Saturday:
1 Seven News Seven 1,100,000
2 Nine News Saturday Nine 1,008,000
3 Funniest Home Video Show Summer (R) Nine 897,000
4 ABC News ABC1 853,000
5 Daddy Daycare Nine 819,000
6 Ten News At Five Sat Ten 804,000
7 The Bill ABC1 795,000
8 M: Mary Poppins Seven 784,000
9 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 658,000
10 Sports Tonight Ten 621,000
Friday:
1 Seven News Seven 1,135,000
2 Today Tonight Seven 1,091,000
3 Better Homes And Gardens Summer Seven 1,045,000
4 A Current Affair Nine 982,000
5 ABC News ABC1 965,000
6 Nine News Nine 931,000
7 M: Duplex Seven 923,000
8 How I Met Your Mother Seven 841,000
9 Ten News At Five Ten 826,000
10 Temptation Nine 794,000
Thursday:
1 Seven News Seven 1,221,000
2 A Current Affair Nine 1,093,000
3 Today Tonight Seven 1,070,000
4 Nine News Nine 1,000,000
5 ABC News ABC 938,000
6 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Ten 918,000
7 How I Met Your Mother Seven 896,000
8 Temptation Nine 885,000
9 Emergency Nine 879,000
10 Cold Case Nine 859,000
Law And Order: SVU Ten 830,000
The Waiting Room Nine 816,000
Secret Millionaire Nine 771,000
Eli Stone Seven 746,000
Ugly Betty Seven 691,000
Everest ER ABC 660,000
Heroes Seven 505,000
Who Killed Stalin? ABC 487,000
Carla Cametti PD SBS 457,000
Rex In Rome SBS 378,000
Out Of The Blue Ten 368,000
Wednesday:
1 Nine News Nine 1,377,000
2 Seven News Seven 1,254,000
3 Today Tonight Seven 1,208,000
4 A Current Affair Nine 1,201,000
5 How I Met Your Mother Seven 1,051,000
6 Air Crash Investigations Seven 996,000
7 ABC News ABC 994,000
8 CSI: Miami Nine 980,000
9 10 To One Nine 917,000
10 Temptation Nine 902,000
Third Test – Aus v Sth Africa Nine 847,000
Las Vegas Seven 743,000
New Adventures Of Old Christine Nine 718,000
The Unit Seven 689,000
My Family ABC 678,000
E.R. Nine 639,000
House Ten 591,000
Food Safari SBS 513,000
Tuesday:
1 Nine News Nine 1,334,000
2 Today Tonight Seven 1,213,000
3 A Current Affair Nine 1,197,000
4 NCIS Ten 1,165,000
5 Seven News Seven 1,143,000
6 ABC News ABC 991,000
7 Temptation Nine 932,000
8 How I Met Your Mother Seven 923,000
9 Coastwatch Seven 888,000
10 Police Ten 7 Nine 867,000
Sudden Impact Nine 863,000
Wild Vets Seven 839,000
Third Test – Aus v Sth Africa Nine 783,000
Eli Stone Seven 772,000
The Simpsons Tues Ten 739,000
In Plain Sight Ten 702,000
The Museum ABC 515,000
The Bold And The Beautiful Ten 494,000
Hustle ABC 421,000
Desperately Seeking Doctors SBS 378,000
Party Animals ABC 359,000
Monday:
1 A Current Affair Nine 1,419,000
2 Nine News Nine 1,409,000
3 Seven News Seven 1,262,000
4 Today Tonight Seven 1,221,000
5 Bones Seven 1,063,000
6 ABC News ABC 1,036,000
7 Temptation Nine 1,020,000
8 The Rich List Seven 1,004,000
9 How I Met Your Mother Seven 1,003,000
10 Top Gear SBS 991,000
Third Test – Aus v Sth Africa Nine 787,000
The Mentalist Nine 751,000
Gangland Graveyard ABC 744,000
Choir Of Hard Knocks ABC 615,000
America’s Next Top Model Mon Ten 488,000
The Bold And The Beautiful Ten 467,000
Army Wives Ten 413,000
Kath & Kim Seven 313,000
Sunday:
1 Nine News Nine 1,402,000
2 Seven News Seven 1,245,000
3 Outback Wildlife Rescue Seven 1,218,000
4 Two And A Half Men Nine 1,135,000
5 Third Test – Australia V South Africa Nine 1,132,000
6 20 To 1 Nine 1,076,000
7 Hot Property Seven 1,020,000
8 The Big Bang Theory Nine 944,000
9 The Cricket Show Nine 938,000
10 The Rich List Seven 920,000
ABC News ABC 839,000
Nigel Marven’s Ugly Animals ABC 826,000
Twisted Ten 792,000
Shallow Hal Seven 737,000
Magnificent 7 ABC 628,000
Don’t Forget The Lyrics Ten 493,000
America’s Next Top Model Ten 403,000
The Wedge Sun Ten 245,000
gerard, wouldn’t get my hopes up too high, one day without cricket (thursday) and they lose 400k. the cricket hasn’t given any momentum at all.
i’m sure come the tennis they will have lost all cricket viewers and will return to their 900k’s
WOW! I hope Nine keep up the great work with the news. No doubt this is thanks to the WWoS Cricket, but hopefully it lasts throughout the year!
Choose Nine in 09!
In Plain Sight is still getting better ratings than Ten’s double House repeats (100k more). If they had sense they would put IPS on at Wed 8:30pm or 9:30pm instead of just pulling it entirely.
Seeing as my VCR recently broke and I don’t have a PVR/TiVO/et al, it was a tough choice whether to stick with Eli Stone or try out Carla Cametti P.D. In the end I watched Eli, but hopefully SBS will repeat CCPD at some point (as they are with Skins) or I’ll catch it on DVD.
Sunday Feb 8.
David when does ratings period start back? I see Ten is bringing some of its shows back on 1 February 2009 (namely Dance and Loser) but as I recall the official ratings period doesn’t normally start until mid-February – is that correct?
I was in the gym yesterday doing my cardio and both 6pm news on 7 and 9 are showing side by side. funny enough, the only difference is the presenter but the news content are very much exactly alike and tehy are reporting on it almost at the same time. Switch the logo and the presenter and you won’t see the difference. I say people watch the news can be mostly influenced by the lead-ins or jsut plain loyalty to the station unless of course the remote is missing or somebody has sat on it.
Carla Cametti PD did pretty good, as did Heroes in the earlies time slot.
TV worker, of course a good lead in can’t hurt, but there is much debate as to how much influence the lead in has to the news. for most of 25 years 7 had 5:30 under its belt with wheel of fortune. while 9 cycled through young doctors, catch phrase, price is right, a handful of factuals and family feud. yet the people watching 7 dropped come 6:00, they barely won a day to 9.
as a control case: there have been a few saturdays and sundays this year where (in melbourne atleast) the lead ins are postcards, coxy’s big break, absolutely melbourne, all of which rate pretty much the same. yet 7 news wins by 400k.
there have even been a few days this year where 9 had rugby/cricket as a lead in and still lost by heaps.
i say put deal or no deal on both 9 and seven…tjhey have the same lead in and then we can see who has the more popular news…c’mon do it for two weeks or a month…that would be so funny lol
“tennis on means 7 will win news. Cricket gets 9 to win news ratings.”
thing is, nine need the cricket lead-in to be able to win the news hour. Seven don’t need a special event/sporting event to do that.
Lost is back in 2 weeks, is ch7 going to fast track it? I guess they have to ’cause lots of people know how to fast track it for them selves now.
NCIS is so consistent.. pity about In Plain Sight getting the flick though when it was getting better..
NCIS still going strong. Funny how even in rpts this show is still must see tv. Would like to see In Plain Sight doing better though it’s a cool show.
Prison break got 350k easily winning its time slot
10.30 for Lost? Sheesh! Break out the recorder. And I never get why Scrubs is always on so late. It should be prime time!
Ugh, I meant at 10:30pm on Sundays, out of Grey’s Anatomy. I predict Seven’s schedule will look something like this come ratings season
Sun: 8:30 Desperate Housewives / 9:30 Grey’s Anatomy / 10:30 Private Practise-Lipstick Jungle
Mon:
8:30 City Homicide / 9:30 Bones / 10:30 Scrubs
Tues:
8:30 PTTR / 9:30 All Saints / 10:30 Eli Stone
Wed:
8:30 Criminal Minds / 9:30 Brothers and Sisters / 10:30 Heroes
Thu:
8:30 One of those awful new factual shows, probably about criminals / 9:30 The Amazing Race / 10:30 Lost
Eli Stone has been steadily gaining viewers now almost at 800k. Even though its canceled it isn’t doing too shabby, Seven should think about making it a 9:30pm show during ratings season, even if its just to plug the holes of a failed show. Come to think of it, if they fast-tracked season 2 to come out of Grey’s Anatomy at 9:30pm on Sundays, I can see that going well, although they’re likely to use that slot for either Lipstick Jungle or Private Practise instead.
any ratins for prison breaks final David?
Love how Temptation (which ch9 dumped) is out rating Sudden Impact Sudden Impact.
The announcement of the new Dr Who didn’t help Party Animals much.
Tennis on means 7 will win news. Cricket gets 9 to win news ratings.
Its not only the news and current affairs that benefit from the lead in, you see higher figures continue further – its even helped Temptation!
Networks need to learn and understand how important flow on and lead in is. Its very similar concept to djing at a function or club – if you chop and change your music style every song, you’ll have noone dancing.
“Bones performing very well over summer”
With Bones you’ll probably find there are many people like me who missed it first time around & are now fans. I didn’t think much of it originally & only started watching again in S3 & since it’s become one of my favorite shows.
so 9 news/ACA get a 500k boost with cricket lead in (used to get 900k). i wonder how high 7news/TT (used to get 1.3-1.5mil) will get when they make up all lost ground when the tennis starts and the cricket settles down.
K&K’s numbers rose by 100k after being pushed further into the night. . .odd
What a joke! The ACA story on Magda’s “emotional battle” with weight was just a hidden infomercial for Jenny Craig!
It seems its only current affairs if you pay to get your story told!
A month’s delay for the Dr Who Xmas special is a big improvement on last year, when I think the delay was about six months. Didn’t stop me from downloading it on Boxing Day though.
How’s Futurama doing?
Not too well, I’d imagine.
And the new episodes haven’t exactly been rating very well either. What the hell is wrong with Ten? They’re slowly killing both Simpsons and Futurama by pairing them with the most ridiculously incompatible shows.
ACA and 9 News are getting a good boost out of the cricket. Will be interesting to see how much of this audience it can hold on to
HIMYM and Temptation very close, though Temptation particularly had poor retention. Interesting that 2.5 Men beat The Rich List on Sunday, yet The Rich List won on Monday. Perhaps with viewers now knowing TRL is on Sunday’s it will pull out a few more wins?
Bones performing very well over summer, The Mentalist doing about what CSI rpts were doing, which is poor, though these episodes have only just aired.
Judging by Kath & Kim’s big 11.30 numbers, im assuming Scrubs rpts had their usual large 600k audience. So deserves another primetime shot.
Cant blame Ten for removing Next Top Model with an audience like that.
Most of the references on the show go over my head, but the situations they get into are really funny. I can sort of see why you gave up with BBT in the first place – when nine yanked it, i wasn’t too fussed either way, but a few months later i thought i might as well watch the rest online and it got a lot better. The one thing that does annoy me with that show is the over the top laugh track, but that’s only occasionally.
Part of the appeal for me is I’m a bit of a nerd and can relate to all the Trek/sci-fi movie stuff. Hopefully it starts to pick up like it is in the states where it becoming quite the hit for CBS.
Wow there’s a lot of love for TBBT here. I watched the first few eps and thought it was annoying, the characters were really stereotyped nerds and I didn’t find the constant references to quantum physics and mathematical formulae amusing. It was kind of like Numb3rs as a comedy, although for some reason it didn’t quite work. I might give it another shot though now that ppl are saying its fun, although it might not have the quality of Sunny, it might still be worth another look
I’d never thought I’d say this but I must agree with those who’ve said they’re enjoying Big Bang Theory. It’s funnier than your average US sitcom, and although occassionally crass, can be clever at times. Although that Sheldon is starting to grate.
Wow at ACA and 9 News. See with a half decent lead in they can actually rate really well. Bones is still doing surprising well. BTW loving the Big Bang Theory at the moment.
@jerome: i thought the same. that story made me more excited for the new season of K&K.
very unorthodox for ACA to do something tv-related, without finding 50 ways to promote themselves, was anyone watching it in the lead up to the premier of sea patrol?
Yeh looks like people just love magda. I watched it (no neighbours!) & I’m hoping magda reaches her goal she’s a lovely person.
Even Temptation topped 1m
LOL, ACA finally tops the night and it was through a promotion for a 7 show. <what’s that saying
they showed some of the funniest parts of kath and kim like the (not exact quotes)
kath:”what are you wearing kim”
kim: “its my new camoflauge tankini”
sharon: “it’s not camouflauging much kim”
Well done to Nine News and ACA. Great to see them back on top.
A Current Affair topped. I guessing it was the Magda Factor.
Reason 9 and 10′s and S.B.S. problem: They have no idea who their audience is so their programming is all over the place.
At least 7 (lower-middle Australia) and the A.B.C. (Older Educated professionals with a good younger audience on occasions) have an idea who their audience is, and so they have consistent ratings.
Well I will enter the favourite Channel debate. I dont really have one. I will watch what ever interests me. I vent like all of you, especially when my fave new show gtes axed moved or whatever. But for me it is in cycles. Ch9 irritated me the most by moving Canal Road (still not happy, I need to build a bridge, but wish it had been given a go for a second season). However I know some of my fave timeslots this year will be different, with City Homicide returning from a stupid mid season (we have enough ratings stuff our viewers) to Mondays where Desperate Housewives used to be. (Ch 7 want better ratings on Sunday and Greys is set to follow at 9.30, so where does that Leave my real US fave Brothers and Sisters.
ABC has some great Aussie shows coming this year season 2 of Bed of Roses and East of Everything and. I give Ch 10 a go, but cannot think of much that will grab me at this stage.
I watched Top Model.
Benno,yeah very funny episode..i love 2.5men but i think tbbt has surpassed it as my favorite sitcom.
tommyk don’t be silly,there’s plenty of irrational nine bashing on here. can we just leave this forum for discussion of ratings?
cpandilo..2.5 Men is the perfect lead in but the new eps next year will rate much better giving TBBT a much better lead in. Season 6 is supposed to be brilliant so it should rate very well next year.
Was sunday’s Big Bang Theory the one about the peanut reaction? That episode was hillarious.
ok, i’m not going to hold this in.
knoxoverstreet, many of us have networks that we prefer, but no one has taken it as far as you, and lots of people on this site have realised.
your not helping anyone it, everything you say is so unbalanced and uncredible. nobody listens to people like that, why would you waste your time on a site like this.
PS. may i ask, why 9? what have they done to deserve such loyalty?
The Big Bang Theory getting 944,000 for its timeslot at this time of year is quite good, considering that it got eighth place overall on Sunday night and it won its timeslot in total people so I am quite happy – though I’d rather see prime-time programs at this time of year get at least 1 million which Two And A Half Men is getting so I’m happy.
knoxoverstreet, what lead in would you have in mind for The Big Bang Theory? I think Two And A Half Men is doing a good job. Though they could both do better on Mondays.
JJR I notice your not a little sick of all the anti-Nine or pro-Seven comments *insert sarcastic smilie* Clearly your a 7 fan. Just chillax dude we all have our favorite stations not just me!
I’d advise you don’t read my comments in future for the sake of your health !
I need to clarify I like 2.5 Men it’s mindless fun, but unless I’m waiting for the next show I’m not watching endless re-runs 10 times a week!
BTW all the networks do dumb programing moves, what happened to Knight Rider ch7 promised or Primeval on ch9, and does ch10 have the rights to Started Wife season 2? And it’s not just the commercial channels, ABC waiting a month to air the Doctor Who xMas special and SBS with Top Gear more than 2 months old. These last 2 are top show we want to see now!
In the case of Doctor Who why wait a month? Is it for the rating because correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the ABC a commercial free channel so rating don’t matter for ad revenue?
Sorry for the rant.
Some people are very passionate about their favourite network yes….The username confusion on this particular site doesn’t help me any either….
I’m a little sick of reading a pro-Nine comment from “knoxoverstreet” on almost every article on here. Regardless of whether me or other readers agree or not, it’s absolutely comic how much spin he or she puts on everything!
“Tone it down in ’09″ please mate!!
I dunno BBT getting almost 1m on a low rating night isn’t too shabby. With a larger lead in it could easily get 1m+ and be a winner for Nine especially as it does well in the younger demos. Good to see 2.5 Men rpts pick up as well bodes well for the excellent 6th season which is rating through the roof in the states.
I bet those Rich List contestants are happy these episodes are finally airing (especially the winners who walked away with 400k and 100k!)
I’m surprised TT hadn’t jumped on the same ship as ACA (Investigating National Bingo Night), by looking into all those filmed episodes of 1 vs 100 that have been filmed, but have not aired……Not that im complaining. That sort of dog shit journalism needs to outlawed.
Channel 7 cost the Rich List 100k to 200 k in viewers, because it didn’t advertise that it was on, on Sunday very well. No one knew about it, and we watched idiotic 2.5 men without knowing.
BBT dropped almost 200,000 viewers after 2.5 men, I really thought it might actually turn into a hit for Nine. I guess not. They’re starting season 2 now though which is probably a good thing, seeing as Til Death is all but axed in the US and it may not be around on Nine for much longer.
I watched a bit of Shallow Hal n enjoyed it, but it was only around 5 mins. I might have to d/l the rest and see how the start went.
And after a slightly lacklustre 3rd season it was good to see The Office get some comedy back into itself in last night’s ep. Good stuff, pity I’m not an Oztam/Nielsen/whatever it is that gets counted for ratings household
2.5 Men is building again (guess the idiots are back from holidays LOL) good to see Big Bang is holding on with almost 1 Million, hope it stays and we don’t have 10x 2.5 Men this year.
Magnificent 7 deserved better. It was excellent.
hope nine is somehow capturing its news winning moments. that way it’ll last longer