Boland leaves Sunrise on top

Adam Boland has bowed out as boss of Seven’s Sunrise with one last big ratings win on his last day.

The show’s Hawaii special drew an audience of 431,000 on Thursday morning, beating Nine rival Today which rated 319,000, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.

Menawhile, the final of Seven’s Beauty and the Geek Australia was the only entertainment show to make an impact in primetime, rating 1.224m for the winner announcement.  

The final episode of the series if Getway rated just under 900,000 for Nine, while Ten’s double episodes of Rush averaged 672,000 and 688,000.

Meanwhile, the first day of The Ashes averaged 601,000 for Nine.

1. Nine News Nine 1.271m
2. Seven News Seven 1.237m
3. Beauty and the Geek – Winner Revealed Seven 1.224m
4. Today Tonight Seven 1.153m
5. Beauty and the Geek Seven 1.100m
6. A Current Affair Nine 1.037m
7. ABC News ABC 0.948m
8. Home and Away Seven 0.937m
9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nine 0.921m
10. Bondi Vet Ten 0.908m
11. Keeping Up with the Joneses Ten 0.905m
12. Getaway Nine 0.897m
13. Two and a Half Men Nine 0.821m
14. The Amazing Race Seven 0.797m
15. The 7:30 Report ABC 0.720m

Thursday’s share:

• Seven: 25.4%
• Nine: 23.5%
• Ten: 17.9%
• ABC1: 12.6%
• GO!: 4.4%
• SBS1: 3.3%
• 7TWO 2.7%
• 7mate: 2.4%
• Gem: 2.4%
• ABC2: 1.9%
• One: 1.4%
• SBS2: 0.8%
• ABC News 24: 0.7%
• ABC3: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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topics Adam Boland Beauty and the Geek Australia Getaway OzTam ratings Rush Sunrise television The Ashes Today TV

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