Remember Jules Lund's effusive praise for Hole In The Wall ("It's absurd, it's silly, it's mindless, therefore I'm perfect to host it")? The idea of watching people leaping through person-shaped cut-outs in moving walls (you know, like that idiotic tampon commercial with the big molecular things floating in the street and the girls doing kung fu because they got their periods) doesn't exactly sound like a ratings winner, but that looks to be exactly what it is:

Nine's half-hour sneak peek of the happily and proudly ridiculous Hole In The Wall, hosted by Jules Lund, scored a healthy 1.55 million national viewers on Wednesday night.

 

[...] Its success pushed Make Me A Supermodel into 13th place overall with a flat 1.06 million viewers.

Hole In The Wall host Lund said the program was smartly dumb.

"It is ridiculous, but boring it is not - it is unashamedly silly,'' he said. "You could almost take your brain out and put it on the table next to you."

Funny, Jules, taking your brain out and putting it on the table next to you is exactly what goes on when the programming department at Channel Nine calls a board meeting! No wonder they gave him the gig; clearly he's on the Nine wavelength.

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