Ten’s paid prison cell ‘interview’ with Renae Lawrence delivers ratings bump
Ten Network’s paid-for prison cell interview featuring convicted Australian drug smuggler Renae Lawrence on her time sharing a cell with Schapelle Corby delivered Ten Eyewitness News a ratings bump, while Charlie Pickering’s departure from The Project also saw the last half hour of that show soar, according to OzTam overnight ratings.
The interview, which has been slammed by the Corby family who described the allegations as “fantasy”, first aired in Ten’s news hour at 5pm, with continued coverage in the Project from 6.30pm which also farewelled long-time host Charlie Pickering.
Ten Eyewitness News saw 768,000 metro viewers tune in, compared to 661,000 last Monday, with the audience dropping away for the first half hour of The Project which only had 474,000 viewers but climbed to 774,000 in the last half hour. Last week’s episode climbed to 585,000 for the second half hour. Both shows helping Ten grab an improved 10 per cent audience share.
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Regardless of her blame, if Corby returns to jail because of this interview airing on Ch10, that’s going to be a hell of a weight for the EP to carry round.
So she really said “in the body bag”. Spooky.
@Another Agency ; oh good point, we can’t have news going to air which might have “consequences” can we? Or opinions either, in fact each channel should have an hours blank screen and silence each night.
This is where it ends up when ratings from anywhere are more important than good content, good journalism, good television and programme excellence.
Once we used to talk about a few pulp magazines or T&A tabloids as the only papers that would print this or that kind of rubbish. Now it seems to be fair game, paid for in hard cash, just to boost ratings, albeit for one part of one evening only.
As for MC returning to jail on the strength of it, I think it would be unlikely since it is paid testimony in a commercial setting and hearsay into the bargain. I am no legal expert so I accept that I may be wrong.
@Another Agency Why would Corby be sent back to jail for admitting to the crime for which she was convicted?