Cougar Town continues to fall, while Thursday sees weak ratings all round

Tim Burrowes

March 12, 2010 4:42

Nine’s The Mentalist was the 8:30pm time slot leader among the free-to-air TV channels, while viewers continued to turn away from Seven’s Cougar Town.

Overall in FTA TV viewing, Nine led the ratings race, with its digital channel Go rating ahead of SBS1, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets.

But only three programs managed to nudge past the one million mark, led by Seven’s evening news, Today Tonight and The Mentalist.

Cougar Town attracted 857,000 viewers, which was down on the 916,000 it recorded last week.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.