Showing H and A has problems too - not only is it just 30 minutes per night - Seven would need to air 9 extra episodes each week to fill the Big Brother void - it also gets demos almost as bad as Big Brother.
They also need to consider sponsors - how many more KFC feasts are there this season?
Including tonight, there are five episodes of BB until Queenâs Birthday Monday (June 13) when Sevenâs primetime schedule will get the AFL lead-in (Collingwood v Melbourne) especially in Melbourne and Adelaide. If the showâs ratings donât improve by then, Seven will have no choice but to bump BB to 7mate or 7flix.
Or just air it at 8.30/9.00 after whatever other filler they can find. Nine did this in its final season on the network in the showâs previous incarnation.
Is it too late for a last minute editing at BB? Theyâd obviously still have all the footage so maybe theyâll get the message that the viewers are after more interaction and less strategising. Iâm sure thereâs lots of amusing things happening in the house that weâre not seeing.
Itâs possible but would be very costly and likely have little impact on the ratings at this stage.
I donât think that general re-editing would make any difference at this late stage - viewers have already made up their minds. However they could try condensing the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes into one - as there is no eviction on Tuesday. Then they would only be exposed to the show on 2 nights of the week. Then reschedule Wednesdays - even just run Britainâs Got Talent at 7.30 (or not).
73K lead over Nine Melbourne⌠this is massive for Seven News.
For this climate though, thereâs the potential thatâd backfire further and pull 100k or less and drag down Sevenâs shares each night. A m/c (as sponsors have been signed) and 7Plus proposition only would probably be less risky?
Any idea what has caused this turnaround? Hitch has always been very popular in Melbourne so Iâm surprised people are now moving to Ch7.
The Sunday bulletin benefited from a huge lead-in audience watching the Collingwood v Carlton blockbuster. Maybe viewers liked what they saw and are sticking with Seven.
A number of factors.
One contributor - The Chase had a big lead into the news in Melbourne. Looking at the peak audience (rather than the average) of The Chase - it was the number 3 program in Melbourne - partly explained by viewers tuning in to the news
And Family Guy, which is basically the Border Security and Highway Patrol of 7mate / 7flix currently.
Iâm pretty confident in saying they will never replace Big Brother with Family Guy.
Thereâs no sense of excitement any more. BB needs to have live elements. Same with The Voice. Letâs hope Idol is live whenever it finally makes it to air.
I have repeatedly said 7 needs a current affairs show (The Project /Latest style) at 7.00, and should package H&A as two one-hour episodes at 7.30 Wednesday and Thursday all year.
Plus itâs very repetitive. Every single episode - Survivor style challenge, nominations, 30 minutes of nothingness as the nominees attempt to persuade others, Sonia robotically reading the autocue and someone getting evicted.
It is also quite possibly one of the most addictive regular spots on television, The Final Chase (the few minutes leading up to 5:59pm news), where the Chaser has to try and âchaseâ the amount of steps the team was able to generate from correct answers in the immediately preceding segment, often going right down to the final second, sometimes involving a few twists like come-from-behind wins.
Agree about Big Brother but I can see SAS perhaps coming back (definitely not at the beginning of the year though) considering it does decently on BVOD.
Your hypothesis doesnât make sense. If what you outlined was true, Celebrity Apprentice on Nine wouldnât be all but dead either while MasterChef wouldnât be struggling despite this season featuring popular past contestants in an attempt to revive its ratings.
From what Iâve seen and heard many share a consensus that Nine and 10 put in effort and do good shows with big budgets and flair (though thatâs debatable at times). Seven on the other hand are perceived to be âcheap and tackyâ.
Just look through the MediaSpy forum and other sites like TVTonight where thereâs a lot of talk about how Survivor is high quality from production perspectives and how Masterchef is just the top of the crop (which is true to a certain extent but itâs been glow glow and more glow for the show). Not sure if itâs a general consensus or direction of media websites but itâs what it is.