Ratings Tuesday December 1 2009
The ABC dominates from 7.00 - 9.30 being first in all timeslots during that time. Accidentally on Purpose surprisingly did well for Ten last night, second only to the 7.30 Report. Survivor Samoa was third at 7.30 but lifted to 2nd from 8pm as the Office on Ten could not hold onto the audience the first show had.
At 8.30 Oceans 13 was watched by 820,000, only slightly less than Private Practice while the Prince Charles documentary on ABC1 easily won the 8.30 time slot. As for 9.30 - did anyone know Amazing Race had moved to Tuesday nights? A bad mistake by Seven, backed up with almost no promotion - and the ratings reflect that. The return of Numb3rs on Ten faired alot better.
As for the 7pm Project, while it’s 7pm figures were down, its post 11pm figures were up meaning about the same number of people watched the show overall (and I am guessing noone is really going to watch it twice in one day - right? - so the post 11pm audience would be people not seeing it at 7pm). Having the option to watch the 7pm Project after 11pm may be driving some of the potential 7pm audience to ABC news which now convincingly leads the pack for 7pm ratings.
As for network shares, Nine won their first Tuesday night since... last summer I think? Has been their worst night in ratings for most of the year. Maybe in summer things will change for them.
Timeslot order:
7.00 1 ABC1 News 2 9 Video Show. 3 10 7pm Project
7.30 1 ABC1 7.30 Report. 2 10 Accidentally on Purpose. 3 9 Survivor Samoa
8.00 1 ABC1 Jail Birds. 2 9 Survivor Samoa. 3 10 The Office
8.30 1 ABC1 Prince Charles’ Other Mistress. 2 7 Private Practice. 3 9 Oceans 13
9.30 1 9 Oceans 13. 2 10 Numb3rs. 3 7 Amazing Race
Network Shares:
1 Nine 28.7%. 2 Seven 23.8%. 3 ABC 20.5%. 4 Ten 20.4%. 5 SBS 6.6%
Network Shares Including Subscription TV:
1 STV 22.9%. 2 Nine 21.0%. 3 Seven 18.9%. 4 Ten 16.3%. 5 ABC 14.9%. 6 SBS 3.7%
Regional Network Shares
1 NBN/WIN 26.8%. 2 PRIME/7QLD 22.3%. 3 ABC 20.8%. 4 SC10 19.4%. 5 SBS 10.7%
Top 30 Shows
1 Seven News 7 1,200,000
2 ABC News ABC1 1,177,000
3 Today Tonight 7 1,173,000
4 Nine News 9 1,120,000
5 7.30 Report ABC1 1,117,000
6 A Current Affair 9 999,000
7 Prince Charles’ Other Mistress ABC1 989,000
8 Jail Birds ABC1 905,000
9 Accidentally On Purpose 10 890,000
10 Ten News at Five 10 845,000
11 Private Practice 7 830,000
12 Oceans 13 9 820,000
13 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Daily Edition 9 809,000
14 Survivor Samoa 9 788,000
15 7pm Project 10 781,000
16 How I Met Your Mother 7 766,000
17 Neighbours 10 723,000
18 Numb3rs 10 712,000
19 White Collar 10 710,000
20 The Office 10 710,000
21 Simpsons 10 629,000
22 Gary Unmarried 7 623,000
23 ABC News Update ABC1 614,000
24 Amazing Race 7 590,000
25 Hot Seat 9 570,000
26 Deal or No Deal 7 522,000
27 Family Brat Camp ABC1 493,000
28 Whacked Out Sports 7 443,000 Excl M,P
29 Bold and the Beautiful 10 425,000
30 Gavin Stamp’s Orient Express ABC1 374,000
A few others:
Honeybee Blues SBS ONE 347,000
Secret Diary of a Call Girl 9 275,000
30 Rock 7 269,000
The Circuit SBS ONE 255,000
7pm Project Late 10 207,000
Parks and Recreation 7 144,000
Reaper 7TWO 132,000
Ugly Betty 7TWO 110,000
Survivor Tocantins GO 105,000
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 and Media Spy.
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