Writing for Crikey, Glenn Dyer comments on David Tench Tonight:
David Tench hangs on despite falling ratings. The Ten Network and Andrew Denton's company Zapruder's Other Films continues to persist with the unusual David Tench Tonight despite falling ratings. The fall is partly a result of being moved to 9.30pm on Thursday nights to allow more adult themes to emerge in the program, which is based on the cartoonish talkshow host, David Tench. It's a complicated and expensive program to make, involving heavy use of digital technology such as motion capture. It only attracted 432,000 viewers last night (its lowest so far) but some of the target demographic of men in their 20s, would have been watching the Footy Show Grand Final editions on Nine. Whether Tench will succeed is very problematic because of the cost and the audience drop seen so far. But if TV is to use more digital facets in everyday production then the skills and the processes now being learned on making Tench, will become prerequisites for people in commercial TV. In the history of Australian commercial TV (not a notable bunch of risk takers) Tench at the moment is an interesting footnote. But it is a necessary part of the future.
