Did any readers catch The Bachelorette on Ten last night? Didn’t think so, as not that many did across the country — 695,000 tuned in nationally, against the 797,000 for the debut a week ago and 688,000 for the second episode. So it has quickly found its feet (in audience numbers) and nothing else. It was still the top program in 16 to 39s, but the audience numbers are not convincing. Nine won 16 to 49s and 25 to 54s, and was neck and neck with Seven in total people and the main channels.
The ABC finished in front of Ten on the main channels thanks to good figures for Hard Quiz (974,000) and Mad As Hell with 948,000. Manifest on Nine lost altitude — 949,000 for the debut a week ago, 757,000 last night. That’s a 20% slump. Fasten seat belts, turbulence ahead?
In regional markets Seven’s 6pm News averaged 477,000, Seven News/Today Tonight had 470,000, The Block had 393,000, Home and Away had 379,000 and Beach Cops had 346,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (29.2%)
- Seven (29.1%)
- ABC (17.1%)
- Ten (17.0%)
- SBS (7.3%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (20.9%)
- Seven (20.0%)
- ABC (12.9%)
- Ten (10/9%)
- SBS ONE (5.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (3.8%)
- GO (3.7%)
- 7mate (3.5%)
- ONE (3.4%)
- Gem (2.8%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.465 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.397 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.314 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.142 million
- Nine/NBN News (6.30) — 1.134 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.036 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.022 million
- 7pm ABC News — 989,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 979,000
- Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ABC) — 948,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers.
Losers: The Bachelorette.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 988,000
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 927,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 876,000
- Nine News (6.30) — 865,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) – 729,000
- 7pm ABC News – 701,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 614,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 463,000
- Ten Eyewitness News — 359,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) —262,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) – 477,000
- Today (Nine) – 354,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 257,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 219,000
- Mornings (Nine) — 153,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 73,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 174,000
- Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 107,000
- Cricket, Second Test, Pakistan v Australia Day 2 (Fox Cricket) — 91,000
- Cricket, Second Test, Pakistan v Australia Day 2 (Fox Cricket) — 89,000
- Cricket, Second Test, Pakistan v Australia Day 2 The Big Break (Fox Cricket), Cricket, Second Test, Pakistan v Australia Day 2 Tea Break (Fox Cricket) — 64,000
The women are spinsters (for god’s sake) and NOT bachelorettes. The word is marked even by the spelling checker on Crikey as an error!
Secondly, I’m wondering what article this drivel replaced. For those who enjoy such stuff Yahoo news is free.
I think spinster was applicable once past 25 and no longer marriageable for those keen on an heir & a spare, viz the previous issue of household chattels.
It would, however, be unlikely that they could accurately be called maidens.
It was Virginia Woolf, writing in 1925, who declared “a women at 28 can no longer be considered young.
It also has been some time since I attended a wedding but the the few of the last in my home town (although not elsewhere) the Anglican vicar distinctly referred to the 23 year old bride as a “spinster of this parish” and similarly for a 19 year old bride about two years hence.
It is as well for the GDP of the country that Australian police forces do not apply the same selection criteria to female recruits as do
the Indonesians.
During the Tudor period (a tad prior in fact) at about 11 or 12 boys were given there own beds in which to sleep. Girls were provided with shelves at a height of about 4 feet affixed to the walls. At about 17 or 18 an unmarried girl was referred to as still being on the shelf. By the 20th century the origin of the phrase had been (collectively) forgotten.
For that matter the word spinster derives from the “spinning of wool” – or spinners.
More to the point, on a recent trip to the USA, I happened to sight an item of correspondence from one female attorney to another female attorney. The letters “Esq” appended the salutation with the full stop being conspicuously absent. I can tolerate a fair bit but I almost passed out – and felt a distinct need to repair to the hotel for a lie down.
“Bachelorette” is in the same tub.