it all went downhill the season with the married couple. whatever that was.
Question: How well does Love Island need to do ratings-wise for it to be considered a ‘success’?
I ask this because while I think it’ll do well on 9Now and the social media engagement surrounding the show will be massive, I’m skeptical about how it will perform in the ratings. Part of that is due to how unlike in the UK where the major broadcasters have established their multichannels as destinations where exclusive ‘premium’/original shows can air whereas our networks either haven’t done it or their limited attempts haven’t work (eg; what happened with ScreenPlay on 7mate)
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I am thinking if it does between 200-300k it would be considered a success. The one time BB aired an episode on 9Go! it got over 300k.
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I think Nine will look to the multi-channel key demos, more than total people, especially a younger skewing show like this.
Even if Love Island Australia bombed in total people (like under 100k), if 90% of that was from Under 55s, I reckon Nine execs would still be happy?
I doubt they would be happy with under 100k when they can get double that with Young Sheldon and Big Bang repeats.
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I think it 9 will renew Love Island if it has 250k boardcast viewers watching on Go! (maybe falling as low as 200k if it has a strong 16-39 demo with a strong social media presence) and at the very least 150k on 9Now (I think the UK Show was doing around 100k on 9Now so I would expect a little more than that for our show).
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Will this dent the ratings for The Voice?
If The Voice is struggling to find younger viewers as shown in the demos and skews a little older, isn’t a good thing that this may draw in viewers to it’s multi-channels and catch-up service who may not be watching Nine (or any network currently) at all at the moment?
Just listening to general chatter in my office this morning, there is at least 4-5 people who will be watching this on Sunday when it premiers who generally wouldn’t watch any free-to-air television so my guess is this is the type of viewer Nine would be hoping to attract with this show.
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Trouble in Paradise.
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I really hope this bombs. The only thing I support is them trying a dedicated series on a multi channel. Aside from that it’s the usual casting crap, white, models, starnow.com stuff.
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Well, Last Resort of whatever last year was a spectacular fail and that was a main channel show (or maybe that’s why this is multi-channel - playing it safe?)
So is porn allowed on terrestrial TV in Australia? Only asking because a raunchy version of the show would make for some great viewing 
But if you want porn, why can’t you just watch porn, whenever you want?
Why are we talking about porn?
Indeed. Why are we talking about porn? This is not the Classification thread.
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No diversity in the level of attractiveness either
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All the episodes have been rated MA, so there’s bound to be some raunchy action.
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technically, no, as R and X rated content is not allowed, although Nine’s infomercial channel Extra did have Babe TV some years back but Nine claimed it did not exceed an MA rating:
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