60 Minutes tops the night with 1.4m viewers helping Nine claim top spot
A special 60 Minutes examining the police investigation of Gerard Baden-Clay, along with an interview with his mistress of four years Toni McHugh, drew an audience of 1.41m viewers and was the highest rating program of Sunday night for Nine.
The strong performance helped Nine win the night with an audience share of 24.7 per cent, well up on their performance from 20.4 per cent last week according to OzTam preliminary overnight ratings.
Sunday night saw audiences up across the board for all the major network franchises with The X Factor drawing an audience of 1.27m while The Voice Kids drew 1.22m.Ten’s Masterchef had 1.07m viewers as contestants made a banana split with a twist, as the show moves into its final week with nightly eliminations with the cooking show helping Ten beat rival Seven in Melbourne where it had 16.9 per cent audience compared to 16.3 per cent.
However, Ten’s new sci-fi show Extant, featuring Halle Berri, had 556,000 well down on last week where it debuted with 614,000 viewers.
In the news stakes Nine News drew 1.35m nationally with Seven News close behind with 1.31m at 6pm.
Seven’s audience share dropped to 19.8 per cent down from 23.3 per cent last week, while Ten had 14.4 per cent down from 15.8 per cent last week where it was buoyed by an exclusive interview with swimmer Ian Thorpe, which only managed to grab another 42,000, or 4.3 per cent, on catch up.
However, the cancelled A Place to Call Home’s final episode was the most time shifted show for Seven with 256,000 watching on catch up, a 24.4 per cent lift on its 1.047m viewers.
In overall share on the main channels for last week Seven had 20.5 per cent, Nine 19.2 per cent, Ten 14.4 per cent, the ABC had 12.3 per cent and SBS 5.7 per cent.
Top 15 shows
1. 60 Minutes Nine – 1.41m
2. Nine News – Nine – 1.35m
3. Seven News Seven – 1.31m
4. X Factor – Seven – 1.27m
5. The Voice Kids – Nine 1.22m
6. House Husbands – Nine – 1.16m
7. Masterchef – Ten – 1.07m
8. The Checkout Snack Size – ABC 989,000
9. ABC News – ABC – 910,000
10. Grand Designs – ABC – 892,000
11. Sunday Night – Seven – 873,000
12. ABC News Update – ABC – 864,000
13. Silent Witness – ABC – 670,000
14. Modern Family Repeat – Ten – 656,000
15. The Mentalist – Nine – 640,000
Audience Share
Network 9 24.7%
Network 7 19.6%
Network TEN 14.4%
Network ABC1 11.9%
Network SBS ONE 5.1%
Network GO! 4.3%
Network 7TWO 3.8%
Network ELEVEN 3.3%
Network ONE 3.1%
Network 7mate 3.0%
Network ABC2 2.5%
Network Gem 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network SBS 2 0.5%
Network NITV 0.1%
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