Dance and Biggest Loser take Ten to a big ratings night

Ten’s final night of So You Think You Can Dance and a strong episode of the Biggest Loser delivered the network a thumping TV ratings win last night.  

Ten pulled in a 30.1% ratings share for Sunday, one of its best results of the year so far. According to the preliminary Oztam TV ratings Seven took 26.6%, Nine took 25.6%, ABC 13.4% and SBS 4.3%.

Last night’s top ten TV shows:

1. Seven News – Seven 1.8m
2. Nine News – Nine 1.5m
3. The Biggest Loser – Ten 1.5m
4. So You Think You Can Dance Winner – Ten 1.4m
5. The Force – Seven 1.4m
6. 60 Minutes – Nine 1.4m
7. So You Think You Can Dance – Ten 1.3m
8. Border Security USA – Seven 1.3m
9. Sunday Night – Seven 1.2m
10. Bones 8:30pm – Seven 1.1m

 Meanwhile, Ten’s digital channel One’s live coverage of the Bahrain Grand Prix delivered an average audience of 127,000 with a perak audience of 220,000.

And last week’s ratings battle ended with another victory for Seven, with a share across the week of 28%, ahead of Nine’s 26.1%. Ten took 22.8% and the ABC 17.4%. SBS scored 5.7%.

So far this ratings year, in the three-way battle between Seven, Nine and Ten, Seven has 36.6%, Nine 34.6% and Ten 28.8%.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the founder of Mumbrella. At various points he's been editor, content director and editor-at-large of Mumbrella. He's written about media and marketing in Australia, the Middle East and the UK.

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