The Strip, Australia’s newest drama by two days was launched last night with 1.45 million viewers tuning into the Gold Coast cop drama helping Nine to win the slot and win the night. This comes off the back of Ten’s new cop drama, Rush which debuted on Tuesday night and Seven’s Packed to the Rafters which was launched last week.
After seeing all three dramas, Rafters has appealed to the most number of people reflected with their two million plus viewers watching on Tuesday night while Rush claimed 1.1 million themselves.
Each drama is led by recognisable Australian actors and introduces a number of new and fresh faces but will each drama have a second season?
The early indication is that Rafters will get the green light for series two after growing their audience in the first two episodes with over two million viewers, Seven look to all ready look to be backing a winner here.
Rush’s debut was softer but also expected against All Saints and in a 9:30PM time slot, there are not as many people watching TV as there are at 8:30. It’s disappointing that Ten has not scheduled Rush at 8:30 on Wednesday or Thursday night although the latter might hurt The Strip.
The op_inion wrote on Wednesday that Rush is the dark horse of the bunch but after seeing The Strip last night, I wish to reiterate my comments that Rush is the darkhorse but The Strip may struggle.
Setting the drama in the Gold Coast has given The Strip some fabulous visuals and Aaron Jeffery plays a stone cold police detective opposite some obvious onscreen (and rumoured off screen) chemistry with Vanessa Gray but this drama was harder to get in to.
Possibly the scripting had something to do with it with some of the dialogue delivered by Bob Morley really made you think about changing the channel. Luckily, The Strip has next to no competition in its schedule because Seven never does well on Thursdays and Ten has Law & Order which should see The Strip complete its first season unless Seven or Ten become more competitive on Thursday nights or the stories improve, you wouldn’t be rushing to commission a second series.
And excuse the pun because Rush should get a boost next week and hopefully by the end of the year we see Ten, like Seven announce that there will be a second series for Rush and Rafters respectively.
I am not writing off The Strip just yet, I hope that I am proved wrong and the storylines pickup next week and The Strip also gets a second series otherwise viewers may choose with their remote control to go elsewhere.
After seeing all three dramas, Rafters has appealed to the most number of people reflected with their two million plus viewers watching on Tuesday night while Rush claimed 1.1 million themselves.
Each drama is led by recognisable Australian actors and introduces a number of new and fresh faces but will each drama have a second season?
The early indication is that Rafters will get the green light for series two after growing their audience in the first two episodes with over two million viewers, Seven look to all ready look to be backing a winner here.
Rush’s debut was softer but also expected against All Saints and in a 9:30PM time slot, there are not as many people watching TV as there are at 8:30. It’s disappointing that Ten has not scheduled Rush at 8:30 on Wednesday or Thursday night although the latter might hurt The Strip.
The op_inion wrote on Wednesday that Rush is the dark horse of the bunch but after seeing The Strip last night, I wish to reiterate my comments that Rush is the darkhorse but The Strip may struggle.
Setting the drama in the Gold Coast has given The Strip some fabulous visuals and Aaron Jeffery plays a stone cold police detective opposite some obvious onscreen (and rumoured off screen) chemistry with Vanessa Gray but this drama was harder to get in to.
Possibly the scripting had something to do with it with some of the dialogue delivered by Bob Morley really made you think about changing the channel. Luckily, The Strip has next to no competition in its schedule because Seven never does well on Thursdays and Ten has Law & Order which should see The Strip complete its first season unless Seven or Ten become more competitive on Thursday nights or the stories improve, you wouldn’t be rushing to commission a second series.
And excuse the pun because Rush should get a boost next week and hopefully by the end of the year we see Ten, like Seven announce that there will be a second series for Rush and Rafters respectively.
I am not writing off The Strip just yet, I hope that I am proved wrong and the storylines pickup next week and The Strip also gets a second series otherwise viewers may choose with their remote control to go elsewhere.
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