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Q+A has viewers dropping like flies from the ABC despite a strong lead-in from Back Roads.

February 19, 2021 11:23 Novak Djokovic’s three set defeat of Aslan Karastev to qualify for the men’s Australian Open finals attracted 589,000 metro viewers from 7:45pm to 9:39pm. The first night session within which most of the Djokovic match fell, coded from 7:15pm to 8:59pm for ratings purposes, pulled a slightly lower figure of 562,000 ahead of the launch of Gogglebox on Ten at 8:30pm, which had 502,000 capital city viewers. The Australian Open’s night session topped the 16-39s and 18...

The ABC is standing by its decision to shift Q+A to Thursday nights, despite early signs the new timeslot may not be resonating with viewers.

We’re in the depths of winter. The temperatures have been about -15 C below normal as of late. And we’re still in the midst of a pandemic, with so many programs suspended and events cancelled. So. . .

The World’s Greatest Palaces (207,000). Later Wife Swap Australia debuted to 346,000 for Seven then Q+A (294,000) -just 4,000 above last week’s season debut in a new slot. Nine won Thursday with 32.1% then Seven 25.4%, 10 16.8%, ABC 16.4% and SBS 9.2%. Nine News (892,000 / 845,000) was best for Nine. Seven News was #1 at 899,000 / 875,000. The Chase pulled 461,000 / 300,000, and an extended Home & Away averaged 442,000.  Busted in Bangkok was just 158,000. The Project drew 407,000 / 2...

EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s slate is always bursting at the seams with drama, comedy, entertainment documentary, kids and news -so big, it can’t all be accommodated here. But ABC Director Entertainment & Specialist Michael Carrington tells TV Tonight about some of the surprises in store this year. New comedy Aftertaste, with Erik Thomson as an angry chef returning home to Adelaide, premieres tonight. The series is produced by Closer Productions ( The Hunting) with Michael Carrington noting Thomson’...

Bizarre open letter claims to be from Arkan’s ‘ex-wife’

As the ground was pretty saturated after a wet spell, we didnt fancy muddy field or forest paths, and the tide was going to be too high to walk along the beach, so we decided to explore the farmlands south of Crook of Alves, using the network of minor roads in the hope they would be dry underfoot, and so they proved to be. Its very much an agricultural area, with lots of mainly arable farms separated from the Laich of Moray (and the main road) by a low ridge, and rising gently towards Monaughty...

Gadi schwartz is with firefighters there tonight >> reporter: on the frontline to the fiery back roads, crews from all across the west racing to protect homes. these are the men and women fighting fire in the most dangerous conditions, sometimes even with their hands. at the kincade fire, the biggest in california, 4500 from ten different states trying to keep the fire here from growing many of them on grueling 24-hour shifts >> a couple of days were pretty tired, being out on the line all night...

Men and women, who are there during the summer doing military training. this is vigorous military training. theyre getting exposed to all of those branches of the service, aviation, infantry, tactics training, artillery, et cetera. theyre exposed and dive in deeply and putt through the paces, theyre tired. they have to get from one training location to another and probably -- again, no speculation on my part and i know the training very well. back roads. they have some commercial traffic that ge...