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Undercover Boss Australia flies under the radar in the ratings

Undercover Boss Australia’s second episode of the season, focusing on Hog’s Breath Cafes, fell back from its premiere audience of 764,000 last week to 669,000.   

The Ten show, which ran from 8:37 to 9:42, was up against the second half of The X Factor which won the night with 1.452 million, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam. It was up on the same time last week by 54,000.

The repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory at 7pm received 793,000, down on last Monday’s episode of 828,000. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper, won an Emmy award yesterday for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series.

Matchmaking reality series The Farmer Wants A Wife followed Big Bang at 7:30 and received 792,000. It too was down on last week’s 969,000.

Monday’s top 15 shows:

  1. The X Factor – Seven – 1.452m
  2. Seven News – Seven – 1.343m
  3. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.309m
  4. Home and Away – Seven – 1.130m
  5. Nine News – Nine – 1.086m
  6. ABC News – ABC – 0.984m
  7. A Current Affair – Nine – 0.929m
  8. The Big Bang Theory – Nine – 0.793m
  9. The Farmer Wants A Wife – Nine – 0.792m
  10. Australian Story – ABC – 0.789m
  11. Castle – Seven – 0.774m
  12. The 7PM Project – Ten – 0.738m
  13. The Renovators – Ten – 0.703m
  14. Undercover Boss – Ten – 0.669m
  15. 7:30 – ABC – 0.66m
Monday’s metro channel share:
Seven: 27.1%
Nine: 17.4%
ABC1: 13.3%
Ten: 12.4%
7TWO: 4.7%
Go!: 4.7%
SBS1: 4.2%
Eleven: 3.9%
7mate: 3.6%
Gem: 2.6%
ABC2: 2.2%
One: 2.2%
ABC News 24: 0.7%
ABC3: 0.5%
SBS2: 0.5%
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