Tough night for Ten as Nine wins Monday
It was a poor Monday night for Ten, which failed to get any shows into the top ten most watched and saw less than 1.1m tune in for the heavily promoted return of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?.
The Rove McManus-presented show tried to make the most of the rapidly waning Masterchef effect with food critic Matt Preston as the first celebrity guest. But according to preliminary metro TV ratings from OzTam, the show was beaten into second place by an episode of Nine’s Two And A Half Men. However, it was ahead of Seven’s How I Met Your Mother.
Meanwhile, Ten’s The 7pm Project entered its second week with an average audience of 764,000. This was well behind last Monday’s debut of 1.3m, but a little ahead of Friday’s 656,000.
Ten had a poor night across the board, finishing fourth in Sydney behind the ABC.
By the way, having seen The 7pm Project last Monday, then not again until the Friday night, I really hope it gets given some time to bed in.
Based just on Friday’s episode, I thought they really had something. The hosts are starting to gel a little. And the high tempo dash round the five cities had a real start-the-weekend feel to it.
It’s not perfect yet, but I’m (in a very small minority) a fan.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
T7PP is certainly slicker, but a slick turd is still a turd. They would have been better off doing a tv version of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r Also, weeknightly comedy is a recipe for writer burnout.