They must’ve run out of fresh episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man and thought Jaime Somers could get them through to the end of the year. Every second kid at school had one of those Steve Austin dolls with the bionic eye back then.
Missed this from yesterday, but on August 1, 2013, the second part of the gripping Australian crime drama Better Man aired on SBS. This mini-series told the dramatic story of the last Australian man to be executed in Singapore, Van Tuong Nguyen.
3 August 2012 – The Circle aired its final episode from Melbourne studios. In addition to that, it was the last morning talk show being produced from ATV-10 studios. (There were three morning talk shows produced via Melbourne on TEN - Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton (1992- Dec 2005), 9AM with David and Kim (Jan 2006- Dec 2009), The Circle (Feb 2010- Aug 2012).)
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And about 20 years of Morning Magazine, Chit Chat, Roundabout, The Roy Hampson Show, Everyday, Good Morning Melbourne (all basically the same show) before them.
On this day in 1982 TCN-9 airs an episode of The Love Boat featuring Australian talent Graham Kennedy and Alan Fletcher. The episode was amongst those shot in Sydney and around the south pacific the previous year.
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On this day in 2015, Restaurant Revolution premiered on Seven. It did not fare very well in the ratings, need I explain more?
On a personal note, I was lucky enough to visit the Sydney-based restaurant in Parramatta. The food was okay I suppose.
Also on this day in 2008, the final ever episode of Sunday on Channel Nine aired. Budget constraints and poor ratings in Adelaide and Perth were to blame for the show’s axing. It was replaced the following Sunday (10 August 2008) by Sunday AM News, which did not rate very well nationally, except in Melbourne.
Dubious claim re ratings in just two capitals I’d have thought, any citation for that claim?
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I would have thought Sunday would have rated well on the East Coast at the time of its axing, especially in Sydney and Melbourne.
This show was bumped to 9:30pm Thursday nights (IIRC) following dwindling ratings on Tuesday night. what was ratings like when RR aired on Thursday at 9:30pm.
No idea, but I reckon the ratings may have deteriorated further as Seven burned off the show. The same thing happened to The Mole in 2013.
The SMH article used as the citation for cancellation makes zero mention of Adelaide, Perth or east coast ratings, only a national figure.
Like I said, a dubious claim. Perhaps as a regular editor of that Wikipedia page, you could fix it up.
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Restaurant Revolution debuted to 676,000 on a Tuesday. On the same night Nine debuted Hot Plate that got 782,000. On the Wednesday it was 515,000 (7) to 713,000 (9) and Thursday 415,000 to 666,000. Hot Plate was back the next week with 943,000 on the Monday but Res Rev was dumped to Thursday where it got 425,000. The following week 312,000. The next 3 eps were below 300k. Hot Plate rated between 760k and 950k. Restaurant Rev rated best in Perth and worst in Melbourne where it was beaten by SBS on the first Thursday.
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What did Ellen Fanning, former Nine reporter say on the final minutes of the last show?
I didn’t watch that final show but I would have thought she and a few hosts would have said their thanks to the audiences who’d been watching the show since it premiered in 1981.
Sunday AM show was a short lived show and was cancelled a few episodes due to soft ratings. What Show was it being replaced by?
Today: Weekend Edition launched in January 2009 and then it added an unannounced, surprise Saturday edition on 2 May that year.
Then in July 2009 it was rebranded as “Weekend Today”; the edge it had against Weekend Sunrise at the time was that it also aired on Saturdays as opposed to the latter which only aired on Sundays (though they would add a Saturday edition in 2010).
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Then-Nine CEO David Gyngell said that Channel 9 will launch a New weekend today bulletin on Sunday in order to challenge against rivals Sunrise. Cameron Williams And Leila McKinnon were the first presenters on this weekend bulletin. (It firstly aired on 1 feb 2009 and went up against Andrew okeefe and Sam Armytage (Correct me if I’m wrong)
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10 years today channel GO! had lunched the channel promos
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They had lots of special guests for their final show
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Sunday was a great program… pure class!
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