ABC’s Whitlam doco rates just under 1m

Tim Burrowes

May 27, 2013 9:22

ABC1’s biographical focus on Sunday night saw documentary Whitlam: The Power And The Passion rate 983,000 while Cliffy, the biopic of ultramarathon runner Cliff Young, rated 927,000.

Meanwhile, the most watched program of Sunday was Seven News, which rated 1.56m according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

The Block rated 1.476m. Nine’s 60 Minutes also had another strong night, rating 1.405m.

Among local dramas, A Place To Call Home rated 1.16m for Seven while House Husbands rated 1.034m for Nine.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

Mike Frazer 27 May 13

‘A Place to call Home’ would probably rate even better IF IT STARTED ON TIME !!!
It invariably starts 15 minutes late, due to the stretched-out reality show bollocks that precedes it.

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tom 27 May 13

what tv over run with advertisments and repeats the tv is slowly going down the shit tube

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