Viewers can’t watch Kevin Can Wait

Tim Burrowes

December 14, 2016 10:02

Not a single TV show reached a metro audience above 1m on Tuesday night, as the free-to-air networks’ summer schedule sent viewers elsewhere. kevin-can-wait

Every one of the seven most watched programs of the night were news and current affairs, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Seven News, which averaged 936,000 metro viewers from 6:00pm to 6:30pm, was the most watched program. Nine News averaged 839,000 in the same time slot.

However, in Sydney, Nine News came out on top, by 214,000 viewers to Seven News’ 200,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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4 COMMENTS

Harold Dyson 14 Dec 16

Personally I love Kevin James & his new TV series Kevin Can Wait. Kevin James along with every other brilliant actor and actress on the show has put a smile on my face along with huge laughs every single Monday Night since the TV show aired it’s pilot episode. I sure hope the views go up & I even suggest and encourage more viewers because the show is a giant box of laughs. Even after years of hard work with The King of Queens, Kevin James still have the moves, laughs and joy that TV has to offer. I only wish I could be on the cast of Kevin Can Wait. Would be a dream come true.

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Joe Sperando 15 Dec 16

Kevin james is a genius….he is a true artist…..what a lifetime honor it would be to meet him…..he is the only humor on tv…….he could certainly give lessons to all the ridiculously boring programs we are forced to watch each week…..GO KEVIN !

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Anonymous 18 Dec 16

kevin can wait rocks

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Matt 5 Jan 17

Kevin can wait is amazing. I love his old show The King Of Queens and I was so excited when I heard his return. There are little easter eggs in the new show that hints at the old show. I watch The King Of Queens almost every day and it never gets old. That’s how I feel with Kevin Can Wait. It’s hilarious and just refreshing. I hope it has a season two because it deserves it. I don’t care what Australians think of it. They should just be happy we allow them to receive American television. Their opinions and ratings are as useful as a boat on land. No one cares about what they think LOL anyways, it’s very rare for a show to make me laugh and keep my interest and Kevin Can Wait has delivered on both of those. There better be a season two or my three million subscribers and I will boycott that tv station. Thank you.

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