Friday 1 May 2009
A fairly unimpressive night for everything bar the grey double of Better Homes and Gardens and Midsomer Murders.
Ten, with no sport to fall back on fared the worst of the commercial nets with only a 19% audience share and low audiences all around.
Medium, a show which deserves better, will this week be moving to 9.30 Thursdays with Law & Order doing double duty on the night.
It's a tough ask for the 19 year old procedural which is far more highbrow than its character driven offspring, an evening of Law & Order is often a trip down the complex and labyrinth playbook of the US legal system, played for realism it can often be very dry stuff and at this point it's clear that viewers prefer the abnormally murderous antics of various eccentrics in the English countryside to the gritty 'ripped from the headlines' New York experience.
You'd think Ten might be hanging hoping that ABC will run out of episodes - well don't hold your breath - last night's ep (originally shown on Nine) was episode 10 (or 3.2) that's 10 eps out of 65!!! This show ain't going anywhere soon!
Perhaps Ten should reach into the old vault for some Murder She Wrote, or maybe they still have the rights to Ruth Rendell!
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