Sunday, September 14, 2008

Game, Set and Match... Seven




Unless Nine can pull the metaphoric rabbit out of a hat and find a bunch of new shows that will somehow miraculously make everyone switch over from Seven to Nine, then we can call it now, Seven will win 2008.

The only other way Nine might win the year is if Seven’s television transmitter burnt down and we could no one could get any signal on their television. The likelihood of that happening is well…

Why do we bother to speculate?

Packed to the Rafters, City Homicide, Criminal Minds, Border Security, The Force, RSPCA Animal Rescue, Medical Emergency, Find My Family, Crash Investigation Unit, Seven News, Today Tonight, All Saints, The Outdoor Room and even Dancing with the Stars produced very good and winnable results last week for Seven.

Seven have the formula and it doesn’t look like changing while Nine’s start to 2008 couldn’t have been better with Underbelly and Gordon Ramsay showing the network the way a long with David Attenbrough.

Now Ramsay’s latest instalment of Kitchen Nightmares has been bumped after only one episode and the Attenbrough specials appear to run out of steam.

McLeod’s Daughters has also been relegated to summertime as Nine is turning to new sci-fi series Fringe this Wednesday to hopefully be the saviour. It may not work with their last sci-fi series being The Sarah Connor Chronicles and that didn’t work out.

Seven won last week with 29.9% of the audience share from Nine (25.4%), Ten (20.6%), ABC (18.9%) and SBS (5.3%).

Seven had all of the first nine of the weeks most watched tv shows with Two and A Half Men being channel Nine’s best. Domestic Blitz and 60 Minutes which have dominated for Nine to date returned softer ratings against the The Outdoor Room and Dancing with the Stars, plus don’t forget Australian Idol.

Another week, another win for Seven while Nine remain upbeat about Fringe this week. Will it be the first new American drama to reverse the trend of the other ailing US dramas?

Tune in and check it out yourself, Wednesday 8:30PM on Nine.

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