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Big Bang Theory helps Nine across the line

Nine won Wednesday night’s ratings battle, although the race was closer without The Voice in the schedule.

The network a 23.2% per cent of the evening’s free to air viewing, just ahead of Seven’s 21.8% according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Two episodes of The Big Bang Theory drew in the highest number of viewers for any entertainment show last night, with 1.288m tuning into the first new episode of the show, and another 1.24m for the second episode at 8pm.

New American adventure drama Arrow delivered  1.107m viewers for Nine, while Seven had 1.126m viewers for The Force, Behind the Line.

Mr and Mrs Murder had slightly more viewers than last week for Ten, with a total 523,000 recorded overnight. Meanwhile, the show’s star Shaun Micallef also starred on ABC1’s Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, which had 671,000 metro viewers.

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

Wednesday’s top 15 shows:

  1. Seven News – Seven – 1.322 m
  2. The Big Bang Theory – Nine – 1.288m
  3. Nine News – Nine – 1.278m
  4. The Big Bang Theory, Rpt Ep2 – Nine – 1.240m
  5. The Force, Behind the Line – Seven – 1.126m
  6. Arrow – Nine – 1.107m
  7. A Current Affair – Nine – 1.060m
  8. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.005m
  9. Highway Patrol – Seven – 0.988m
  10. ABC News, EV – ABC1 – 0.970m
  11. Home and Away – Seven – 0.945m
  12. The Big Bang Theory, Rpt – Nine – 0.869m
  13. Criminal Minds – Seven – 0.762m
  14. 7.30-ev – ABC1 – 0.722m
  15. Ten News at Five – Ten – 7.22m

Channel share:

  • Nine – 23.2%
  • Seven – 21.8%
  • ABC1 – 12.4%
  • Ten – 12%
  • SBS1 – 4.7%
  • 7TWO – 4.2%
  • 7Mate- 3.9%
  • GO! – 3.9%
  • Gem – 3.6%
  • Eleven – 3%
  • ABC2 – 3%
  • One – 1.8%
  • ABC News 24 – 1%
  • SBS2 – 0.8%
  • ABC3 – 0.7%
  • NITV – 0.1%

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