Big finish for Glee on Ten as Fox8 gets ready for its turn
Thursday night belonged to Ten, with massive audiences for Masterchef and the Glee finale, while David Leckie’s “shit show” Cougar Town lived down to expectations delivering an audience of just 519,000.
The strong night for Ten sees the network heading into the weekend neck-and-neck with Nine, which was lifted by Wednesday’s State Of Origin.
According to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam, Ten won Thursday night with a massive 27.8% share, well ahead of Nine’s 22.1% and Seven’s 19.1%.
With five nights of the ratings week gone, Nine has a share of 24.5%, Ten has 24.1% and Seven is on 22.4%.
Meanwhile, Fox 8 announced today that Glee will be the cornerstone of musical Monday nights from next month. From August 2, the pay TV channel will air Glee from its first episode, followed by UK reality series Pineapple Dance Studios.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
- Masterchef Ten 2.143m
- Glee Ten 1.620m
- Seven News Seven 1.437m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.321m
- Nine News Nine 1.240m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.116m
- Sea Patrol Nine 1.044m
- Home and Away Seven 1.009m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.008m
- ABC News ABC 1.001m
- Law and Order: SVU Ten 0.973m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.936m
- Ten News Ten 0.896m
- Miracles ABC 0.836m
- The Footy Show Nine 0.818m
Thursday’s station share:
- Ten: 27.8%
- Nine: 22.1%
- Seven: 19.9%
- ABC1: 13.3%
- SBS1: 5.1%
- GO!: 4.4%
- 7TWO 3.0%
- ABC2: 2.5%
- ABC3: 0.8%
- One: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.5%
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19 emmy noms as well – Haters say what?!
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I love Glee. I’m so glad people have realised the value of the show. I hope Cougar Town doesn’t get renewed for another season. What has Courtney Cox thinking?
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