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Australian TV viewers opt for Mrs Brown

Mrs brownThe most popular entertainment show on Australian television last night was comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys.

The sitcom rated 963,000 for Seven, with not a single non-news and current affairs show topping 1m. A second episode of the show rated 430,000 while similarly broad British comedy Citizen Khan rated 481,000 according to preliminary metro overnight ratings from OzTAM.

Nine’s biggest show was The Footy Show, which rated 742,000 while Top Gear rated 668,000.

Ten had its most competitive night of the week to date with Law and Order SVU rating 623,000.

ABC1 also had a decent night with Our Queen rating 857,000 and The Checkout rating 840,000.

Nine’s Today narrowly beat Seven’s Sunrise in the morning battle.

Thursday’s top 15 shows:

  1. Nine News Nine 1.174
  2. Seven News Seven 1.142
  3. ABC News ABC 0.993
  4. A Current Affair Nine 0.969
  5. Mrs Brown’s Boys Seven 0.963
  6. Today Tonight Seven 0.958
  7. Home and Away Seven 0.917
  8. Our Queen ABC 0.857
  9. The Checkout ABC 0.840
  10. The Footy Show – AFL and NRL Nine 0.742
  11. 7:30 ABC 0.690
  12. Ten News Ten 0.679
  13. Top Gear Nine 0.668
  14. Hot Seat Nine 0.654
  15. Law and Order: SVU – Episode 1 Ten 0.623

Channel share:

  • ABC1: 15.6%
  • Seven: 20.1%
  • Nine: 19.8%
  • Ten: 13.7%
  • SBS1: 4.9%
  • ABC2: 3.1%
  • ABC3: 0.6%
  • ABC News 24: 1.0%
  • 7TWO: 4.8%
  • 7mate: 2.7%
  • GO!: 4.1%
  • Gem: 2.7%
  • One: 2.5%
  • Eleven: 3.2%
  • SBS2: 1.1%
  • NITV: 0.1%

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