The Ashes on Gem beats all reality shows with Restaurant Revolution losing more viewers
Seven’s Restaurant Revolution has continued to shed viewers in its third outing, dropping by 39 per cent since its launch on Tuesday evening to post a metro audience of 415,000 last night.
The new reality format was comprehensively trounced in its timeslot with The Ashes on Gem pulling the biggest non-news audience of the evening with 775,000 viewers from 7.30pm, with the Australian team toiling against England and securing its second highest ever audience share.
It squeezed out episode two of The Bachelor which slid to 739,000 metro viewers after grabbing 846,000 on debut the evening before however it did win across the key advertising demographics.
Nine’s new franchise The Hotplate also saw a mini-collapse to 656,000 viewers at 7.30pm, having pulled 713,000 the night before and 784,000 on launch.
What you don’t see in the above figures in that “The Bachelor” won all key demos.
18-49, 25-54 and 16-39.
Hi Gary – that’s covered in the line “however it did win across the key advertising demographics”.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
More like Restaurant in Receivership the way things are going
Fascinating watching the excitement at shows that fail to even crack a million. Fragmentation is really starting to bite.
Once upon a time when our population was much smaller, the champagne corks were only popped when you hit that magic million mark.
It goes to show the poor state of network TV when garbage like the Bachelor is being celebrated for hitting 739,000!!!
The figure for The Ashes would be 775,002 if only NINE would give Foxtel satellite customers access to the channel.
Hopefully after the second time this has happened this year – and Channel TEN has won by default – Seven and Nine will finally realise how stupid putting almost identical shows up against each other in the same timeslot really is.
Tom, I don’t understand. I am on Foxtel satellite and am watching the Ashes right now live on Gem (209) – Aussies 8-235. If the bowlers can get us to 300 it could get interesting.
Are you on an Austar box, iQ2 or iQ3?