Utopia return draws 779,000 to the ABC with Bachelor the most watched non-news program
The return of ABC comedy Utopia for a second season drew 779,000 viewers last night making it the second most watched non-news program of Wednesday night.
It was only beaten in the non-news stakes by Ten’s The Bachelor, for an episode which had the bachelorettes herding sheep, and which drew a metro audience of 877,000 viewers across the five cities, according to Oztam overnight metro ratings.
Wednesday night was a quiet evening for television viewing with only news and current affairs viewing pulling audiences of over one million, with Seven winning the night with a main channel audience share 19.7 per cent.
In news, Nine News drew 1.123m viewers in the 6pm slow compared with 1.009m for Seven News while in the 6.30pm slot Nine had 1.08m and Seven had 1.009m.
At 7pm A Current Affair had an audience of 1.004m while Home and Away drew 783,000 viewers.
While The Bachelor won the 7.30pm timeslot The Hotplate audience was up marginally on last week with 775,000 viewers, but trailed Border Security which drew 811,000 at 7.30 and then and The Force which had 850,000.
The interest in Utopia appears to have buoyed The Weekly with Charlie Pickering which was up 57,000 viewers on last week with 689,000 viewers last night.
In the audience shares Seven won the night but Nine had a main channel audience share of 17.9 per cent, the ABC had 14 per cent while Ten had 13 per cent.
Top 15 shows
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,123,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,080,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,009,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,004,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 974,000
6 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA Network TEN 877,000
7 ABC NEWS Network ABC 854,000
8 THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE Network 7 850,000
9 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Network 7 811,000
10 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 783,000
11 UTOPIA Network ABC 779,000
12 THE HOTPLATE Network 9 775,000
13 CRIMINAL MINDS Network 7 760,000
14 7.30 Network ABC 744,000
15 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING Network ABC 689,000
Audience Share
Network 7 19.7%
Network 9 17.9%
Network ABC 14.0%
Network TEN 13.0%
Network 7TWO 5.4%
Network ABC2 4.8%
Network SBS ONE 4.6%
Network Gem 4.3%
Network GO! 4.1%
Network 7mate 3.6%
Network ELEVEN 3.2%
Network ONE 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.6%
Network SBS 2 1.3%
Network ABC3 0.4%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience share
Network 7 TTL 28.6%
Network 9 TTL 26.2%
Network ABC TTL 20.7%
Network TEN TTL 18.4%
Network SBS TTL 6.0%
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Didn’t these non-news shows also beat Utopia?
8 THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE Network 7 850,000
9 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Network 7 811,000
10 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 783,000
11 UTOPIA Network ABC 779,000
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Utopi was very funny. I hadn’t laughed out loud in a long time. That forklift was a cracker.
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