Megan Gale’s Body of Work


Episode two of the second series of Body Work on
Nine tonight
and will it be as grubby as the first? A week ago, the program featured
a model type getting her Double D Breasts reduced to a C.
And how could Megan Gale’s agent involved her in such tosh? She’s a
stunning looking person with no obvious need for any Body Work. Gale is
the face of David Jones and how the retailer could have
allowed her to be involved in such a program is puzzling. I hope Gale
is being paid a lot of money to front this rubbish. The
best program on plastic surgery is still Nip/Tuck, also on Nine, starring
Julian McMahon. It is at least well acted, well written and doesn’t
take itself seriously: and is fiction!

Nine gets supernatural

The supernatural
appears to be “in” with Nine programmers at the moment. With a ghost the real star of The Alice, stand by for another dose of Casper central
with Little Oberon,
which is due on
our screens within the next couple of months. Starring Brett Climo and
Sigrid Thornton, it’s now in post-production by Fremantle
International’s Grundy, who also has the
international rights and will try to market the telemovie
overseas – here’s a brief
rundown of Little Oberon
from the Australian Film Commission website. With a strong
female character as the lead, it has the Posie Graeme-Evans feel to it,
especially as the producer, Susan Bower, was producer of Nine’s
successful McLeod’s Daughters.

Last night’s TV
ratings

The Winners

Nine narrowly over Seven in another competitive night
for the networks. If Temptation at 7pm can be the most watched program
with only 1.429 million people, it’s either a dull night in Teleland
(which it sort of is, except for the ABC which has good programming
Wednesdays) or Wednesdays in particular have become very competitive,
which is also true. 18 programs with a million or more viewers
meant no stand out winners. Seven’s Beyond Tomorrow (1.353 million) battled to a win over McLeod’s Daughters (1.259 million) on Nine.
The Losers

Well, Seven wouldn’t be happy with
Forensic Investigators, (897,000 at 9.30pm) which hasn’t
cracked a million viewers this time round and is down more than 5% from
its opening three weeks ago. Ten’s Celebrity Ready Steady Cook is
lucky to have lasted the two episodes it has. It started Tuesday night and
lost 15% of audience last night to finish with 675,000 people. But it will
stay because Ten needs the local content points. The Australian Idol
verdict episode also underperformed, with just on 1.1 million viewers.
Rock School did better with 1.168 million in its first up appearance.
Despite House finishing second with 1.394 million people, Ten would have
been a bit unhappy with the night, thanks to the Celebrity Ready Steady
Cook spoiling the menu for the rest of the
evening.
News & CA

Nine News beat Seven News nationally. Seven couldn’t be saved by the usual big win Perth. But it
still snapped up a win in Sydney, which is what matters. Today Tonight
beat A Current Affair, with a good win in Sydney. ACA and Nine
News also did very well in Melbourne and Brisbane.
The Stats

Nine won with a 28.7% share from Seven with
27.6%, Ten with 22.8%, the ABC with 15.8% and SBS with 5.0%. Nine won
everywhere bar Perth where Seven won from Ten and then Nine. Nine won
Adelaide from Ten and Seven.
Glenn Dyer’s
comments

It was a close night but tonight looms as the opposite, with the
penultimate episode of Lost scheduled. Keep an eye on
Nine’s AFL and NRL Footy Shows. They need freshening up, especially
the League effort in Sydney and Brisbane (where only 94,000 people tuned in
last Thursday night – close to an all time low for that market). Alias will again underperform at 9.30pm for
Seven, even with the huge lead-in from
Lost.