The ABC’s cuts specials deliver bumper audiences as Big Bang Theory repeat wins night
The second part of Bob Hawke’s life story and the Media Watch and Q&A specials looking at the future of the ABC were enough to give the public broadcaster a healthy lift last night, with a 17.8 audience share.
The Q&A special on the state of the media enjoyed a significant boost getting 730,000 viewers at 9.35pm, up from 552,000 last week, winning its timeslot. Meanwhile Media Watch, which revealed the extent of the ABC cuts at 9.20pm had 786,000 viewers, up on 722,000 last week. Both shows beat Nine’s Big Brother, which had 653,000 viewers, up marginally on last week, and was the most watched show amongst people aged 16 – 39.
The public broadcaster pulled in a bigger audience share than Seven in both Sydney and Melbourne, with 19.8 per cent and 19.4 per cent compared to Seven’s 17.9 per cent and 16.7 per cent, and was only marginally behind Nine, whoich won the night with 19.6 per cent, and Seven which had 18.3 per cent, according to the OzTam overnight metro ratings.
Nine’s repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory at 8pm was the most watched show of the night, pulling an audience of 1.046m, just beating the ABC’s Australian Story which saw 955,000 viewers tune in for part two of the story of former prime minister Bob Hawke. Last week part one of Hawke’s Australian Story was watched by 965,000 viewers.
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In the 7.30pm timeslot, a repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory was watched by 977,000, beating the ABC’s 7.30 which saw 827,000 viewers tune in.
Both shows out-rated Seven’s Highway Patrol which was was watched by 785,000 which in turn beat Ten’s Gold Coast Cops which had an audience of 491,000.
The second repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory was the most popular show amongst the 18 – 49 and 25 -54 demographics.
Also on the ABC, Four Corners at 8.30pm won its timeslot with an audience of 857,000, beating Seven’s The Blacklist which pulled an audience of 774,000, up from 737,000 viewers last week.
The Blacklist was the most time-shifted show of the week, grabbing an extra 171,000 viewers to take its total audience to 907,000.
Ten’s most-watched show of the evening was the simulcast of Family Feud at 6pm which drew 602,000 viewers.
In the news battleground, Nine News at 6pm was watched by 987,000 viewers compared to Seven News’ 924,000 viewers. At 6.30pm Nine News dropped away to 977,000 while Seven News/Today Tonight slipped to 902,000.
Top 15 Shows
1 THE BIG BANG THEORY -RPT EP2 Network 9 1,046,000
2 AUSTRALIAN STORY-EV Network ABC 995,000
3 NINE NEWS Network 9 987,000
4 THE BIG BANG THEORY -RPT Network 9 977,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 977,000
6 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 924,000
7 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 912,000
8 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 902,000
9 FOUR CORNERS-EV Network ABC 857,000
10 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 837,000
11 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 835,000
12 7.30-EV Network ABC 827,000
13 MEDIA WATCH-EV Network ABC 786,000
14 HIGHWAY PATROL Network 7 785,000
15 THE BLACKLIST Network 7 774,000
Audience Share
Network 9 19.6%
Network 7 18.3%
Network ABC 17.8%
Network TEN 11.7%
Network 7TWO 5.7%
Network GO! 4.9%
Network 7mate 3.5%
Network ONE 3.3%
Network ABC2 3.3%
Network Gem 3.1%
Network ELEVEN 2.9%
Network SBS ONE 2.9%
Network ABC News 24 1.3%
Network ABC3 0.9%
Network SBS 2 0.7%
Network NITV 0.2%
Total Audience Share
Network 9 TTL 27.6%
Network 7 TTL 27.5%
Network ABC TTL 23.2%
Network TEN TTL 18.0%
Network SBS TTL 3.7%
Ratings data is copyright OzTAM and may not be reproduced, published or communicated without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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