It’s Thumbs up for Two and A Half Men and Hole in the Wall

Commercial television gauges its success by ratings and this morning Nine would be smiling with the news that last night, Wednesday 6th August a brand new episode of Two and A Half Men was the nations most watched television program with 1.64 million viewers and their new gameshow, Hole in the Wall finished third and won it's slot capturing 1.56 million viewers nationally.

This is a big win and a strategic victory for Nine who had competition from Seven, Ten and the ABC with the Seven launching Make Me A Supermodel hosted by the glamorous Jennifer Hawkins but the program finished at Number 13 for the night with only 1.07 million viewers narrowly beating two hours of So You Think You Can Dance (American version) with 1.05 million viewers.

Nine won the night which read:

Nine 28.4%
Seven 27%
Ten 20.1%
ABC 19.7%
SBS 4.8 %

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Earlier this year, the op-inion questioned Nine’s decision to continually try and find Two and A Half Men a home after many attempts and poor ratings. Well I conceed and I become a johnny-come-lately because over the past few months this show has grown on me and I also find it very funny.

It’s no Seinfeld or Friends but it is a close substitute and the best American comedy on our television screens. Give it a go and obviously more people are giving the show a go with the 7PM weeknight repeats providing strong opposition to Seven’s Home and Away with Men winning the timeslot a few nights a week.

Home and Away has been forced to seen a number of new characters enter the Bay after the departure of Kate Ritchie, Mark Furze and Indiana Evans. After Sally’s estranged brother Miles (Josh Quong Tart) joined the show, he was followed by a raft of new faces including, Roman (Conrad Coleby) who brought daughter Nicole (Tessa James), new police woman Charlie Buckton (Esther Anderson), her sister Ruby (Rebecca Breeds), their father occasionally appears on the show with new wife, Home and Away veteran Morag (Corneilla Frances) plus Phuket refugee Jai (Jordan Rodrigues).

With six new regular cast members in six months, audiences have had to watch new characters and new story lines develop whilst Two and A Half Men has slowly been stealing some of the audience. Ten has also provided little challenge in the 7PM slot since So You Think You Can Dance and The Biggest Loser finished, now placing repeats of Friends against winning repeats of Two and A Half Men.

Last nights success of Hole in the Wall is not a surprise given the high ratings that Wipeout has been receiving. The shows objective is quite simple, get through the obscure and difficult holes in the wall or be subjected to falling in the pool.

Sounds simple enough but entertaining when you place attractive women in figure hugging space suits up against men who make the suits look far to small and the holes impossible to fit through so when contact is made the wall breaks and they are subjected to falling in the pool.

Nine will be excited by the success of Hole in the Wall and Two and A Half Men last night as the network gears up for a post-Olympic stampede in order to finish the year as well as they started.