Throng

Ratings Monday March 8, 2010

A shocker of a night for Ten with the network ratings about half of what both Seven and Nine did. Ten’s top show is the 5pm News with just under a million, but that doesn’t actually count towards the networks’ prime time shares which kick in from 6pm - midnight.

Top show for the night was Two and a Half Men, thanks to abnormally huge numbers in Melbourne. In Sydney, 2.5 Men is 7th show. My Kitchen Rules stayed around the 1.4 million mark and the Mentalist easily won the 8.30pm timeslot despite last night’s episode being one of the most boring episodes of the show so far.

The Oscars did well live, and the 9.30 replay rated around 700,000, but that was nothing compared to last years event hosted by Hugh Jackman which was a much better show than this years was. It was probably one of the most boring ceremonies for several years, and the ratings seem to reflect that.

Network Shares:
1 Nine 31.1%. 2 Seven 30.5%. 3 ABC 17.7%. 4 Ten 15.6%. 5 SBS 5.2%
Channel Shares:
1 9 28.9%. 2 7 26.9%. 3 ABC1 16.3%. 4 10 15.2%
5 SBS ONE 5.0%. 6 7TWO 3.6%. 7 GO 2.1%. 8 ABC2 1.1%
9 ONE 0.4%. 10 ABC3 0.3%. 11 SBS TWO 0.2%

Top shows for the night:
1 Two And A Half Men Nine 1,587,000
2 Seven News Seven 1,489,000
3 Today Tonight Seven 1,453,000
4 Nine News / News Nine 1,433,000
5 My Kitchen Rules-Mon Seven 1,396,000
6 The Mentalist Nine 1,311,000
7 Two And A Half Men -Rpt Nine 1,286,000
8 The Big Bang Theory Nine 1,265,000
9 A Current Affair Nine 1,212,000
10 ABC News ABC1 1,143,000
11 Home And Away Seven 1,127,000
12 Desperate Housewives Seven 1,083,000
13 Australian Story ABC1 1,027,000
14 Brothers & Sisters Seven 974,000
15 Four Corners ABC1 974,000
16 Ten News At Five Ten 959,000
17 7.30 Report ABC1 946,000
18 Media Watch ABC1 769,000
19 The 7pm Project Ten 769,000
20 Good News Week Ten 740,000
21 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards Nine 701,000
22 The Biggest Loser (Aus) – Elimination Ten 697,000
23 Neighbours Ten 669,000
24 Hot Seat Nine 624,000
25 Deal Or No Deal Seven 622,000
26 The Simpsons Ten 591,000
27 Q & A ABC1 582,000
28 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards -Live Nine 527,000
29 Talking Heads ABC1 448,000
30 Antiques Roadshow Nine 447,000

Man Vs Wild SBS ONE 443,000
Border Patrol (R) Seven 417,000
Sunrise Seven 384,000
Ross Noble’s Australian Trip Ten 381,000
Mythbusters Rpt SBS ONE 329,000
Today Nine 316,000
Ocean Force Seven 254,000
Heartbeat 7TWO 232,000
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards -Red Carpet Nine 230,000
The Morning Show Seven 218,000
Rosemary & Thyme 7TWO 197,000
Bewitched Go! 182,000
World News Australia SBS ONE 163,000
2010 Moomba Street Parade Seven 149,000 M only
30 Rock Seven 147,000
Dirtgirlworld ABC1 140,000
Mornings With Kerrie-Anne Nine 125,000 Excl P
The Whistleblowers 7TWO 118,000
Five Minutes More ABC2 117,000
Wilfred Rpt SBS ONE 110,000
The Wotwots ABC2 109,000

Ratings figures are OzTam Five capital city Preliminary figures. Five capital cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Raw data sourced from TV Tonight, Media Spy, Media Week, and Who We Are. Some Ten programs based on figures provided by Ten.

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