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Well, mainly NRL, but as that is their flagship 'product' it's good.
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THE Footy Show is taking a ratings beating, with viewers turning their back on the show and leaving Nine with its worst-ever Sydney figures.
Support for the 15-year-old show - which has long polarised rugby league fans but maintained a strong following with its mix of boofhead variety and NRL talk - has collapsed in the past six weeks.
The unexpected decline has been concentrated in the past three weeks, with the show struggling to top ABC1's political debate program Q&A - and being beaten by it in key periods.
While producers are at a loss to explain the sudden desertion, the show's founding executive producer believes the similar opinions of panel members Paul Vautin, Matthew Johns, Paul Harragon and Laurie Daley was turning the show "a little beige".
"They're very careful what they say about players and I understand why, but I don't think that necessarily helps out television," Gary Burns - now Nine's Event TV executive producer - said.
"That creates a lack of tension, but the commentators are paid to commentate and I think they should air their differences of opinion. But if they all have the same opinion, then it's something we suffer from because then it gets a little beige."
And it's not just The Footy Show that's hurting - the figures coincide with a big drop in audience for Nine's Friday night NRL coverage, beaten by all but SBS programs in Sydney last week.
All up, last Friday's two-game coverage averaged 320,000 Sydney viewers - down from 368,000 three weeks ago and 359,000 a week after that.
Burns said a general NRL turn off began after the State of Origin series - ironically the highest-rating ever.
The Footy Show's Sydney audience fell to 186,000 viewers after Origin game three, a record low beaten last week when the audience plummeted to 166,000.
That's down from an average 271,000 viewers in March.
"We were sailing along fine until the last few weeks ago," Burns said. "The shows have been up to the mark editorially - clearly there's some problems with wider rugby league."
Seems it started to really tail off a couple of weeks ago..... maybe people are listening to ExtremePC and are turning off in protest (I know I haven't watched Nine, or Win, since the decision against IceTV was handed down).
i hardly watch any FTA, apart from some abc, and the occasional trinny and Susannah lol.
the footy is the only thing i will watch and even then it is so loaded with ads its unbearable.
i will only watch the live friday game, and possibly start watching the sunday game after 45mins so i can fast forward ads.
i have not watched the footy show in about 10 years. i cant handle hearing the same comments about every single player, who is a "superstar". they refuse to be critical of anyone, and its plain annoying - that is to say that nine commentary as well as the footy show needs replacing. Daley was crap on fox, and now he's crap on nine
The stupid irony is that I regularly miss the footy show and the NRL games because they are on really late / early in Adelaide and I can't get an accurate electronic guide for Nine.
Talk about lining up to shoot yourself in the foot!
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