Saturday's Ratings - Proof of the impending apocalypse
In ratings news, these were the Top 10 Programs for Saturday October 21 (Source : Tribal Mind).
1. AUSTRALIA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO SHOW (9) 1,296,000
2. SEVEN NEWS - SATURDAY (7) 1,192,000
3. 2006 RUGBY LEAGUE TRI-NATIONS SERIES (9) 1,192,000
4. NATIONAL NINE NEWS - SATURDAY (9) 1,156,000
5. ABC NEWS- SATURDAY (ABC) 1,067,000
6. NEW TRICKS (ABC) 1,026,000
7. TEN NEWS AT FIVE - SATURDAY (10) 931,000
8. THE BILL (ABC) 862,000
9. GREAT COMEDY CLASSICS (7) 821,000*
10. THE LAST DETECTIVE (ABC) 759,00
Look, I now that Saturday is typically a bit of a slow night for television. However, when Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show is the top rating program of the night with almost 1.3 million viewers, then something is wrong. Something is seriously wrong, along the lines of the-apocalypse-is-coming sort of wrong.
I know there wasn’t much to choose from – news, rugby and British cop shows seem to be the stable Saturday night programming – but really, wouldn’t anything have been better than Funniest Home Videos? Couldn’t people have watched a DVD or read a book instead of catapulting that inane drivel into the number one spot? I don’t have much faith in Channel Nine anyway, but they’re never going to put on any good shows while these idiotic but cheap to make ones are watched by the populous. In fact, they’ll probably have Toni Pearon hosting National Nine News next in the hopes of beating Seven’s News offering. And they’ll probably add sound effects into the clips of human misery and natural disasters.
So Australia, no more Mr Nice Guy – prove to the world that we’re not a bunch of yobbos who revel in the opportunity to watch people falling over and injuring themselves. Let’s gain our dignity back, and maybe the programmers will start treating us with some respect.
1. AUSTRALIA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO SHOW (9) 1,296,000
2. SEVEN NEWS - SATURDAY (7) 1,192,000
3. 2006 RUGBY LEAGUE TRI-NATIONS SERIES (9) 1,192,000
4. NATIONAL NINE NEWS - SATURDAY (9) 1,156,000
5. ABC NEWS- SATURDAY (ABC) 1,067,000
6. NEW TRICKS (ABC) 1,026,000
7. TEN NEWS AT FIVE - SATURDAY (10) 931,000
8. THE BILL (ABC) 862,000
9. GREAT COMEDY CLASSICS (7) 821,000*
10. THE LAST DETECTIVE (ABC) 759,00
Look, I now that Saturday is typically a bit of a slow night for television. However, when Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show is the top rating program of the night with almost 1.3 million viewers, then something is wrong. Something is seriously wrong, along the lines of the-apocalypse-is-coming sort of wrong.
I know there wasn’t much to choose from – news, rugby and British cop shows seem to be the stable Saturday night programming – but really, wouldn’t anything have been better than Funniest Home Videos? Couldn’t people have watched a DVD or read a book instead of catapulting that inane drivel into the number one spot? I don’t have much faith in Channel Nine anyway, but they’re never going to put on any good shows while these idiotic but cheap to make ones are watched by the populous. In fact, they’ll probably have Toni Pearon hosting National Nine News next in the hopes of beating Seven’s News offering. And they’ll probably add sound effects into the clips of human misery and natural disasters.
So Australia, no more Mr Nice Guy – prove to the world that we’re not a bunch of yobbos who revel in the opportunity to watch people falling over and injuring themselves. Let’s gain our dignity back, and maybe the programmers will start treating us with some respect.
Observer's Post
Death By Myopia
Chatterpillar
Disappointed in this the second one, however. I think it lacked enough of Terry, whose reactions and antics always bring me a smile - often outight chortling. Hoping to see more of him in the third.
The first episode last week was good, I thought. Showed the squad's boss lady heavy-handedly prejudicing a case, then saying sorry at the end to the man whom she had wrongly targetted as his wife' murderer. A bit of even handedness compared other shows' script-writing, more often making guys the heavy handed ones.