Puerile, gutter-level fun drops audience

I have to laugh when the puerile, self-indulgent antics of the "Footy Show" is outrated by the public broadcaster's knee-jerk attempt to balance right and left-wing views, the surprisingly watchable "QandA": But at least someone was watching, as The Footy Show recorded one its worst ratings performances of the year in Sydney with less than 200,000 tuning in. It was again beaten by the ABC's interactive political debate show Q&A, which had 249,000 viewers to The Footy Show's 191,000, pushing The Footy Show into fourth behind Law and Order: SVU and Ghost Whisperer.

Maybe the TV audience is growing up. Shame Channel 9 can't get their collective heads around that idea!