SBS soars, Ten sinks, Nine stagnates

10Aug09

National Ratings, week ending August 08
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

After a strong start, thanks to Meryl Streep and Shaun Micallef, it’s back to business as usual for Channel Ten — or no-business-as-usual, to be precise — now that its 7pm drawcard has vanished. The week ended with the prime time audience shares thus: Seven 28.7 per cent, Nine 23.8, Ten 21.5, ABC 17.1, SBS 8.9 (thanks entirely to cricket).

Time for your prediction: how will Australian Idol go this year? Will the removal of Kyle lift its popularity, or had it passed its prime in any case?

Just for a change, what viewers aged 16-39 watched:

1 TALKIN’ ‘BOUT YOUR GENERATION Ten 593,000

2 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA RPT Ten 562,000

3 PACKED TO THE RAFTERS Seven 549,000

4 SPICKS AND SPECKS ABC1 513,000

5 THE SIMPSONS WED Ten 488,000

6 TWO AND A HALF MEN Nine 477,000

7 GOOD NEWS WEEK Ten 474,000

8 THE ALL NEW SIMPSONS WED Ten 457,000

9 WORLD’S STRICTEST PARENTS Seven 440,000

10 MIRACLE OF THE HUDSON PLANE CRASH Seven 409,000

11 THE BIG BANG THEORY Nine 405,000

12 ERAGON Ten 401,000

13 RUSH Ten 393,000 95,000

14 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 391,000

15 UNITED STATES OF TARA ABC1 382,000

Popularity: 1%

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