The Blacklist wins again for Seven as final of Keating holds audience

The BlacklistJames Spader’s The Blacklist final was the most watched non-news program for the second night in a row last night as it brought 1.085m metro viewers to Channel Seven.

Meanwhile the fourth and final episode of Keating, a series of interviews with the former PM by Kerry O’Brien, held its audience with an average 759,000 metro viewers ranking the show second in the 8.30pm timeslot. Keating launched to 886,000 viewers on November 13 and has held around 770,000 viewers for each episode since.

Nine’s film Miss Congeniality, a comedy with Sandra Bullock, was third in the timeslot and 18th for the night with a total metro audience of 527,000 as Ten’s repeat of NCIS averaged 487,000, according to the OzTam overnight ratings.

The final episode of The Blacklist was also the top program in people 25-54. It is the highest-rated new series in the US this season and American network NBC has ordered a second 22-episode season.

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