National TV Ratings week ending 16 Feb

18Feb08

Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

Channel Seven’s hopes of winning the first week of "official"
ratings, boosted when a judge ruled that Victoria could not see Nine’s Underbelly
last Wednesday, were dashed when NIne’s cricket captured viewers over
50 and Ten’s dancing captured viewers under 30 — a pattern which
recurred last night.

Seven’s tentpole programs — Border Security, Desperate Housewives, It Takes Two and Grey’s Anatomy — were well down on last year.

The hits of the week were Ten’s So You Think You Can Dance Australia (1.5m on Monday), the sitcom Back To You (1.3m) and the crime procedural Women’s Murder Club (1.2m); Nine’s CSI (1.5m), RPA (1.3m), and Underbelly (1.3m without Melbourne); Top Gear on
SBS (749,000) and the Apology to the Stolen Generations (total 1.2
million across all channels plus uncountable numbers in schools and
public spaces at 9am on Wednesday).

The flop was was Nine’s local comedy Monster House (793,000). The maybes were Seven’s The Zoo (1.3m) and Dirty Sexy Money (1.1m); and Nine’s The Chopping Block (1.0m) and Terminator (1.0m).

Nine won the week with a prime time average of 28.7 per cent of the
audience, while Seven was on 27.2, Ten on 22.5, ABC on 16.4 and SBS on
5.3. Then Nine easily won Sunday, with Ten bumping Seven out of second place.

What Australia watched, week ending February 16
Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AUSTRALIA – TOP 100 PART 1 Ten 1,601,000
2 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 1,499,000
3 ONE DAY CRICKET – AUSTRALIA V INDIA – GAME 4 SESSION 2 Nine 1,472,000
4 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AUSTRALIA – TOP 100 PART 2 Ten 1,469,000
5 CSI Nine 1,466,000
6 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,448,000
7 ONE DAY CRICKET – AUSTRALIA V SRI LANKA – GAME 6 SESSION 2 Nine 1,389,000
8 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,371,000
9 BACK TO YOU Ten 1,358,000
10 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Seven 1,351,000
11 THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE Seven 1,343,000
12 UNDERBELLY Nine 1,321,000
13 RPA Nine 1,320,000 343,000
14 IT TAKES TWO Seven 1,300,000
15 THE ZOO Seven 1,297,000

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