SHANE Warne might be permanently in the doghouse these days but he’s welcome into the homes of 2.5 million television viewers.
The
former cricketer’s popularity with TV viewers was reinforced when an
additional 300,000 people tuned in for his appearance on the Seven
network’s Kath and Kim on Sunday night.
Since debuting with an audience of 2.51 million viewers in August,
the series has averaged 2.02 million viewers each week and been the No1
program for all but two weeks.
The heavily promoted season finale of Jane Turner and Gina Riley’s
sitcom averaged 2.304 million viewers in the five metropolitan capital
cities.
On Sunday night, Warne played a Shane Warne impersonator.
He married Magda Szubanski’s Sharon Strzelecki at Melbourne’s Luna Park.
Warne’s appeal beyond the cricket pitch was emphasised in January
when his interview with Michael Parkinson on the UKTV channel became
the most watched non-sport program on subscription television to that
point.
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