Reality Fail #107

Channel 7 is up shit creek without a paddle. MKR is finally out of favour and new copycat of runaway 2017 hit Australian Ninja Warrior, Australian Spartan was well a bit average. Last night it aired ahead of the closing of the Winter Olympics and fell well short of the magic million.

The debut episode reached 816K compared to this years power player, MAFS. MAFS has been serving it up to MKR this year and last night it had it's biggest airing, over 1.5 million viewers.

If Channel 7 keeps this up after scoring the Olympics and rolling out their biggest reality show, it's going to be a long year for the average commercial network.

Leaving the Network with House Rules, First Dates, Seven Year Switch and some new one Take Me Out.

The Olivia Newton John drama is also set to air this year and of course the family friendly lame drama 800 Words will be back whilst Channel 7 favourite Gibney drama Wanted will return most likely for a third season.

Australian networks need to realise the public aren't as dumb as they may think. Australian Ninja Warrior was a hit because people wanted and saw something new. But when a carbon copy shows up, it's well kinda lame. The trick to Ninja Warrior was it came, it conquered and it left the screens long before people grew tired of the series.

MKR is already feeling like it's been on TV a lifetime and it only started after the Australian Open.

Channel Seven needs a win, fast, the Commonwealth Games are coming in less than 40 days, however as the Winter Olympics have shown it hasn't all been glory at the network.

Australian TV needs to wake up, STAN is up around a million subscribers and Netflix has 7.6 million subscribers. Reality is dying fast, only the new and innovative shows will draw a crowd, cooking, singing and weight loss are all so five minutes ago....