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July 29, 2021 10:11
Three sessions of Seven’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage broke the million metro viewer mark on Wednesday, helping push the network to a 52.3% share across its free-to-air channels.
The Night session, featuring swimming, football and hockey, was #1 in entertainment with 1.364 million metro viewers, and topped all key advertising demos. It followed the Evening session which attracted 1.276 million as the Boomers beat Italy in basketball.
THRILLER IN TOKYO.
The @BasketballAus Boomers come away with the W after a huge 4th quarter from the squad to stay unbeaten in their #Tokyo2020 campaign
Jock Landale was BIG with 18 points and 7 rebounds #GoBoomers#Basketballpic.twitter.com/FU2AbMoNyI
The Bachelor records lowest ever launch ratings as Farmer finale tops non-news
July 22, 2021 10:22
The ninth season of Ten’s The Bachelor brought in its lowest metro ratings of any premiere episode to date, with an average of 482,000 viewers tuning in to the season launch featuring pilot Jimmy Nicholson.
Last season’s launch brought in 681,000 metro viewers, while the 2019 launch had 828,000 metro viewers. The program’s first-ever Australian season was previously its lowest launch, with 669,000.
The Bachelor still managed to win the 16-39 advertising demo, while 18-19 and 25-54 were taken out by Nine News.
A spokesperson for Network Ten said: “First Officer Jimmy’s journey has only just begun.
Arm Yourself campaign. Source: Australian Government Department of Health.
The Australian government’s new national vaccination advertisements have been described as exciting as a bowl of leftover cereal, with all the urgency of a stubbed toe.
“It will be very difficult for Shaun Micallef to send this ad up,” said Opposition leader Anthony Albanese when asked about them on Sunday morning television.
He’s not wrong.
The “Arm Yourself” campaign featuring various upper arms showing a bandaid and iterations of the same message to arm “yourself”, “your family”, “your community” could easily come from a presentation by Karsten Leith, the kravat-wearing marketing consultant in the ABC comedy series Utopia.
Francis Greenslade: more than just ‘the idiot in the funny hat’
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“Normally I’m playing the idiot brother, who comes in in the second act with a funny hat,” says Francis Greenslade of his stage acting career.
“I’ve always thought of myself as a great tragic actor,” he adds, half-seriously. “Every comic thinks they’re the most brilliant serious actor in the world, but they’ve never had the chance.”
Theatre Works’
Credit:Josh Wayn
There’s a dry wit behind the lugubrious face. We’re having a coffee in Southbank before he heads off to the ABC to check in with the