The Bachelor wins strongest ratings yet with 870,000 metro viewers for Ten
The Bachelor’s rejection of lovelorn Ali Oetjin won Ten the show’s largest audience yet with with 870,000 metro viewers according to OzTAM.
The penultimate episode of the dating competition starring Bondi chiropractor Tim Robards won its timeslot ahead of Seven’s Slideshow, 7.30 and the Tractor Monkeys final on ABC1, as well as Nine’s new episode of RBT.
The Bachelor was also ahead of Seven’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD as it was sixth in all programs and second in Ten’s target demographic of people 25-54.
Agents of SHIELD was just ahead of Ten’s Sydney beach drama Wonderland which followed The Bachelor and was second in its timeslot with 626,000 metro viewers. Wonderland was 13th for the night and fifth in people 25-54.
Meanwhile ratings slipped for Chris Lilley’s Ja’mie: Private School Girl, which averaged 575,000 for ABC1, although a spokeswoman for the ABC said the show has broken records for the broadcaster’s catchup TV service iview as it has had 810,000 plays of the first three episodes.
Nine’s Hostages was fourth in the timeslot with ratings of 439,000 and 429,000 for two new episodes.
In the morning battle, Seven’s Sunrise took the lead with 349,000 metro viewers, while Today had 337,000 on Channel Nine. Ten’s Wake Up averaged 32,000 viewers, with the early portion averaging 18,000.
The Morning Show on Seven rated 157,000, Nine’s Mornings rated 142,000 and Studio Ten averaged 41,000 metro viewers.
Channel Seven had the largest share of the audience with 18.9 per cent followed by nine with 17.4 per cent and Channel Ten, which secured a 14.9 per cent share of the audience.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- Nine News Nine 1,188,000
- Seven News Seven 1,163,000
- A Current Affair Nine 1,018,000
- Home and Away Seven 1,010,000
- Today Tonight Seven 988,000
- The Bachelor Australia Ten 870,000
- ABC News ABC1 816,000
- Slideshow Seven 717,000
- 7.30 ABC1 673,000
- RBT Nine 670,000
- Ten Eyewitness News Ten 652,000
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Seven 638,000
- Wonderland Ten 626,000
- Hot Seat Nine 593,000
- QI Rpt ABC1 586,000
Wednesday’s share:
- Seven 18.9%
- Nine 17.4%
- Ten 14.9%
- ABC1 12.2%
- 7mate 5.9%
- SBS ONE 5.0%
- ELEVEN 4.4%
- GO! 4.4%
- Gem 3.9%
- 7TWO 3.3%
- ABC2 3.2%
- ONE 2.8%
- ABC3 0.9%
- ABC News 24 1.9%
- SBS 2 0.7%
- Network NITV 0.2%
Data OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
Impressive iview numbers for Ja’mie but compared with what? It seems they only roll out the iview figures when a Chris Lilley show tanks in the ratings. They did the same with Angry boys. It would be interesting to know what other shows get on iview. I would imagine a huge number of those plays were for episode 1 only.
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Watched Wake Up yesterday for the first time.Those 32,000 people have clearly lost the remote. I would advise them to check behind the sofa cushions.
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We are pretty sure it’s because of these recaps; http://www.mamamia.com.au/rogu.....a-week-12/
Because…Bambi.
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I think a percentage of people are ‘over’ Chris Lilley’s Ja’mie.
I tried for the first couple of weeks, but in the end just saw a 30-something bloke trying to talk like a (not very likeable) 16 year old girl.
He’s very clever and everything, but…
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