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Directed by | Mark Fitzgerald |
Presented by | Wil Anderson |
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Composer | David Chapman |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 16 |
No. of episodes | 175 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 35 minutes |
Production company | CJZ |
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Network | ABC |
Release | 28 May 2008 – present |
Gruen (previously known as The Gruen Transfer) is an Australian television program focusing on advertising, which debuted on the ABC on 28 May 2008. The program is hosted by Wil Anderson and produced by Andrew Denton's production company, Zapruder's Other Films, [1] now part of CJZ. Anderson is accompanied by a panel of advertising industry experts including Russel Howcroft (originally of George Patterson Y&R) and Todd Sampson (previously of Leo Burnett). The title refers to the Gruen transfer, the response to designed disorientation cues in retail environments. [2]
The show's debut episode drew an audience of nearly 1.3 million, the highest debut for an entertainment program in the ABC's history. [3] The concept has been sold to TV production companies in the UK, Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, South Africa and Spain. The Gruen Transfer was nominated for an AFI award for Best Light Entertainment Television Series in 2008. [4]
A spinoff series, Gruen Nation, aired during the 2010 Australian federal election and again for the 2013 Australian federal election. A second spinoff series, Gruen Planet, took over from the fourth series of The Gruen Transfer on 28 September 2011, focusing on corporate and government global media strategies and public relations. [5] Another spinoff series entitled Gruen Sweat examining the branding and marketing of the 2012 London Olympics began airing from 25 July 2012. [6] [7] The spinoff series titled Gruen began airing on 9 September 2015, following the original concept of The Gruen Transfer series.
Current segments include:
A spin-off series called Gruen Nation was aired during the 2010 federal election campaign. [10] The first episode aired on 28 July 2010 at 9 pm. The series concluded on 18 August 2010. Each 45-minute episode was hosted by Wil Anderson with regular Gruen Transfer guests Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft and guests John Hewson, leader of the federal Liberal party 1990–94, Neil Lawrence, "Kevin 07" campaign co-ordinator, and Annabel Crabb, journalist and political commentator. [11] Anderson said "If the ABC is the national broadcaster, then Gruen Nation is the national bullshit detector." [12]
A spin-off called Gruen Planet was announced to replace series 4 of The Gruen Transfer, with a broader landspace. [13] The first episode of the first series premiered on 28 September 2011 with 1.138 million viewers, rating fourth viewed show of the week. The second series began airing on 22 August 2012 following the conclusion of Gruen Sweat. [14]
Segments included:
A third spin-off series, titled Gruen Sweat, aired throughout the 2012 Summer Olympics. The four-episode series premiered on 25 July 2012 to 931,000 viewers. [14] [15]
A spin-off called Gruen was announced to replace Gruen Planet. The first episode of the first series premiered on 9 September 2015 with 974,000 viewers, ranking as the fourth-most-viewed show of the week. Despite the revised name, there are only extremely minor changes implemented for Gruen. All episodes are hosted by Wil Anderson and feature Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft.
Panelists have included: Karen Ferry, [16] Christina Aventi, [17] Dee Madigan, [18] Emily Taylor, [19] Pia Chaudhuri, Carolyn Miller, Adam Ferrier, Sunita Gloster, Lauren Zonfrillo, Priya Patel, Annie O'Rourke, Camey O'Keefe, Kirsty Muddle and others.
Series | Title | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | The Gruen Transfer | 10 | 28 May 2008 | 30 July 2008 | |
2 | 10 | 18 March 2009 | 20 May 2009 | ||
3 | 16 | 6 | 16 June 2010 | 21 July 2010 | |
Gruen Nation | 4 | 28 July 2010 | 18 August 2010 | ||
The Gruen Transfer | 6 | 25 August 2010 | 29 September 2010 | ||
4 | The Gruen Transfer | 16 | 8 | 3 August 2011 | 21 September 2011 |
Gruen Planet | 8 | 28 September 2011 | 16 November 2011 | ||
5 | Gruen Sweat | 14 | 4 | 25 July 2012 | 15 August 2012 |
Gruen Planet | 10 | 22 August 2012 | 24 October 2012 | ||
6 | Gruen Nation | 12 | 4 | 14 August 2013 | 4 September 2013 |
Gruen Planet | 8 | 11 September 2013 | 30 October 2013 | ||
7 | Gruen | 10 | 9 September 2015 | 11 November 2015 | |
8 | 10 | 3 August 2016 | 5 October 2016 | ||
9 | 10 | 13 September 2017 | 16 October 2017 | ||
10 | 10 | 2 May 2018 | 4 July 2018 | ||
11 | 10 | 25 September 2019 | 27 November 2019 | ||
12 | 10 | 14 October 2020 | 16 December 2020 | ||
13 | 10 | 13 October 2021 | 15 December 2021 | ||
14 | Gruen Nation | 10 | 2 | 11 May 2022 | 18 May 2022 |
Gruen | 8 | 7 June 2022 | 27 July 2022 | ||
15 | Gruen | 9 | 21 June 2023 | 16 August 2023 | |
16 | 10 | 15 May 2024 | 18 July 2024 |
In 2009, The Sydney Morning Herald felt that The Gruen Transfer represented "intelligence and substance." [20]
In 2013, The Sydney Morning Herald thought that by Gruen Planet, the show's creators had got the franchise format "down to a fine art". [21]
In 2013, the Gruen Sweat special edition of the show won a Rose d'Or for Entertainment. [22]
Gruen returned to television in 2016 with 954,000 viewers, [23] and in 2017 with 903,000 viewers, [24] while in 2020 it received 943,000 viewers. [25]
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Season | Episode number | ||||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
1 | 1.287 | 1.273 | 1.121 | 1.204 | 1.182 | 1.058 | 1.302 | 1.314 | 1.386 | 1.456 | – | ||||||
2 | 1.120 | 1.151 | 0.976 | 1.087 | 1.212 | 1.244 | 1.226 | 1.211 | 1.239 | 1.312 | – | ||||||
3 | 1.177 | 1.227 | 1.407 | 1.197 | 1.341 | 1.280 | 1.600 | 1.503 | 1.571 | 1.540 | 1.358 | 1.391 | 1.482 | 1.407 | 1.448 | 1.403 | |
4 | 1.072 | 1.114 | 1.120 | 1.017 | 1.165 | 1.164 | 1.269 | 1.162 | 1.138 | 1.130 | 1.023 | 1.110 | 1.160 | 1.050 | 1.180 | 1.170 | |
5 | 0.931 | 0.793 | 0.794 | 0.918 | 0.906 | 0.810 | 0.917 | 0.939 | 0.946 | 0.913 | 1.023 | 0.997 | 1.018 | 1.038 | – | ||
6 | 1.028 | 1.052 | 1.045 | 1.179 | 1.128 | 0.988 | 0.908 | 0.784 | 0.884 | 0.909 | 1.070 | 1.004 | – | ||||
7 | 0.974 | 0.915 | 0.900 | 0.917 | 0.926 | 0.902 | 0.904 | 0.904 | 0.897 | 0.948 | – | ||||||
8 | 0.954 | 0.865 | 0.829 | 0.927 | 0.901 | 0.830 | 0.815 | 0.832 | 0.796 | 0.832 | – | ||||||
9 | 0.903 | 0.773 | 0.793 | 0.806 | 0.838 | 0.813 | 0.849 | 0.816 | 0.840 | 0.718 | – | ||||||
10 | 0.862 | 0.841 | 0.897 | 0.784 | 0.825 | 0.764 | 0.877 | 0.881 | 0.809 | 0.785 | – | ||||||
11 | 0.855 | 0.874 | 0.825 | 0.827 | 0.730 | 0.695 | 0.744 | 0.741 | 0.732 | 0.749 | – | ||||||
12 | 1.037 | 0.831 | 0.891 | 0.746 | 0.732 | 0.666 | 0.732 | 0.725 | 0.698 | 0.638 | – | ||||||
13 | 0.657 | 0.702 | 0.647 | 0.602 | 0.577 | 0.618 | 0.539 | 0.573 | 0.468 | 0.526 | – | ||||||
14 | 0.588 | 0.559 | 0.491 | 0.619 | 0.501 | 0.524 | 0.536 | 0.416 | 0.519 | 0.510 | – | ||||||
15 | 0.436 | 0.532 | 0.484 | 0.415 | 0.427 | 0.458 | 0.480 | 0.514 | 0.215 | – | |||||||
16 | 0.751 | 0.702 | 0.667 | 0.603 | 0.725 | 0.795 | 0.562 | 0.727 | – |
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