The Checkout checked in to the top 10 free-to-air TV shows last night, with 818,000 people tuning in to see fun poked at GIO Insurance's ad and criticism levelled at Webjet.
The ABC's consumer affairs show picked on the GIO Insurance 'Anything but average' spot by Leo Burnett Sydney, which states: “Statistically, the average time taken to drive to work in New South Wales is 34 minutes, the average New South Wales family spends 2.3 hours driving the kids to and from sport every week, and 85.4% of all their trips are essential.”
The Checkout highlighted the small print disclaimer at the end of the spot: “Not all statistics are factual.”
Webjet also came in for a kicking on last night's episode, with the F. U. Tube segment looking at the online flight booking company's policy on telling people the conditions of their international flight bookings.
Webjet doesn't reveal Ts and Cs until the booking is made because “for international bookings, fees and conditions are complicated and fishing out that information for each international fare is not practical”.
It was Nine's night last night in the TV ratings, with the network winning 33.6% of the free-to-air TV audience share across Australia's five metro areas, according to preliminary figures from OzTam.
Seven won 26.4% of the audience share, with the ABC taking 19.3% and Ten getting 15.4%.
With Seven's My Kitchen Rules off air until Monday, Nine's The Block: Fans versus Faves was the most-watched program last night, with 1.372 million viewers.
Nine's The Footy Show also made it into the top 10, in eighth spot with an audience of 865,000.
Seven's Home and Away (seventh spot with 869,000 viewers) and the ABC's Janet King (ninth spot with 831,000 viewers) were the only other non-news programs to make the top 10.
Completing the top 10 were Nine News, in second place with an audience of 1.082 million, Nine News at 6.30, third with 1.048 million, Seven News, fourth with 979,000, Nine's A Current Affair, fifth with 944,000, and Seven's Today Tonight (sixth with 899,000).
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