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The Block helps Nine win night as ABC’s Doctor Who and ANZAC Girls most time shifted shows

A reveal episode of The Block helped Nine win Sunday night with a metropolitan audience of 1.548m tuning in for the renovation show, with the ABC showing improved viewership for Doctor Who and ANZAC Girls to again beat Ten for audience share.

While Nine won the night on the back of strong performances for The Block, Nine News (1.3m) and 60 Minutes (1.2m), Seven came in second with the X Factor pulling exactly the same audience as last Sunday at 6.30pm, while 1.095m tuned in Sunday Night at 8.30pm to watch Australian journalist Amanda Goff reveal her secret life as a high class escort, whil Seven News got 1.202m.

On the ABC Doctor Who drew an improved audience at 7.30pm of 748,000 from 710,000 on its debut, while ANZAC Girls following it drew 800,000, up from 758,000 last week. Those shows were also the most time shifted of last week with 199,000 tuning in later for the BBC show while the World World I got another 169,000 viewers according to OzTam preliminary overnight metro ratings.

Ten’s highest rating program of the night was  for the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which drew 564,000 viewers. Repeat episodes of Modern Family drew 552,000 and 424,000 respectively.

In the news stakes Seven News trailed its rival with 1.207m metro viewers compared with 1.32m for Nine for the 6pm Sunday news bulletins.

In terms of audience share on the main channel Nine won the night with 24.1 per cent, Seven had 21.7 per cent, the ABC had 13.1 per cent, while Ten had 11.3 per cent and SBS 4.2 per cent.

Top 15 Shows
1 THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE Network 9 1,548,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,320,000
3 60 MINUTES Network 9 1,207,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,202,000
5 THE X FACTOR LIVE PERFORMANCE Network 7 1,115,000
6 SUNDAY NIGHT Network 7 1,095,000
7 ABC NEWS Network ABC1 853,000
8 ANZAC GIRLS Network ABC1 800,000
9 DOCTOR WHO Network ABC1 748,000
10 ABC NEWS UPDATE Network ABC1 635,000
11 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Network TEN 564,000
12 MODERN FAMILY EP 2 RPT Network TEN 552,000
13 CASTLE Network 7 536,000
14 THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE Network ABC1 497,000
15 MODERN FAMILY RPT Network TEN 424,000

Audience Share
Network 9 24.1%
Network 7 21.7%
Network ABC1 13.1%
Network TEN 11.3%
Network GO! 5.1%
Network SBS ONE 4.2%
Network 7TWO 4.2%
Network ELEVEN 3.3%
Network 7mate 3.1%
Network Gem 3.0%
Network ONE 2.5%
Network ABC2 1.9%
Network ABC3 0.6%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network SBS 2 0.7%
Network NITV 0.1%

Total audience share
Network 9 TTL 32.3%
Network 7 TTL 29.1%
Network TEN TTL 17.1%
Network ABC TTL 16.6%
Network SBS TTL 4.9%

Data copyright of OzTAM Pty Limited 2014. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.

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