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Australia’s Got Talent reaches just over 1m in absence of The X Factor

Australia’s Got Talent reached over 1m metro viewers last night for its final performance show before the winner is revealed next Sunday.

In the absence of competition from Seven’s The X Factor, which ended last week, Australia’s Got Talent brought 1.074m to Channel Nine.

Meanwhile Seven’s Dancing with the Stars, now in the Sunday night program schedule, was watched by 1.042m, ranking third in all programs.

Australia’s Got Talent was second for the night behind Seven News, which had 1.103m viewers, however it was the top show in people 25-54.

Ten’s best performer was Elementary, the American Sherlock Holmes drama featuring Aidan Quinn and Lucy Liu, with a 615,000 metro audience.

The Search for the Ocean’s Super Predator, about Great White Sharks, brought 878,000 viewers to ABC1 at 7.30pm and was eighth for the night.

And a documentary about an Australian’s research into the assassination of President John F Kennedy, JFK: The Smoking Gun, by production company Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, had 559,000 metro viewers at 8.30pm. It was SBS’s eighth biggest audience of the year.

Last week, the top program for the week was The X Factor winner announcement, with over 2m metro viewers, followed by Seven’s Dancing with the Stars and The Blacklist.

The final episode of Gruen Planet on ABC1 was 10th for the week with an average metro audience of 1.045m.

Sunday’s top 15 shows:

  1. Seven News Seven 1,103,000
  2. Australia’s Got Talent Grand Final Performances 1,074,000
  3. Dancing with the Stars Seven 1,042,000
  4. Nine News Nine 1,015,000
  5. Sunday Night Seven 995,000
  6. 60 Minutes Nine 934,000
  7. ABC News ABC1 886,000
  8. The Search for the Ocean’s Super Predator ABC1 878,000
  9. Elementary Ten 615,000
  10. Bones Seven 599,000
  11. JFK: The Smoking Gun SBS ONE 559,000
  12. ABC News Update ABC1 557,000
  13. Modern Family Ep2 Rpt TEN 556,000
  14. Modern Family Rpt TEN 494,000
  15. David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities TEN 472,000

Sunday’s share:

  • Seven 23.1%
  • Nine 20.4%
  • ABC1 11.5%
  • Ten 11.4%
  • SBS ONE 7.2%
  • GO! 5.1%
  • 7mate 4.6%
  • 7TWO 3.2%
  • ELEVEN 3.1%
  • Gem 2.7%
  • ABC2 2.6%
  • ONE 2.5%
  • ABC News 24 1.0%
  • ABC3 0.6%
  • SBS 2 0.6%
  • NITV 0.2%

Megan Reynolds

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