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Breaking news gives hope to Q & A audience

Ratings: News on the Bali 9 duo was premature on Q & A, and SBS sees a lift thanks to Michael Mosley.

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Last night’s Q & A while discussing the fate of the Bali 9 duo, told viewers that a last ditch legal challenge was set for May 12th, which gave some hope to advocates of a possible stay of execution.

But it was panelist Tanya Plibersek who warned of the risks of optimism without knowing all the context. As it turns out will not be a retrospective judgement by Indonesia’s Constitutional Court.

In lesser news the ABC had a good night in the ratings, as did SBS with its Michael Mosley special even eclipsing a Modern Family rerun on TEN.

But it was Seven’s cooking contest that upstaged once again.

Seven network share was 31.3% then Nine 27.1%, ABC 20.1%, TEN 15.4% and SBS 6.1%.

My Kitchen Rules was strong at 1.55m for Seven then Seven News (1.11m / 1.04m), Home and Away (859,000), Revenge (651,000), Million Dollar Minute (525,000). The movie Legally Blonde was 225,000.

Nine News (1.19m / 1.12m) led for Nine then The Block (1.11m), A Current Affair (1.00m), The Big Bang Theory (711,000 / 628,000), Hot Seat (656,000). Footy Classified was 204,000 in 3 cities.

ABC News (911,000) topped ABC then Australian Story (842,000), 7:30 (786,000), Four Corners (693,000), Media Watch (660,000), Q & A (642,000).

TEN Eyewitness News led for TEN on 642,000. The Project was 598,000 / 454,000 then The Odd Couple (406,000), SVU (371,000), Modern Family (312,000) and Elementary (261,000).

Michael Mosley: Is Your Brain Male or Female? (363,000) was strong for SBS ONE. Next were SBS World News and Tea and Coffee Trails with Simon Reeve (both on 186,000). Strip the Cosmos was 114,000.

Neighbours led multichannels at 271,000.

Sunrise: 332,000
Today: 316,000
ABC News Breakfast: 99,000 / 30,000

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 27 April 2015

4 Responses

    1. Timing indeed. Reminds me of the last-second pulling of The Manchurian Candidate, scheduled by TCN9 for Sunday Night at the Movies, on 24 Nov 1963, the day after JFK’s assassination (23/11/63 Austn time).

    2. You can’t be serious! How dreadful.
      Mind you, viewers of that show are probably completely unaware of what’s going on in Indonesia.
      Not likely to be in tune with actual reality!

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