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Drama wins as 800 Words tops Tuesday ratings

Ratings: Seven takes its third night of the week and Ray Martin wraps Who Do You Think You Are? on a season high for SBS.

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Score one for drama production with 800 Words topping the ratings last night.

Seven’s drama drew 1.19m viewers for its second episode. The dip of just 27,000 was not huge, and not unexpected for second episodes. Generally they are even bigger.

Seven had a good night out with X Factor and Seven News both winning their timeslots.

TEN’s TBL Families was up slightly on its Monday performance, at 534,000 but is down 196,000 compared to last Tuesday. Life Story lifted by 56,000 for Nine.

Ray Martin’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode was a season high for SBS on 465,000.

Seven network won with 32.3% then Nine 26.3%, TEN 18.1%, ABC 16.7% and SBS 6.6%.

800 Words (1.19m) topped the night for Seven then The X Factor (1.09m), Seven News (1.07m / 1.01m), Home and Away (791,000), The Chase (642,000 / 443,000) and Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (532,000). Chicago Fire was 239,000.

Nine News (1.03m / 994,000) was best for Nine then A Current Affair (1.03m), The Block (858,000), David Attenborough’s Life Story (555,000) and Hot Seat (543,000). CSI was 275,000.

The Project (616,000 / 445,000) led for TEN. TBL Families was 530,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 529,000, NCIS was 348,000 and NCIS: LA was 319,000.

ABC News was 815,000 on ABC. Next were 7:30 (691,000), Restoration Australia (611,000), Foreign Correspondent (482,000), Antiques Roadshow (329,000) and The Cambodian Space Project (185,000).

Who Do You Think You Are? finished on a high 465,000 for SBS then Dateline (223,000), Insight (215,000) and SBS World News (144,000).

ABC2’s Peg + Cat topped multichannels with 275,000.

The Morning Show: 150,000 / 105,000
Mornings: 122,000 / 95,000
Studio 10: 72,000 / 44,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 22 September 2015

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  2. I’m the opposite of most posters – I tried 800 Words last night (missed last week because I was at a function) and I just found it cringeworthy. I like Erik Thomson but think this is pretty weak work from him. Not a lot of depth to the characters for me. Funny how opinions can be so different!!

    Enjoying X Factor but the advertising was a little ridiculous “the most surprising tv twist this decade” – hyperbole much?! Which is a shame, because the show doesn’t need the over-dramatising.

    2. Loving 800 Words and X factor – a bit of a hyperbole i agree but it was fascinating viewing through the 5 seat challenge. I am also enjoying the fact that within 2 weeks we are already into the live shows.

  5. watched 800W was not as good as last week, but still enjoyable. I was one of many who jumped off the TBL bandwagon and watched the 5 Seat Chall on XF

    Thought XF would be horrible this year but so far so good. I skipped the auditions episodes though.

    1. Yes, am loving 800 Words – some great characters.
      Erik Thompson is perfect in this role and the actress playing the daughter is very good as well.
      I’m sure that many living in small, “out of the way” towns can definitely relate.

      Best local drama (besides Puberty Blues), for a long time.
      Glad to see viewers have embraced it.

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