Struggle Street falls away for SBS but still outshines House Rules and Reno Rumble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkulZ_BY3CI
SBS saw the audiences for controversial documentary Struggle Street fall away last night as the broadcaster aired episodes two and three back-to-back from 8.30pm.
The combined episodes failed to reach the 935,000 who tuned in for last week’s opener, but still attracted a healthy 828,000 metro viewers to make it the eighth most-watched show of the evening.
SBS had fast-tracked the documentary by airing episodes two and three back-to-back last night to capitalise on interest around the show generated by a rush of press coverage.
My issue is not with the content of the program which shows clearly the effects of social breakdown through drugs and wonderfully shows the victories of people rising above others and not falling into the same cycle.
But I have an enormous issue that through watching Ep 2&3 and using google search and google maps I was able to correctly locate the address of the Kennedy family. I consider this an absolute disgrace in regards to the creation of this program and is the most basic of post production practices.
Number plates were blurred, but I don’t have access to the RTA database.
Producers of this program should be ashamed with this dismal effort. It is on par with a year 7 student film and before the producers look to blame anyone remember that you hired them.
If you don’t think it’s a big deal, then consider that there could be streams of people outside your house each Friday and Saturday night for the next few months taking selfless, or worse.
Perhaps you may like to check the audience shares again. Apparently the shares posted initially are consolidated shares for last Wednesday.
Hi Johnson
Thanks for that. The numbers provided to us were incorrect. The story has now been updated with the correct figures.
Cheers
Steve – Mumbrella