Bad Monday for Seven as Masterchef breaks The Magician’s Code

Tim Burrowes

June 22, 2010 10:44

Seven had a poor night on Monday with none its evening entertainment shows in the top 15 rating programmes.

Accoring to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam, the only Seven shows that made the top 15 were Seven News, Today Tonight and Home & Away.

Breaking the Magician’s Code bombed at 7.30pm with 881,000 while Desperate Housewives at 8.30pm delivered 870,000. Hung, at 9.30pm delivered 750,000.

Meanwhile, Ten’s Masterchef dominated the night with an average audience of more than 1.8m. For Nine, The Mentalist delivered just over 1.3m.

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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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3 COMMENTS

macsmutterings 22 Jun 10

Hung was not bad, it had a lot more depth to it than I thought it would, will be interesting to see how it pans out

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R 22 Jun 10

Hung was released on iTunes months ago, anyone who was interested in watching it, as I was, has already seen the entire first season.
And I don’t think anyone is surprised to see ‘MasterChef ‘beating ‘The Magicians Code’.

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Graham 23 Jun 10

Wasn’t Breaking the magicians code on in north America like 10 years ago? I remember seeing this as a kid, but couldn’t be bothered to check if this was the same thing or a new version. Pretty weak, either way.

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