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Title: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: RichInSydney on May 30, 2012, 07:27:32 PM
Episode 1 pulled in an average of 886,000 viewers. Okay its not over the million mark, like last season, but its on a later timeslot and finished at 10:30pm. It only lost about 150k viewers after Australia's Got Talent finished so I guess its not a bad result.

Source: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/05/wednesday-30-may-2012.html
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on May 31, 2012, 01:57:04 AM
Well at least 7 won the night (thanks to AGT and TARAU)
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on May 31, 2012, 09:20:29 AM
Well I think the timeslot prevented it from taking a million viewers. They really need to push it up to 8:30pm at the latest if they want to pull in more viewers! ;)
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on May 31, 2012, 06:34:29 PM
When we get to hour episodes the ratings will pick up(as it will be a shorter timeslot which means less people will stop watching towards the end on acount of it going too late for them which means higher rattings).

Edit: I found out that next episode will be an hour. Its wierd because the first 3 or eps were hour and halfs last season.

Next season they shold realiy put it in a good timeslot with a good lead in on before it.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: RichInSydney on June 06, 2012, 06:35:42 PM
Episode 2 ratings remained steady at 883,000.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 07, 2012, 06:42:30 AM
You do have to consider that TARAU dose not have a good lead in. H/A came 4th in the 7pm time slot and AGT barliy got to the 1,000,000 and TARAU loss in its timeslot by only 40,000 viewers (insanily watching a very bad drama called Offspring on ch10) and 7 won the night.

Bad lead in + lossing its timeslot by a 40,000 margin = 7 should try a better timeslot becasue the show has alot of potental.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on June 07, 2012, 09:40:24 AM
I think Seven just needs to bump it up to 8:30pm, or maybe even 7:30pm - that would definitely attract heaps more viewers for sure. :tup:

I think Seven's whole scheduling is a bit of a joke really. :crazy: They've got those border security types of shows on in the 7:30pm timeslots at least twice a week, and anything worth watching is bumped back... :(
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 08, 2012, 08:26:39 AM
Just looking at the tv guide for thursday and by the looks of it AGT and TARAUboth dont have that much rival shows in their timeslots . If 7 were smart they would keep this move periment.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Best Loser on June 08, 2012, 03:00:57 PM
What is being shown now in the place of when the first season aired?
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: georgiapeach on June 08, 2012, 04:35:13 PM
Changing the times/days next week sure won't help. :groan:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 08, 2012, 07:46:41 PM
What is being shown now in the place of when the first season aired?
I think its revenge , but it would be suicide to put it on mondays because of the voice on ch9
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on June 12, 2012, 06:35:09 AM
Changing the times/days next week sure won't help. :groan:

Well it's only changing in New South Wales, Queensland and ACT I think, and that's because of the big State of Origin game on Wednesday on Channel Nine, which takes a lot of viewers, so it's smart to change it there to avoid that game, although it's totally gonna confuse people and kill ratings, lol. :lol:

What is being shown now in the place of when the first season aired?
I think its revenge , but it would be suicide to put it on mondays because of the voice on ch9

Yeah, Revenge is on there, and I'm pretty sure it's rating really well. If/When The Voice ends, putting TARAus before/after Revenge would be a smart move for ratings! :tup:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: SuperTux on June 18, 2012, 09:07:35 AM
The viewership of EP3 was 715,000 according to Wikipedia. :res:

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Episode 3, aired on 13 June in most areas and 14 June in New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Terrtory and because of that, it is unknown how many people watched the show in each area as this episode was not in the top 20.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: bottle on June 19, 2012, 12:39:00 AM
The viewership of EP3 was 715,000 according to Wikipedia. :res:

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Episode 3, aired on 13 June in most areas and 14 June in New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Terrtory and because of that, it is unknown how many people watched the show in each area as this episode was not in the top 20.
It;s so low. just because of 7  :tantrum and BTW in my country Georgia if amazing race starts (eh my dream :(( ) it will definetely have much more rating than there in Australia. Show's are working here so well. BTW last year Georgia's got a talent was unbelievably popular. E.g from 100 TV-s 96 was watching this  :o  and smt like from 4 million people 2 million was watching this. and BTW it was airing at 22:00. and every kid was watchin' it. so i don't get why aussies don't like TAR australia as much as americans  :duno:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 19, 2012, 01:48:24 AM
The viewership of EP3 was 715,000 according to Wikipedia. :res:

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Episode 3, aired on 13 June in most areas and 14 June in New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Terrtory and because of that, it is unknown how many people watched the show in each area as this episode was not in the top 20.
It;s so low. just because of 7  :tantrum and BTW in my country Georgia if amazing race starts (eh my dream :(( ) it will definetely have much more rating than there in Australia. Show's are working here so well. BTW last year Georgia's got a talent was unbelievably popular. E.g from 100 TV-s 96 was watching this  :o  and smt like from 4 million people 2 million was watching this. and BTW it was airing at 22:00. and every kid was watchin' it. so i don't get why aussies don't like TAR australia as much as americans  :duno:
The top 20 is day by day. 715,000 would be in the top 20 if it aired in all states on the same day.
Yeah, Revenge is on there, and I'm pretty sure it's rating really well. If/When The Voice ends, putting TARAus before/after Revenge would be a smart move for ratings! :tup:
This will happen.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/06/airdate-mrs-browns-boys-bumped-the-amazing-race-australia.html

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The Amazing Race Australia to a new timeslot of 7:30pm Monday from next week, no doubt relieved that The Voice has ended its dream run.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on June 19, 2012, 08:21:34 AM
Yeah, Revenge is on there, and I'm pretty sure it's rating really well. If/When The Voice ends, putting TARAus before/after Revenge would be a smart move for ratings! :tup:
This will happen.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/06/airdate-mrs-browns-boys-bumped-the-amazing-race-australia.html

Cool, I guessed something right! :o I wasn't speaking nonsense after all! :lol:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: SuperTux on June 19, 2012, 09:06:47 AM
Will EP4 get a viewership over 1 million? :)
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on June 20, 2012, 08:53:12 AM
I'm not sure how well Episode 4 did, but I hope that the time shift for next week will get our ratings up! :hoot: :hoot:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: tarflyonthewall on June 20, 2012, 07:19:33 PM
Episode 4 only got 665,000. Australia's Got Talent absolutely TANKED in the ratings, and the only other major network with a show starting at 9pm last night was the ABC. And its 8:30 show Randling has consistently underperformed, so I doubt many viewers were picked up from it.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: RichInSydney on June 20, 2012, 11:37:41 PM
Yeh this season hasnt been help with all the changes in dates and the bad lead in from Australia's Got "No" Talent. I think it should do better on Monday, earlier timeslot. There are a lot of younger viewer too so lets hope it goes well.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: howie_2010 on June 21, 2012, 12:02:52 AM
I'd put the blame on 7's awful marketing push for the season as well. The first season was marketed well and advertised thoroughly. It drew in viewers because it focused on the "amazing" part of the race. This season they focused on "hey look at the stupid people we got" which, after more than 10 years of reality TV doesn't interest people anymore, and they didn't advertise it as much.

The whole "let's only advertise an air date a week before the premiere" thing that Australian TV is apparently doing now didn't help either.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 21, 2012, 01:16:21 AM
I think it's a domeno effect starting with Home and Away.H/A came 4th in the time slot.
Yeh this season hasnt been help with all the changes in dates and the bad lead in from Australia's Got "No" Talent.
Your right
Last year TARAU gets a bad lead in too, but not as bad as this year.

This might sound crazy but next year they should edit each leg in to 2 episodes (like TARI) and put in at 7 pm because most realrty shows in Australia strip their show across the week and they get good rattings (MKR,The Block, MC,TBL and even all the way back to BB)
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: tarflyonthewall on June 21, 2012, 01:44:30 AM
MKR isn't a stripped reality show.

Part of the problem is that so much has been edited out that it's hard to follow. I appreciate that they've chosen an episode length and are sticking to it, but... they clearly picked the wrong length. Even the editors had trouble last night - the teams  evwho were "behind" Kym & Donna when they quit kept being captioned as though Kym & Donna were still in front of them. And unless I'm very much mistaken, I think they might have even accidentally omitted the cops arriving at the Pit Stop.

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I'd put the blame on 7's awful marketing push for the season as well. The first season was marketed well and advertised thoroughly. It drew in viewers because it focused on the "amazing" part of the race. This season they focused on "hey look at the stupid people we got" which, after more than 10 years of reality TV doesn't interest people anymore, and they didn't advertise it as much.

Not even so much that they showed the teams - they did that last season too, with Sam & Renae, the farmers, the muslims, FBA, and the Big W ladies. The problem this season is they picked the wrong teams to advertise. Out of the five teams they advertised the only one I would have picked in their position was Sue & Teresa. The sisters should have gotten an ad. Joseph and Grace should have gotten an ad. As much as they would have made it all about the INSPURASHON!!!11!1!111!!!!1!one!!1!, Sticky and Sam should have gotten an ad. And after the main criticism last year was "the cast is too white", the cousins definitely should have gotten an ad, poor finish be damned.

And yes. We need more notice for an airdate. Especially since it's not a regular timeslot.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Aussie on June 21, 2012, 03:45:34 AM
Part of the problem is that so much has been edited out that it's hard to follow. I appreciate that they've chosen an episode length and are sticking to it, but... they clearly picked the wrong length. Even the editors had trouble last night - the teams  evwho were "behind" Kym & Donna when they quit kept being captioned as though Kym & Donna were still in front of them. And unless I'm very much mistaken, I think they might have even accidentally omitted the cops arriving at the Pit Stop

I totally agree. I'm really annoyed that they are editing so much out of it, I don't care if the task is a failure and takes all of two seconds I'd still want to see it.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on June 21, 2012, 04:02:16 AM
Yeah, I completely agree that it has been way too rushed and confusing and the subtitles yesterday were just way off throughout most of the episode.

But it did show the cops checking into the Pit Stop. :tup: (Although in Ep 3, two teams checked into the episode without a subtitle for their results... :res:)
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: balfour on June 21, 2012, 08:28:10 AM
Yeah, They've seemed to gone to 50 minutes of material instead of the full hour usually seen last season.

As mentioned, this has had an effect on editing. They're leaving a lot out. I think TAR makes do with even shorter time, something like 42-44 minutes. Although even TAR's editing in the past 2 or so season have been substandard

One of the  things I instantly liked about TARaus was that they put more of it on the screen. But the editing team just seems crunched now.

BTW it's never a good  sign when a network keeps shuffling a show around to different timeslots. Bonehead decisions.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: howie_2010 on June 26, 2012, 12:16:03 AM
The shift in timeslot worked!  :hearts:

971,000 viewers!
             
Sydney: 245,000
Melbourne: 318,000
Brisbane: 142,000
Adelaide: 125,000
Perth: 142,000

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/blogs/the-tribal-mind/the-ratings-race-rinehart-really-rates-20120625-20x7v.html
 
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on June 26, 2012, 01:07:39 AM
It was a good move in the timeslot.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: tarauslover on June 26, 2012, 01:28:28 AM
Is it enough to keep the show going and getting renewed for another season though? I'd think at the 7:30 timeslot they'd be at least hoping to hit the 1 million mark, but I guess that's pretty close. Also Home and Away which was before that had a lower total (800k or something) which is lower than its usual million so I'm assuming it was just a bad night to draw in viewers from H&A. Revenge did astonishingly well as usual though (almost 1.4mil).
On a side note 7 Casting did post on their facebook page to be on the lookout for any casting announcements so they obviously anticipate a 3rd season, just have to wait for more promising numbers and this is a step in the right direction.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: BayBay on July 02, 2012, 11:15:52 PM
Episode 6 - 1.1mil  :conf: :hearts: :yess:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: howie_2010 on July 03, 2012, 12:08:28 AM
Episode 6 - 1.1mil  :conf: :hearts: :yess:
:hrt: :keeta: If it keeps above the 1 mil threshold, we might get a third season!

As much as I hate time slot changes, I reckon it could benefit from being shifted to 8:30 now that Revenge is done so that it doesn't clash with Masterchef. I was flicking back and forth just to make sure my precious Amina didn't go home on MasterChef last night.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on July 03, 2012, 04:29:58 AM
Episode 6 - 1.1mil  :conf: :hearts: :yess:
:hrt: :keeta: If it keeps above the 1 mil threshold, we might get a third season!

As much as I hate time slot changes, I reckon it could benefit from being shifted to 8:30 now that Revenge is done so that it doesn't clash with Masterchef. I was flicking back and forth just to make sure my precious Amina didn't go home on MasterChef last night.

So happy with the rise in viewers! :yess:

Actually, Revenge isn't done yet - it still has three more episodes to go until it finishes, but I personally like the 7:30 timeslot because it is more accessible for some viewers, although personally I'd prefer 8:30. :lol:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: tarflyonthewall on July 03, 2012, 04:50:00 AM
Don't forget the Olympics start in three weeks, so it'll be interesting to see what Seven does with this show since it definitely won't rate for those two episodes during the games.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: AR FAN on July 03, 2012, 11:41:00 AM
Episode 6 - 1.1mil  :conf: :hearts: :yess:
Wow, thats almost double the viewers from episode 4!  :gj:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Kiwi Jay on July 03, 2012, 10:27:06 PM
The 9.30 slot was awful. I think this Monday 7.30, or Monday 8.30 timeslot should be where it stays. It is where the race is most at home and can easily pull viewers. I mean 1.1 million and 971 thousand compared to only 691 and 750 thousand is a lot more, and that is the threshold it needs to stay at to get it's much deserved third season!
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: kevin2012 on July 09, 2012, 09:20:45 PM
Episode 7 had 1,023,000 views. :yess:

We're still over the million mark, I smell a third season! :hearts:

http://www.smh.com.au/opi...irs--20120709-21qhc.html
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on July 10, 2012, 01:30:37 AM
9 th for the day and 3rd in the demos
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Jobby on July 12, 2012, 11:13:18 AM
The show is so good it deserved to go over the million mark!!!!! :wohoo:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on July 16, 2012, 05:56:29 PM
Today were expecing a drop in viewers because of new TV rubish , i mean show The Shire on 10

May God help you if you watched The Shire.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Aussie on July 16, 2012, 06:07:25 PM
Today were expecing a drop in viewers because of new TV rubish , i mean show The Shire on 10

May God help you if you watched The Shire.

ikr. ew.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on July 16, 2012, 07:23:20 PM
The resaults are in

913,000 across the 5 cities
252,000 Sydney
302,000 Melbourne
138,000 Brisbane
106,000 Adelaide
115,000 Adelaide

Came 10th in the night geting the same amount of viewer The shire but beat the shire in all markits except for sydney.
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: tarflyonthewall on July 17, 2012, 12:37:56 AM
Worth noting, though, that it was also up against an episode of The Voice US (which has been shunted into the schedule three nights a week so Nine can run it into the ground some more).
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: Glamazon Racer on July 17, 2012, 03:45:51 AM
Today were expecing a drop in viewers because of new TV rubish , i mean show The Shire on 10

May God help you if you watched The Shire.

ikr. ew.

I just watched that... biggest waste of half an hour of my life... :stare
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: supah on July 17, 2012, 04:45:56 AM
Today were expecing a drop in viewers because of new TV rubish , i mean show The Shire on 10

May God help you if you watched The Shire.

 :groan:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: supah on August 14, 2012, 06:05:19 PM
Episode 10 (Monday 13 August) - 787,000
Episode 11 (Tuesday 14 August) - 896,000
Individual state numbers to come soon
That's a solid jump!  :hoot:  Hope the Grand Final can pull over 900,000 or even hit the million mark!  :conf:
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on August 15, 2012, 01:26:44 AM
Episode 10 (Monday 13 August) - 787,000
Episode 11 (Tuesday 14 August) - 896,000
Individual state numbers to come soon
That's a solid jump!  :hoot:  Hope the Grand Final can pull over 900,000 or even hit the million mark!  :conf:
You also have to consider that for both ep 11 and 12 it was up against the new and not very improved BB on 9 which scored 1.6 and 1.3 on Monday and Tuesday
Title: Re: TAR Australia 2 - TV Ratings
Post by: theamazingracer21 on August 15, 2012, 07:01:37 PM
The finale scored 976,000

Sydney 296,000
Melbourne 277,000
Brisbane 171,000
Adelaide 117,000
Perth 115,000

The show came 2nd in the 7:30- 8:30 timeslot to BB  :eww :eww but TARAU beat BB in the Perth and Adelaide markets.

TARAU the came in First in the final 1/2 hour in a rattings race just as clouse as last nights final moments on the show (on 10 new Drama Puberty Blues got 925,000 and on 9 The Farmer Wants a Wife got 909,000).