Seven’s Revenge a hit with 2m
Seven’s new thriller series Revenge made a strong debut on Monday night, rating with over 2m across the five city metro, according to preliminary results from OzTam.
The heavily promoted US show, about a girl seeking revenge for the false imprisonment of her father, knocked Seven’s other hit My Kitchen Rules from the top of the ratings for the first time this year.
While Revenge won all demographics, it was the biggest hit with the 25-54 demo, with 1m across the five cities.
The cooking show placed second overall while still equaling its strongest showing of 1.66m.
Nine’s Big Bang Theory was third overall with 1.48m viewers.
Up against Revenge in the 8:30pm slot, Nine also debuted its new prison thriller Alcatraz, with a double episode.
Alcatraz’s first episode ranked eighth over all and took 1.12m viewers. The second episode ranked nineth with 1.03m viewers.
Monday night’s top 15 shows:
1. Revenge Seven 2.067m
2. My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.673m
3. The Big Bang Theory – 8:00pm Nine 1.491m
4. Seven News Seven 1.374m
5. The Big Bang Theory – 7:30pm Nine 1.347m
6. Today Tonight Seven 1.323m
7. Nine News Nine 1.152m
8. Alcatraz – Episode 1 Nine 1.133m
9. Home and Away Seven 1.039m
10. Alcatraz – Episode 2 Nine 1.036m
11. ABC News ABC 1.000m
12. The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm Nine 0.954m
13. A Current Affair Nine 0.907m
14. Australian Story ABC 0.846m
15. How I Met Your Mother – Episode 1 Seven 0.814m
Monday’s channel share:
Seven: 28.4%
Nine: 23.8%
ABC1: 13.0%
Ten: 10.6%
7TWO: 3.5%
GO!: 2.8%
Eleven: 2.8%
SBS1: 2.7%
Gem: 2.7%
One: 2.7%
7mate: 2.5%
ABC2: 2.2%
SBS2: 1.2%
ABC3: 0.6%
ABC News 24: 0.6%
This show is AWESOME. Totally addicted 🙂
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Great show, yes. However, half of Sydney (and I dare say most of the metro caps) has already downloaded eps 1 – 15.
Piracy 1-0-1.
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Love to know if this is the biggest American drama debut on Australian TV? Or the biggest since the days of Desperate Housewives debut?
Such a great show.
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@Max Episode 15 hasn’t even aired in the US – so I am nto sure how half of Sydney has downloaded it.
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I’m with you Max. iTunes/Apple TV comes in very handy with new shows from the US.
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@hmmm – apologies typo. I meant eps 1-14. My condolences to Network 7 and Disney owned ABC America.
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I’m with Max. Don’t even need iTunes for it. Love the show – especially watching each episode on the day of release.
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@Max. If half of Sydney have already got it then maybe word of mouth helped kick it off to what is ratings gold for Seven last night. The strategy has worked before. Is that the piracy 1-0-1 you mention? Arggghhhh!
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I don’t know a single person who hasn’t already seen episode 14 of Revenge or 6 of Alcatraz. Nevermind who is waiting for Season 2 of Homeland.
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What ever happened to fast track? I thought that the networks realised people were not wanting to wait 3 months for US content so they would air it closer to the date. I kind of get it for sitcoms or shows that dont have a story but something like Revenge or Homeland where you want to know what happens next, it just doesnt make sense.
I am not a dowloader but i did go and read what happens in the last few eps of Homeland.
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Not really that popular a torrent compared to shows like Walking Dead and Spartacus.
Pretty mediocre show too.
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