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Ratings for Thursday September 17 2009

Skippy made his return to TV last night with the one hour special Skippy: Australia’s First Superstar taking ratings away from 7’s Amazing Race which ended up 4th in the 8.30pm timeslot. Stiff competition from the ever popular 20-1 and 10’s Rush kept 7 at bay, on what is now their worst ratings night of the week. Seems that many viewers can only handle one episode of Amazing Race at a time, with the second episode outrating the first and coming 2nd in the 9.30pm timeslot where there is less competition.

Also the fact that you can change over to channel 7 at 9.30 and still see between 5 and 10 minutes of the 8.30 show would have meant that some Amazing Race fans would have been satisfied with finding out the result only of the first episode. Another issue that would be affect the shows ratings could be the fact that people are holding out for the new series to be fast tracked to 7 possibly as soon as Thursday October 1. Furthermore, (I’ll say it again) double episodes don’t always translate into ratings success. For many shows, one hour a week is enough.

Glee on Ten went well, but not good enough to beat Getaway on 9. Glee was top show for the night in the 16-39 demographic.

Timeslot Order:
7.00pm 1 7 H&A. 2 9 2.5 Men. 3 ABC1 News
7.30pm 1 9 Getaway. 2 7 H&A (AFL Markets). 3 10 Glee
8.00pm 1 9 Getaway. 2 10 Glee. 3 7 Gary Unmarried (AFL Markets)
8.30pm 1 9 20-1. 2 10 Rush. 3 ABC1 Skippy
9.30pm 1 9 Footy Show. 2 7 Amazing Race. 3 10 Burn Notice

Network Shares:
1 9-GO 30.9%. 2 7 24.4%. 3 10-ONE 21.7%. 4 ABC 18.4%. 5 SBS 4.8%
Channel Shares:
1 9 29.2%. 2 7 24.4%. 3 10 20.1%. 4 ABC1 16.7%. 5 SBS ONE 4.2%
6 ABC2 1.7%. 7 ONE 1.6%. 8 GO 1.5%. 9 SBS TWO 0.6%

Channel 9 won the night outright as they usually do on Thursdays. Although not spectacular in ratings, double Amazing Race helped keep 7 above 10 and thus avoiding the embarrassment of having a night in 3rd place. In digital channels, Thursday is actually a low night for GO, with GO coming 8th in the channel order. Both ONE and ABC2 were marginally ahead of GO.

Top 30 Shows:
1 Seven News Seven 1,363,000
2 Today Tonight Seven 1,332,000
3 20 To 1 Nine 1,133,000
4 Nine News Nine 1,117,000
5 Getaway Nine 1,091,000
6 A Current Affair Nine 1,055,000
7 Home and Away Seven 1,053,000 (one hour in AFL markets)
8 Rush Ten 1,050,000
9 Two and a Half Men Rpt 7pm Nine 1,049,000
10 ABC News ABC1 961,000
11 The Footy Show Nine 915,000
12 Skippy: Australia’s First Superstar ABC1 892,000
13 Glee Encore Ten 871,000
14 7.30 Report ABC1 819,000
15 The Amazing Race Ep 2 9.30pm Seven 816,000
16 Ten News Ten 803,000
17 Gary Unmarried Seven 800,000 (8pm in AFL markets)
18 The Amazing Race Seven 8.30pm 792,000
19 Catalyst ABC1 74,000
20 The 7pm Project Ten 680,000
21 Deal or No Deal Seven 678,000
22 Neighbours Ten 677,000
23 Burn Notice Ten 666,000
24 The Simpsons Ten 623,000
25 Hot Seat Nine 620,000
26 Q&A ABC1 541,000
27 Australia’s Heritage: National Treasures ABC1 490,000
28 The Bold and the Beautiful Ten 451,000
29 MASH Seven 438,000
30 Double Take Seven 433,000

A few others:
American Dad Seven 327,000
Costa’s Garden Odyssey SBS ONE 301,000
ADbc SBS ONE 138,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 138,000
Thursday Night Live ONE 81,000
Moonlight GO 76,000
UFC Wired ONE 62,000
Gossip Girl GO 52,000
Boxing: KO TV ONE 50,000
Xtreme Paintball: Beyond the Paint ONE 27,000
Honolulu SBS TWO 27,000

Raw ratings figures sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spy and are Oztam 5 city metro figures. Timeslot order is some cases will may be based on average figures over a number of time slots. Timeslot order is only offered where there is enough data available to put at least 3 networks in order at the times listed and is not offered for Friday and Saturday nights due to the varying network coverage of AFL and NRL football and the resulting alternate programming in the opposing market. Timeslot order for times that pretty well never change will no longer be shown every day – that is, times from 5pm – 7pm Monday to Friday. Timeslot times may not reflect exact times that show air due to network lateness. Here, a show starting as late as 9.45 for example will be considered as the 9.30 timeslot, if 9.30 is the time it was advertised to air. Any odd times indicated such as 8.40 are as a result of observation on at least two networks. Network shares include all extra digital channels for each network. Week so far is the cumulative network share including extra digital channels from Sunday until the day of this report. A figure shown for an individual secondary digital channel such as GO or ONE is an overall percentage share out of total viewers. For example, 9 and GO might be 26.3% together but apart they would be for example 9 24.7% and GO 1.6%. When show not shown in all cities (top 30 list): S = Sydney, B= Brisbane, M = Melbourne, A = Adelaide, P = Perth. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think.

The Nine Network’s new free-to-air channel, GO!, announced today a sensational new addition to the current schedule – which has already proven to be a massive ratings success.

Coming in October, GO! will present all new Australian premiere episodes of some of the world’s most anticipated television series including THE WIRE (series 5), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (series 6), WEEDS (series 3), and the premiere of the hottest new series direct from the United States this Fall TV season – THE VAMPIRE DIARIES.

Adding to this already must-watch line up are hit series from Comedy Central, the breathtakingly irreverent and ruthlessly funny SOUTH PARK, and the hilarious, unscripted adventure and high-octane thriller RENO 911, which were secured as part of a new content partnership between GO! and MTV Networks International.

“We are thrilled to secure this new content, not only because of its enormous appeal, but because it is a perfect fit for GO! and its key demographic target audience of 14-39 year olds,” said Les Sampson, Head of Acquisitions and Programming for GO!.

Channel 9 has completely re-arranged their programming for the week commencing September 27. Rather than go through and edit the posts I have written about all their shows in that week so far, I thought it best to sum up here. Therefore, any other post prior to this one WILL be incorrect. [Updated: The Apprentice Australia added]

So, here we go.

1. Despite HUGE promotions, media releases and calls for participants, the two Hey Hey its Saturday reunion specials that were originally slated to air on Tuesday nights Sept 29 and Oct 6 have been moved to Wednesday nights Sept 30 and Oct 7. Both nights, the Hey Hey reunions will start at 7.30 and go right through until 10pm.

The move to Wednesdays is perhaps to avoid having to compete with Packed to the Rafters on 7 and the return of NCIS on 10. It also means that the final episode of the Gift has been pushed back most likely until Oct 13 or perhaps even another time altogether. Also out on Wednesday nights will be Money for Jam, 7.30’s 2.5 Men, RPA and Without a Trace – which performed poorly in terms of average ratings over its 2 hour airing Wed Sept 16. Sept 23 at this stage remains as programmed.

The Hey specials will also be repeated on Saturday nights at 9.30. Good idea that!

2. The Mentalist. After premiering in the US on September 24, we will see the first episode at 8.30pm Monday Sept 28. This places it in direct competition with 7’s much hyped Flash Forward and GO’s The Vampire Diaries. The Mentalist follows new fast tracked Two and a Half Men at 8pm from Monday Sept 28.

Following the Mentalist will be the debut of the Apprentice Australia at 9.30pm.

3. Looks like Tuesday will be movie night, well at least during the two weeks that most states have school holidays. Following on from Shrek 2 being shown on Mon 21^st, Shrek 3 will be aired at 8.30 Tue 29^th. It is followed by (seemingly quite inappropriately) Little Britain at 10.30.

4. New CSI – Season 10 of CSI will debut on Thursday Oct 1 at 8.30. At 9.30 that night, the NRL states see the Grand Final edition of the NRL Footy Show, while the AFL states have a Mentalist repeat followed by Amazing Medical Stories. The Footy Show goes for 2 hours, and can be seen in the AFL states at midnight.

Programming subject to change. Some info here from TV Tonight.

Ratings for Wednesday September 16 2009

A clean sweep for 7 last night, winning all time slots from 6pm onwards except for the 8.30 half hour dominated by Spicks and Specks on ABC1. 9 was second pretty well all night as well except for the same half hour.

But what happened to Without a Trace? Perhaps the audience can’t handle two new episodes in a row from 9.30? It looks like they reported the full 2 hours as the one show which severely brings down the average for the show over those two hours. The first hour new episode should rate just as well, if not better than ABC1’s United States of Tara. No doubt if I had the detailed breakdown by time, I would suggest that the two shows would have been very close for 9.30 – 10.00.

City Homicide’s new home on Wednesday night will need some work with ratings just over 1.1 million. It should build once viewers get used to it, especially in the next few weeks with soft competition from 9 and 10. NCIS:LA two weeks from now may give City Homicide a run for its money though.

Money for Jam on 9 is not setting the world on fire either. A little down on last week, it should settle at the 1 million mark. We only have next week to find out, as the following week – Sept 30 – is where 9 have moved the Hey Hey reunion specials to for two weeks.

In digital channels, both GO and ABC2 have equal shares of 2.2%. Top show on Go was Fringe, while Junkyard Wars was ABC2’s highest rater. Seems there are some poker fans out there with the heavily promoted Latin American Poker Tour on ONE attracting 56,000 viewers helping the channel to a 1.1% share for the night.

Time slot order:
7.00pm 1 7 H&A. 2 9 2.5 Men. 3 ABC1 News
7.30pm 1 7 Worlds Strictest Parents. 2 9 2.5 Men. 3 ABC1 7.30 Report
8.00pm 1 7 Worlds Strictest Parents. 2 9 Money for Jam. 3 10 Simpsons
8.30pm 1 ABC1 Spicks and Specks. 2 7 Criminal Minds. 3 9 RPA
9.00pm 1 7 City Homicide. 2 9 The Gift. 3 ABC1 Star Stories
9.30pm 1 7 Criminal Minds. 2 ABC1 United States of Tara. 3 9 Without a Trace
10.00pm 1 7 Criminal Minds. 2 9 Without a Trace. 3 10 Law and Order UK

Network Shares:
1 7 29.9%. 2 9-GO 27.5%. 3 ABC 20.6%. 4 10-ONE 17.1%. 5 SBS 4.8%
Channel Shares:
1 7 29.9%. 2 9 25.3%. 3 ABC1 18.4%. 4 10 16.0%. 5 SBS ONE 4.4%
6 GO & ABC2 2.2%. 8 ONE 1.1%. SBS TWO 0.4%

Top 30 Shows:
1 Seven News Seven 1,457,000
2 World’s Strictest Parents-UK Seven 1,407,000
3 Today Tonight Seven 1,233,000
4 Spicks And Specks ABC1 1,214,000
5 Home And Away Seven 1,206,000
6 City Homicide-Wed Seven 1,175,000
7 A Current Affair Nine 1,135,000
8 Two And A Half Men -Wed 7.30pm Nine 1,134,000
9 Two And A Half Men-Rpt 7pm Nine 1,118,000
10 Nine News Nine 1,116,000
11 RPA Nine 1,074,000
12 ABC News ABC1 1,035,000
13 Money For Jam Nine 1,018,000
14 The Gift Nine 1,018,000
15 7.30 Report ABC1 949,000
16 The Simpsons Wed Ep 2 8pm Ten 842,000
17 The New Inventors ABC1 830,000
18 Criminal Minds ® Seven 806,000
19 Ten News At Five Ten 760,000
20 The Cook And The Chef ABC1 757,000
21 Deal Or No Deal Seven 733,000
22 The Simpsons Wed 7.30pm Ten 728,000
23 Neighbours Ten 723,000
24 United States Of Tara ABC1 715,000
25 Star Stories ABC1 712,000
26 The 7pm Project Ten 671,000
27 The Simpsons 6pm Ten 639,000
28 Law a Order: UK Ten 593,000
29 Hot Seat Nine 581,000
30 Without A Trace Nine 554,000

A few Others:
Law a Order: UK Ep 2 Ten 507,000
At The Movies ABC1 402,000  
Inspector Rex Rpt SBS ONE 277,000
Louis Theroux Seven 211,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 144,000
Fringe Go! 121,000
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Go! 112,000
Mr Bean ABC2 108,000
Poker: Latin American Tour ONE 56,000

Raw ratings figures sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spy and are Oztam 5 city metro figures. Timeslot order is some cases will may be based on average figures over a number of time slots. Timeslot order is only offered where there is enough data available to put at least 3 networks in order at the times listed and is not offered for Friday and Saturday nights due to the varying network coverage of AFL and NRL football and the resulting alternate programming in the opposing market. Timeslot order for times that pretty well never change will no longer be shown every day – that is, times from 5pm – 7pm Monday to Friday. Timeslot times may not reflect exact times that show air due to network lateness. Here, a show starting as late as 9.45 for example will be considered as the 9.30 timeslot, if 9.30 is the time it was advertised to air. Any odd times indicated such as 8.40 are as a result of observation on at least two networks. Network shares include all extra digital channels for each network. Week so far is the cumulative network share including extra digital channels from Sunday until the day of this report. A figure shown for an individual secondary digital channel such as GO or ONE is an overall percentage share out of total viewers. For example, 9 and GO might be 26.3% together but apart they would be for example 9 24.7% and GO 1.6%. When show not shown in all cities (top 30 list): S = Sydney, B= Brisbane, M = Melbourne, A = Adelaide, P = Perth. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think.

The cast of TEN’s new US drama – Glee will descend on Westpoint Shopping Centre Blacktown this Sunday, September 20 to meet fans and sign autographs.

Eight cast members including Lea Michele (as Rachel Berry), Cory Monteith (as Finn Hudson) Chris Colfer (as Kurt Hummel), Kevin McHale (as Artie Abrams), Amber Riley (as Mercedes Jones), Mark Salling (as Puck), Dianna Agron (as Quinn Fabray) and Jenna Ushkowitz (as Tina), will visit the centre.

WHO: The cast from TEN’s new US drama – Glee

WHAT: Autograph signing with the cast of Glee

WHEN: THIS Sunday, September 20

WHERE: Level 4 (On Four)
Westpoint Shopping Centre Blacktown
17 Patrick Street
Blacktown

TIME: 1.30pm SHARP on stage

Home and Away’s Lincoln Lewis is to quit the show so he can make his debut in movies.

Lincoln is the 21 year old son of football great Wally Lewis and will film his final scenes in Summer Bay tomorrow before starting his new role in the film adaptation of the best selling teen novel “Tomorrow: When the War Begun”.

Lewis has won a Logie for his portrayal of Geoff Campbell in Home and Away which launched is career in TV in 2007. Earlier this year, he showed us all that he can dance as well on Dancing with the Stars.

He was disciplined by the Seven network earlier this year for showing a phone video of himself and a teen co-star .

Neighbours regular star Caitlin Stasey will join him in the film. She plays Ellie Linton, the heroine in the series of books. The film is about a band of teen guerrillas hiding from enemy forces in an Australian town. Lincoln will act out the role of Kevin which is one of the lead roles.

“I’ve been working in the training for the film with my commitments on Home and Away, so it’s been pretty busy”, Lewis said.

“It’s exciting. It’s sad to be leaving the cast and crew of Home and Away. It was a hard decision to make, but I also think it’s the right time to go.”

Source: Sunday Telegraph

FOXTEL today announced the winners of the 2007 Comedy Gold competition, Sean Condon and Rob Hibbert, have begun production in Melbourne on a new sitcom for THE COMEDY CHANNEL.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better is a behind-the-scenes look at a TV sketch comedy show that follows the writers, producers, network executives and actors involved in the difficult business of being funny.

The special, screening on THE COMEDY CHANNEL later this year, is the creation of writers Sean Condon and Rob Hibbert who won a $25,000 development grant as part of the Comedy Gold initiative in 2007.

An impressive cast has been assembled including Colin Lane (Lano & Woodley), Toby Truslove (Beaconsfield The Musical & Thank God You’re Here) and international comedian Kitty Flanagan (Full Frontal & UK’s The Sketch Show).

Brian Walsh, Executive Director of Television and Marketing said: “FOXTEL is delighted to bring an original idea to the screen which came out of an initiative to encourage fresh comedy from Australia’s new and yet to be discovered comedy talent.”

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better is directed by Erin White (four time AFI-nominated short filmmaker), the Producer is Rohan Timlock (Kenny & John Safran Versus God) and Executive Producer is Darren Chau from THE COMEDY CHANNEL.

Ratings for Tuesday September 15, 2009

The return of RSPCA Animal Rescue coupled with the new series Last Chance Surgery further re-affirms channel 7 as the number one network for Tuesday nights. Packed to the Rafters was the number one show for the night, and out of the top 10 shows, 6 of them were channel 7’s. The other 4 were channel 9 shows.

Channel 10 managed to maintain a 20% share of the night, but that was only thanks to two hours of NCIS. The Spearman Experiment has been absolutely savaged, losing nearly half of it’s audience from its first airing last week. No surprise there really as there is pretty well nothing but negative feedback about the show everywhere. I would guess that the show would fall again next week before settling at dangerously low figures for a 7.30pm time slot. Seeing that 10 have made immediate changes to Sunday night, they should consider the same with Tuesday 7.30pm. With new episodes of NCIS just two weeks away, now would be the chance to fix 7.30 and regain second spot for Tuesday night. The two repeat episodes of NCIS last night were Ten’s top two shows of the night. 7pm Project was third for the network. Nothing over a million on Ten.

Over at 9, the Two and a Half Men and 20-1 combo deal continues to help them, but realistically, their current success on Tuesday night has been mostly thanks to channel 10’s fall on that night. The 9.30pm movie certainly does not help although an average of 500,000 until 11.30pm would actually put it first at post 10.30pm timeslots.

GO’s top show was Survivor: Gabon. GO accounted for a respectable 2.2% of last nights’ audience. ABC2 was not too far behind GO and beats ONE by in fact more than doubling the audience of ONE. Another problem for the Ten-ONE network is the fact that there are nights where ONE comes second last in the channel shares, barely making double what SBS TWO does.

Timeslot Order:
7.00pm 1 9 2.5 Men. 2 7 H&A. 3 ABC1 News
7.30pm 1 7 RSPCA. 2 9 20-1 3 ABC1 7.30 Report
8.00pm 1 7 Last Chance Surgery. 2 9 20-1. 3 10 Spearman
8.30pm 1 7 Rafters. 2 10 NCIS. 3 9 2.5 Men
9.30pm 1 7 All Saints. 2 10 NCIS. 3 9 Deuce Bigalow

Network Shares:
1 7 33.7%. 2 9-GO 26.5%. 3 10-ONE 20.8%. 4 ABC 14.0%. 5 SBS 4.9%
Channel Shares:
1 7 33.7%. 2 9 24.3%. 3 10 20.0%. 4 ABC1 12.2%. 5 SBS1 4.5%
6 GO 2.2%. 7 ABC2 1.8%. 8 ONE 0.8%. 9 SBS2 0.4%

Top 30 Shows:
1 Packed to the Rafters Seven 1,806,000
2 RSPCA Animal Rescue Seven 1,493,000
3 Seven News Seven 1,417,000
4 Last Chance Surgery Seven 1,403,000
5 Today Tonight Seven 1,374,000
6 20-1 Rpt Nine 1,258,000
7 Two and a Half Men 7pm Nine 1,205,000
8 Nine News Nine 1,199,000
9 Home and Away Seven 1,194,000
10 A Current Affair Nine 1,158,000
11 All Saints Seven 1,055,000
12 NCIS Rpt 8.30pm Ten 957,000
13 ABC News ABC1 957,000
14 NCIS Ep2 Rpt 9.30pm Ten 900,000
15 Two and a Half Men ep1 8.30pm Nine 892,000
16 Two and a Half Men ep2 9.00pm Nine 781,000
17 The 7pm Project Ten 780,000
18 7.30 Report ABC1 769,000
19 Ten News Ten 768,000
20 Neighbours Ten 753,000
21 Spearman Experiment Ten 699,000
22 Deal or No Deal Seven 672,000
23 Foreign Correspondent ABC1 650,000
24 The Simpsons Ten 638,000
25 Hot Seat Nine 603,000
26 The Wild West ABC1 527,000
27 Deuce Bigalow Rpt Nine 527,000
28 10 Years Younger NZ Seven 460,000
29 Bold and the Beautiful Ten 444,000
30 MASH Seven 420,000

A few others:
Insight: SBS ONE 208,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 146,000
Survivor Gabon GO 129,000

Raw ratings figures sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spy and are Oztam 5 city metro figures. Timeslot order is some cases will may be based on average figures over a number of time slots. Timeslot order is only offered where there is enough data available to put at least 3 networks in order at the times listed and is not offered for Friday and Saturday nights due to the varying network coverage of AFL and NRL football and the resulting alternate programming in the opposing market. Timeslot order for times that pretty well never change will no longer be shown every day – that is, times from 5pm – 7pm Monday to Friday. Timeslot times may not reflect exact times that show air due to network lateness. Here, a show starting as late as 9.45 for example will be considered as the 9.30 timeslot, if 9.30 is the time it was advertised to air. Any odd times indicated such as 8.40 are as a result of observation on at least two networks. Network shares include all extra digital channels for each network. Week so far is the cumulative network share including extra digital channels from Sunday until the day of this report. A figure shown for an individual secondary digital channel such as GO or ONE is an overall percentage share out of total viewers. For example, 9 and GO might be 26.3% together but apart they would be for example 9 24.7% and GO 1.6%. When show not shown in all cities (top 30 list): S = Sydney, B= Brisbane, M = Melbourne, A = Adelaide, P = Perth. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think.

Confirmed by Dicko on channel 10′s The 7pm Project tonight – Australian Idol will be moving back to 7.30pm Sundays effective immediately.

Dicko said he wasn’t sure if he could say so or not, but what could they do – sack another judge? He said the old time slot of 7.30 was more family friendly and that the move was as a result of listening to public opinion.

In recent weeks, Australian Idol has failed to crack 1 million in the ratings and has been the lowest rating season of the show since its inception. The earlier time slot has been blamed on its ratings demise as the 6.30 time is too early for many of the shows demographic. Further more, channel 10′s viewer share on Sunday nights has slipped to 4th overall on Sunday nights behind Seven, Nine-GO and the ABC.

With the days warming up and daylight saving soon to start in many states, the 7.30 start time makes alot more sense.

That means that Rove will follow at 9.30pm. Little Britain USA and Nurse Jackie will follow Rove at 10.40 or so for this week only. From Monday Sept 28th, both shows will move to Monday nights after Good News Week. Not sure where that leave the fast tracked Supernatural which was originally slated for the Monday night time slot after Good News Week.

The move to 7.30 for Australian Idol could soon pave the way for Merlin to be fast tracked to its first season time slot of 6.30 Sundays. The first episode of Merlin in the UK has only just aired. Merlin’s 1st season on channel 10 was a surprise hit and more often than not won the 6.30pm time slot. This Sunday, however, an encore of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation will be seen.

In the meantime though, Sundays’ new line up for channel 10 is as per the following [updated]:

5.30 Sport Tonight retuens to Sundays at last. (Don’t Forget the Lyrics is out) 

6.00 The Simpsons

6.30 Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Encore.

7.30 Australian Idol

9.30 Rove.

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Nurse Jackie and Little Britain USA WILL NOT be shown on Sept 20, both shows will be held over until Monday Sept 28 to appear from 10pm after Good News Week.

Ratings for Monday September 14 2009

As expected, the finale of Farmer Wants a Wife coupled with the strength of Two and a Half Men gave channel 9 an outright win last night. No help from GO needed. City Homicide on 7 dropped, and Beyond the Darklands did not do as well as usual. It was the NZ version of the show last night, covering Terry Clark who was at the centre of Underbelly 2 seen on 9 earlier this year.

Yet again though, the 7.30 – 8.30pm timeslot saw the audience split fairly evenly across all 5 networks with 10’s 5th grader coming 5th for the second week in a row. The only stand out for the hour was Two and a Half Men, with everything else in positions 11-20 in the top 30 with between 800,000 and 1.1 million viewers each.

7’s one hour Deal or No Deal special did worse for them at 5pm than what Mash usually does. Most likely because everyone would be set in their ways at that time of day as far as viewing habits are concerned. The show did, however, gain in its second half compared to usual.

With both 7 and 9 not offering regular programming next Monday, will Top Gear crack the one million? Definitely heading that way, making it SBS’s biggest show by far.

Time Slot Order:
7.00pm 1 9 2.5 Men. 2 7 H&A. 3 ABC1 News
7.30pm 1 9 2.5 Men. 2 7 10 Things. 3 SBS ONE Top Gear. 4 ABC1 7.30 Report. 5 10 5th Grader
8.00pm 1 7 10 Things. 2 9 Big Bang. 3 SBS ONE Top Gear. 4 ABC1 Aus Story. 5 10 5th Grader
8.30pm 1 9 Farmer. 2 7 City Homicide. 3 10 Good News Week
9.30pm 1 9 Farmer. 2 7 Darklands. 3 ABC1 Ashes to Ashes.

Network Shares:
1 9 31.3%. 2 7 25.9%. 3 10 19.3%. 4 ABC 15.6%. 5 SBS 7.9%
Channel Shares:
1 9 29.4%. 2 7 25.9%. 3 10 18.0%. 4 ABC1 14.1%. 5 SBS1 7.6%.
6 ABC2 1.5%. 7 GO 1.4%. 8 ONE 1.2%. 9 SBS2 0.5%

Top 30 Shows:
1 Seven News Seven 1,513,000
2 Today Tonight Seven 1,455,000
3 The Farmer Wants A Wife -Finale Nine 1,422,000
4 Two And A Half Men-Rpt 7.00pm Nine 1,265,000
5 Two And A Half Men 7.30pm Nine 1,263,000
6 The Farmer Wants A Wife Nine 1,263,000
7 Nine News Nine 1,236,000
8 City Homicide-Mon Seven 1,189,000
9 Home And Away Seven 1,150,000
10 A Current Affair Nine 1,146,000
11 10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight Seven 1,090,000
12 ABC News ABC1 1,085,000
13 The Big Bang Theory Nine 1,018,000
14 Good News Week Ten 978,000
15 Top Gear SBS ONE 944,000
16 Australian Story ABC1 891,000
17 Ten News At Five Ten 854,000
18 Deal Or No Deal 5.30pm Seven 849,000
19 7.30 Report ABC1 812,000
20 Are You SmarterThan A 5th Grader? Ten 801,000
21 Neighbours Ten 746,000
22 Beyond The Darklands-Mon Seven 738,000
23 The Simpsons Ten 695,000
24 The 7pm Project Ten 681,000
25 Hot Seat Nine 631,000
26 Four Corners ABC1 609,000
27 Media Watch ABC1 583,000
28 Ashes To Ashes ABC1 478,000
29 Talking Heads ABC1 476,000
30 The Bold And The Beautiful Ten 429,000

A few others:
Deal Or No Deal-Early 5pm Seven 396,000  
Dexter Ten 393,000
US Open Tennis Championships 2009 Nine 158,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 136,000  
Entourage SBS ONE 128,000  
Skins SBS ONE 122,000  
One Week At A Time One 97,000  
Dog The Bounty Hunter Go! 95,000

Raw ratings figures sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spyand are Oztam 5 city metro figures. Timeslot order is some cases will may be based on average figures over a number of time slots. Timeslot order is only offered where there is enough data available to put at least 3 networks in order at the times listed and is not offered for Friday and Saturday nights due to the varying network coverage of AFL and NRL football and the resulting alternate programming in the opposing market. Timeslot order for times that pretty well never change will no longer be shown every day – that is, times from 5pm – 7pm Monday to Friday. Timeslot times may not reflect exact times that show air due to network lateness. Here, a show starting as late as 9.45 for example will be considered as the 9.30 timeslot, if 9.30 is the time it was advertised to air. Any odd times indicated such as 8.40 are as a result of observation on at least two networks. Network shares include all extra digital channels for each network. Week so far is the cumulative network share including extra digital channels from Sunday until the day of this report. A figure shown for an individual secondary digital channel such as GO or ONE is an overall percentage share out of total viewers. For example, 9 and GO might be 26.3% together but apart they would be for example 9 24.7% and GO 1.6%. When show not shown in all cities (top 30 list): S = Sydney, B= Brisbane, M = Melbourne, A = Adelaide, P = Perth. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think.