The Blacklist returns with 909,000 as The Biggest Loser falls to 339,000
The return of James Spader’s The Blacklist brought 909,000 metro viewers to Channel Seven last night but Ten’s The Biggest Loser Australia got just 339,000 against The Block and My Kitchen Rules.
MKR won the night with 1.911m while Nine’s The Block had 964,000 viewers at 7.30pm, but The Biggest Loser Australia had it’s lowest outing yet this season, according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight ratings.
Meanwhile Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell on ABC1 was third in the 8pm timeslot with 543,000, as was comedy quiz show Spicks and Specks, with 442,000, despite dropping of its debut to 598,000 when it launched with a new panel last week.
The Moodys, on ABC1 at 8.30pm, averaged 379,000 for the second episode of the series in competition with The Blacklist.
Although ratings for The Blacklist dropped from its launch to 1.59m in October, episode 11 of series one had a clear win over David Blaine: Real or Magic’s 674,000 on Nine and the Sochi Winter Olympics which had 411,000 on Ten.
However when the illusionist’s stunt suspended in a globe of water, David Blaine: Drowned Alive, was up against Marvel’s Agents of Shield on Seven, viewers turned to Nine. Marvel’s Agents of Shield held 379,000 from 9.45pm as David Blaine: Drowned Alive had 414,000 from 10pm on Nine.
The evening news battle was close with Seven just edging above Nine in the ratings as it had 1.047m for the first half hour as Nine had 1.036m, and in the second half hour where Today Tonight is on in Adelaide and Perth Seven averaged 995,000 as Nine News 6:30 had 988,000.
And in the morning shows arena Seven’s Sunrise won with 354,000 total viewers as Nine’s Today averaged 279,000 across the five cities. Wake Up averaged 41,000 on Ten, and Studio Ten had 45,000 viewers as Seven had 152,000 for The Morning Show and Nine had 94,000 for Mornings.
Seven won the night with a 26.6 per cent audience share as Nine had 19.6 per cent. Ten was third for the night with 12.7 per cent of the audience and One was fifth behind ABC1 with a 6.4 per cent share for its Olympics coverage on the digital channel.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.911m
- Seven News Seven 1.047m
- Nine News Nine 1.036m
- Seven News / Today Tonight Seven 995,000
- Home and Away Seven 991,000 2
- Nine News Nine 988,000
- The Block: Fans v Faves Nine 964,000
- The Blacklist Seven 909,000
- A Current Affair Nine 829,000
- ABC News ABC1 794,000
- David Blaine: Real or Magic Nine 674,000
- Ten Eyewitness News Ten 639,000
- 7.30 ABC1 622,000
- Sochi Live D5 Evening Ten 589,000
- Hot Seat Nine 562,000
Wednesday’s share:
- Seven 26.6%
- Nine 19.6%
- Ten 12.7%
- ABC1 10.0%
- ONE 6.4%
- 7mate 3.9%
- GO! 3.1%
- ELEVEN 3.1%
- SBS ONE 3.0%
- Gem 3.0%
- ABC2 2.9%
- 7TWO 2.6%
- ABC News 24 1.1%
- ABC3 0.9%
- SBS 2 0.9%
- NITV 0.1%
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Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs.
Ten continues to be a basket case. The Sochi Olympic coverage is a disgrace with hosts with no insights and events which are cut, spliced and diced. And dare I say there are so many ads that you don’t have a coherent viewing experience. If I was an advertiser I would be deeply pissed off. If you balance the viewer experience with judicious commercial breaks then everybody wins. If you gouge the viewer with ads they go away. And Roy & HG have long past their use by date. What were Ten thinking?
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When are Roy and HG on? I would watch just to see them!!
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Wake Up should be Put Down. Quick Smart.
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Wake Up continues to be a disaster and the Today show is getting thrashed, now by 75,000 a day. Where have the stories about that ongoing saga gone? What a catastrophe morning TV is for both for 9 and 10.
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Studio 10 is fantastic, and is just the type of smart talk show morning tv needs. I really want it to work but the ratings of any show at that time are quite low and there isn’t much room for loyal viewers to migrate to Ten at 8.30am. Hope it makes headway soon!
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