Nine wins Sunday, ABC tops TEN.
The Block and 60 Minutes help Nine win the night but TEN falls to fourth place behind the ABC.
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Nine took the lead on Sunday night while TEN had to suffer the indignation of being bettered by the ABC.
The Block lifted to its best figure all season on a high of 1.95m viewers. It looks certain to break the 2m barrier for its 2 hour finale next Sunday night.
It thumped Sunday Night (1.12m), Bondi Vet (601,000). ABC News was 768,000.
60 Minutes’ much publicised interview with Sarah Ferguson pulled a big crowd of 1.67m, beating Grand Designs (1.09m), Highway Patrol / The Force (897,000 / 960,000), The Renovators (664,000) and Riddles Of The Sphinx (339,000).
Midsomer Murders won at 8:30pm on 1.25m over Bones (1.15m), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (575,000), Terminator Salvation (503,000) and Hubble’s Amazing Rescue (141,000).
At 9:30pm Castle was 816,000.
ABC2’s arvo show Gaspard And Lisa was the top multichannel show on 272,000.
With a stronger offering than Terminator Nine would have finished the night with a much bigger lead on Seven, but it was still enough to take out Sunday.
17 Responses
60 Minutes has gone to the pack. Sunday Night is a much better show when it comes to this now. That Michael Usher interview was absolutely appalling and it wasn’t Sarah that was the appalling thing about the interview. I only watched 60 minutes because nothing else interested me last night. Never ever again.
I tuned in to see what the fuss was about. Nothing, as it turns out. Perhaps Michael Usher should have watched Ruby Wax’s interview of Sarah Ferguson, where aside from being quite funny, it was explained that Sarah Ferguson is not allowed to discuss the Queen. Was there no research done prior to the appointment? Or was the prep all about trying to get a “gotcha” moment out of a woman who has admitted she has made mistakes in the past?
I agree with Nwest in that Sarah Ferguson came out looking better than the interviewer, who acted like a bit of a spoilt brat.
@col: That’s a brilliant way to describe it!
@Something better to do.
You’re wrong. These figures are for the metro areas only. The cities contain only 13 million people- 1.6/13 people last night watched 60 Minutes.
@ nwest I thought the 60 Minutes interview was very well done and must see TV and going by the ratings many people thought likewise. If you want intellectually stimulating serious journalism turn to Ten at 6.30pm and watch the last days of Negus while you still have a chance before he gets the boot for poor ratings and lack of audience interest.
Dateline SBS leaves the 60M of 2011 for dead.
I agree…1.67m was a great number…but my point is, how many people watching for the first time in ages will return. It really is only a slight step ahead of the ACA and TT in realation to it’s tabloid journalism. I am sure that it will always maintain a good audience, as both ACA and TT seem to, but I won’t be counted as one of them. It is a bit of an insult that the commercial networks don’t seem to think that the general population can handle serious journalism.
Ten missing MC that’s for sure. Nor much on offer anywhere really.
Meant to watch that hubble show though, plum forgot.
1.67 million is a respectable figure for a network program these days.. but also worth noting that close to 20 million other Australians had something better to do/watch. 😉
Thought Bondi Vet was good though.
@deedeedragons , That shot of her reminds me of one of those really agro cats that never look happy.pphhssst meow.
@nwest considering 60 Minutes reached 1.67 million viewers I think you are lone in that opinion
@Jezza
Agreed – we’ve given up on Renovators, in part coz we thought it would be more like Grand Designs – actually seeing the progress of the renovations, enjoying the success/progress and getting caught up in the drama of late-delivered triple glazed Scandinavian windows… but instead Renovators gives us nonsense challenges and next to no screen time of the houses.
watched 60 minutes for the first time in years…and the last I hope. The Sarah Ferguson interview was appalling. So she objected to the manner in which the questions were being asked…too tabloid like she felt (it is 60 minutes…what did she expect!). She wanted some time out to cool down, which seemd like a good idea. Michael Usher then seemd p*ssed that she was no longer his best friend. It was meant to be a serious interview, not a 10 minute spped dating session.
Unfortunately 60 Minutes is still making the interviewer the hero of the story and as a viewer I could not give a damn about them. The tpae spoke for itself and Sarah Ferguson was the only one who came out looking anything like a professional.
If only there was something else to watch on a Sunday night…back to Foxtel from next week.
Love the picture LOL.
Maybe The Block getting in first has softened The Renovators in a similar way MKR did MC
Grand Designs v Renovators…….reality v silly challanges