In news that should surprise absolutely no one, this year’s Oscars drew record-low audiences. In fact, the only real surprise is that they drew an audience at all. The Oscars have faced plummeting ratings for years, but this year they still fell further by an astonishing 60%. Apparently one of the two remaining viewers had something better to do, like, I don’t know, jam sharpened pencils into every cranial orifice.
Possibly the only show that is outdoing the Oscars in shedding viewers is the ABC’s “flagship current affairs show”, QandA.
I suspect I need hardly introduce QandA to BFD readers. New Zealand has its own version – imaginatively titled Q+A – which I suspect is even worse than ours: at least, if the NZ version of The Project is any guide. Typical NZ, really – they have to beat us Aussies at everything: Rugby, cricket, shitty lefty gabfests…
Just like NZ, almost no one watches it in Australia, either.
Thursday’s program attracted just 224,000 viewers – which means the only people watching were those employed in the national broadcaster’s legal department.
The remaining 25 million Australians did anything else but tune in. And who could blame them?
I mean, who wouldn’t want to watch Malcolm Turnbull and Sarah Hanson-Young furiously agree with each about everything from climate change to how awful Scott Morrison is? You’d find less disagreement – and possibly even fewer brain cells – in a gaggle of NZ journalists jerking off over the latest Women’s Weekly cover photo of Jacinda Ardern.
The Turnbull / Hanson-Young double act was a ratings disaster waiting to happen, even without the rehash of climate change orthodoxy thrown in.
Senator Hanson-Young and ratings greatness do not go hand-in-hand.
And you’ve almost got to feel sorry for former Prime Minister Turnbull.
I said “almost”.
The Labor Party didn’t want him. The Liberal Party tired of him. The NSW State Government wanted him, and then didn’t want him after all. And on Thursday night he ran into the warm embrace of the ABC, only to discover viewers didn’t want him either.
It’s a complete mystery, of course, to the harbourside mansion set running the ABC as to why Australians aren’t champing at the bit to hear the latest pearls of wisdom from ‘The Miserable Ghost’ and ‘Sarah Sea-Patrol’.
ABC director of entertainment Michael Carrington was quoted in The Australian saying “we’ve discovered that audiences now look for content elsewhere around 9pm.”
I think Carrington might find that audiences are looking for content elsewhere 24/7.
Outside of the ABC studios in Ultimo, nobody is interested in watching far left politicians, far left authors and far left actors attack a solitary right-leaning heterosexual male every week.
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Why would anyone bother to tune into QandA any more – if they ever did? Anyone who’s ever had the misfortune to suffer through it knows exactly what its panellists are going to have to say on any of the five woke-left topics QandA cycles through. The only real surprise is whether the host will take a question from audience regulars Fatty McLandwhale with the purple hair, Soyboy Cuckington, or Grievance al-Akbar in the hijab.
Still, at least QandA is doing a public service, of sorts: where else would Sydney’s unemployable leftists find to go, on a Thursday night?
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