Catalyst returns with 0.57m for ABC, Loser goes well for Ten
The thirteenth season of Catalyst kicked off last night on ABC, but the science show that informed us that one in a 100 people are psychopaths drew a disappointing 569,000 and failed to make the top 15.
The Straits has stabilised around the 400,000 mark for ABC1, up slightly from last week. But the public broadcaster took less than 10% share in the Thursday ratings, according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight metro figures.
Seven won the night comfortably, with a quarter of Australia’s TV viewers tuning in last night.
Seven’s My Kitchen Rules surprised no one by winning the night, pulling in 1.646m viewers in the 7.30pm time slot. It was the only non-news show to eclipse the million mark.
The challenge episode of The Big Loser was next most watched non-news show on a rival channel, rating well with 861,000 for Ten.
The first day of the 2012 Energy Australia Swimming Championships, which saw an ad break for Energy Australia earlier this week, pulled in 507,000 for Ten.
At breakfast time, 382,000 woke up to watch Sunrise on Seven, again beating Today on Nine. Ten’s Breakfast pulled in just 40,000 viewers.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
1. My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.646m
2. Seven News Seven 1.150m
3. Nine News Nine 1.057m
4. Today Tonight Seven 1.029m
5. ABC News ABC 1.004m
6. Home and Away Seven 0.940m
7. A Current Affair Nine 0.871m
8. The Biggest Loser Ten 0.861m
9. Grey’s Anatomy Seven 0.797m
10. The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.777m
11. 7:30 ABC 0.683m
12. The Footy Show – AFL and NRL Nine 0.643m
13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nine 0.598m
14. Earth Flight Nine 0.598m
15. Hot Seat Nine 0.589m
Thursday’s channel share:
Seven: 24.9%
Nine: 18.6%
Ten: 14.0%
ABC1: 9.9%
SBS1: 5.2%
7TWO 4.8%
GO!: 4.2%
7mate: 3.9%
One: 3.6%
Eleven: 3.6%
ABC2: 2.8%
Gem: 2.2%
ABC News 24: 0.9%
ABC3: 0.8%
SBS2: 0.5%
Earthflight was on Nine NOT ABC
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Go Sunrise!!! Seems all Channel Nines efforts to spruik Today has failed. Both the programs are so similar in format now , they seem to be the same. So the question is’why do viewers prefer Sunrise over Today”. On a rare day off last week, I watched both shows. Channel 9 persists in having Richard Wilkins interview Richard Reed rather than have either Karl of Lisa do it.Is Richard W the only one who understands Richard R?Sunrise is the more “hip” show by far.
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