Talkin Bout a ratings hit
Ten has a surprise hit on its hands with Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation pulling in an audience of 1.65m yesterday, making it the top rating TV show of Tuesday night.
The inter-generational quiz show looks set to change the shape of Tuesdays, which so far this year have been dominated by Seven, thanks to Packed To The Rafters, which has now completed its run.
Instead, last night saw only a narrow peaktime victory for Seven, according to OzTam ratings, just 0.2% ahead of Ten.
Good for Ten. Now: can they address the irritating upside-down apostrophe that precedes ’bout?
Oh no. More proof that middle Australia dictates what we see on TV… I’m going home to hug my FOXTEL iQ box.
Torn between our own project and celebrating new good shows on Ten, I thought that A Lion Called Christian achieved a great result given the media and marketing campaign behind the new game show.
…and I believe it’s an Australian concept. Which makes a nice change.
I think Nine dropped the ball during the Easter break when they paused the Underbelly 2 series and did some reruns of it. The viewers could not understand what was going on and simply went elsewhere. What is more, they forgot to come back after Easter; and that’s what caused the drop in the ratings. Ouch! Regarding the Lion, I reckon’ it’s great that it was so close to the XYZ Generation.