Another week, and another new Channel 10 reality tv series has failed to fire, with The Challenge Australia struggling to find an audience since it’s premiere.
On Tuesday night, The Challenge Australia’s audience hit a season low at just 136,000 viewers (5 city metro), down 60k from it’s launch episode a week prior and 30k down from Monday nights episode.
This has resulted in programmers at the network making the decision to bump the show from next week, the first week of the summer non-ratings period, moving it to a later 8:30pm starting next Monday 28th November with a double episode.
The news comes after a string of failed shows in the second half of the year for 10, including soft figures for the third season of the Beau Ryan fronted The Amazing Race Australia, Shaun Micallef’s Brain Eisteddfod, The Real Love Boat Australia and The Traitors Australia.
The new schedule from next week is as follows:
Monday 28th November:
7:30pm – Bondi Rescue x 2 (repeat)
8:30pm – The Challenge Australia x 2
10:30pm – FBI: Most Wanted
With the show now airing as a double episode on Monday, comedy series Ghosts is now out of the schedule and a repeat of Ambulance Australia now airs at 7:30pm on Tuesday instead.
At the Paramount ANZ annual upfronts event in early October this year, the network included the then yet to be launched program in a programming grid for 2023, though it seem unlikely the show will return for any further seasons.
The Challenge. Concept great. Could have been a good show. Then it turns into a reality show like many others that is full of nastiness, fighting , hate, disgusting comments etc etc. Focus then goes to all the negative things.
Rubbish tv not that i watched it but no one with a brain could sit through that with those feral contestants – really channel 10 is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.