The Chase Australia

Television Seven Network
1860

I have always been struck by how Australian players of The Chase take the high offer far less frequently than their British counterparts, and they also take the low offer considerably more.

1861

Would Beat the Chasers work at 5pm for 7? It’s still the chase but a newer format. I know they stopped it because of the name ‘chasers’ but maybe they can rename it and do it?

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1862

Logistically it wouldn’t work. You’d have to have all the chasers in studio every day to film 180ish? episodes. That’s a lot of work. At least now they can film 2/3 episodes at a time and they’re spread out.

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1863

a more engaging format too IMO

but can’t see it happening, would cost a fortune (paying 5-6 talent per episode compared to 2 for regular Chase, and bigger prizemoney)

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1864

Gap with Tipping Point decreased to 104,000 for yesterday’s episode.

Fully expect this to be a one-off.

1865

I thought you were tipping the shift over the next month for TCA to overtake TP?

1866

Yeah we get it Mick

1867

Remember that innocent time when Winning Arvo wasn’t a thing?

That prediction was made then.

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1868

That shouldn’t matter. “Winning Arvo” has been shown that is not affecting the 3pm and 5pm ratings.

1869

Yeah.

Don’t talk about decreasing the gap with TP when the numbers are not even helping.

1870

The result was lower than the previous two Mondays.

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1871

Did TP also go down?

1872

TP was 20k lower than the previous Tuesday.

1873

Per market

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1874

When you look at the above it is not such a tragic tale. Perth wins. Adelaide close. Sydney okay. Melbourne is a decent gap and Brisbane is a wipe out.

It is not as dire when put into perspective - aside from Brisbane of course

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1875

I recall Brisbane being closer (but still a loss) when Seven Gold Coast news was around - canning it was a mistake surely

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1876

You’d have to think so.

1877

Largely because the Aussies screwed up the format by making the cash builder $2k an answer rather than $1k and then didn’t double the high offers in relative terms. You’re more likely to gamble $6k to win $30k than $12k to win $30k.

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1878

Can’t be more right.

It exploded to 193,000 for yesterday. (Corrected below, miscalculated as 216k earlier.)

(Minimal impact on the 6pm bulletin, mind you.)

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1879

The gap was 193k yesterday

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