Despite being subjected to a withering attack from critics and social media commentators, Warnie is being hailed as a win by Nine (which owns this masthead), with the network claiming the miniseries is “the most-watched new Australian drama of the year”.
range from “avoid this” to “it’s not that bad” to a resoundingly positive “great show” . That last comes from a user who has no other reviews and only registered with the site in May.On Channel 9’s Facebook page
, users criticised the series as “very ordinary”, saying it “looked cheap”, was “horrible to watch”, and calling it “disrespectful”. On Twitter, the lack of physical similarity between Steve Waugh, Alan Border, Michael Clarke and the actors playing them drew ironic commentary. The casting of Noah Janssen in a minor role was singled out for particular disdain. “And guest starring Pepe Le Pew as Kevin Pietersen,” wrote one viewer.
Nine, though, is bullish about how the show has performed, and how much life it believes is in it yet.episode one, with that figure expected to rise substantially over the coming weeks thanks to the exceptional demand on 9Now,” the network said in a statement on Tuesday, in which it claimed the BVOD audience for the first episode had risen to more than 113,000 and an encore screening had added another 141,000 viewers, for a total audience of 1.013 million viewers.
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