Seven’s rough night: House Rules: High Stakes and Rebel Wilson’s Pooch Perfect plummet in the ratings as they’re soundly beaten by Gogglebox and even The Project
Have Channel Seven lost their knack for creating popular entertainment television?
On Thursday, the network suffered yet another rough night in the ratings, a trend that has been persistent all year.
The revamped and recast House Rules: High Stakes stumbled for the first time since premiering on Monday and Rebel Wilson’s Pooch Perfect continued to struggle.
Seven’s rough night: On Thursday, Channel Seven suffered yet another rough night in the ratings, a trend that has been persistent all year (pictured is Kyly Clarke on House Rules: High Stakes)
House Rules – a renovation show in the mould of The Block – returned with a new format and higher profile hosts this year in an attempt to bolster ratings.
House Rules: High Stakes garnered just 478,000 viewers across the five metro capital cities on Thursday, down 29 percent from Monday’s premiere.
That was good enough for twelfth overall on the night and fifth in non-news programming.
It lost in the timeslot to Channel Ten’s The Project (542,000), a show that’s often the subject of cancellation rumours due to low ratings.
High stakes, low ratings: House Rules: High Stakes garnered just 478,000 viewers across the five metro capital cities on Thursday, down 29 percent from Monday’s premiere
The program did manage to topple the premiere of Channel Nine’s Accidental Heroes, with 438,000 viewers tuning in for the viral video clip show hosted by Sophie Monk.
But Accidental Heroes is far cheaper to produce and was promoted as filler content to tide viewers over during the coronavirus pandemic.
In stark contrast, House Rules: High Stakes was promoted as a flagship offering.
Who’s laughing now? It lost in the timeslot to Channel Ten’s The Project (542,000), a show that’s often the subject of cancellation rumours due to low ratings (Pictured is Waleed Aly on The Project)
Outgoing host Johanna Griggs was replaced by a household name in Jamie Durie, who regularly drew millions of viewers as host of Backyard Blitz in the early 2000s.
And former WAG and lifestyle influencer Kyly Clarke was added to the judging panel – but it seems neither have managed to bolster the show’s numbers.
House Rules: High profile! This comes after Channel Seven revamped the renovation program, bringing in Jamie Durie, who routinely drew millions of viewers as the host of Backyard Blitz in the early 2000s. Likewise new judge Kyly Clarke has failed to move the needle
Compounding Channel Seven’s rough night was the continued failure of Rebel Wilson’s dog grooming show Pooch Perfect, which had just 259,000 viewers.
That was good enough for dead last in the 8.30pm timeslot, beaten by Ten’s Gogglebox (759,000), a Nine News COVID-19 special (330,000) and Grand Designs Australia on ABC (309,000).
Pooch imPerfect: Compounding Channel Seven’s rough night was the continued failure of Rebel Wilson’s Pooch Perfect, which had just 259,000 viewers and came last in the timeslot