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Dancing With The Stars hits 1.6m

Seven’s Dancing With The Stars had a strong second outing, stretching last week’s lead over Ten’s Masterchef and moving above 1.6m viewers on Sunday night.

The show – fueled by controversy over rude judges – averaged 1.606m viewers, ahead of 1.409m for Masterchef, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Meanwhile, SBS1 had one of its best nights of the year with 503,000 tuning in for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sunday’s top 15:

  1. Seven News Seven 1.745m
  2. Dancing with the Stars Seven 1.613m
  3. Nine News Nine 1.441m
  4. Masterchef Ten 1.409m
  5. 60 Minutes Nine 1.083m
  6. In Their Footsteps Nine 1.056m
  7. Castle – Episode 1 Seven 0.927m
  8. Merlin Ten 0.887m
  9. The Mentalist – Episode 1 Nine 0.813m
  10. The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart ABC 0.774m
  11. ABC News ABC 0.758m
  12. Hawaii Five-O Ten 0.712m
  13. Castle – Episode 2 Seven 0.706m
  14. The Great Rift: Inside The Great Rift ABC 0.645m
  15. The Mentalist – Episode 2 Nine 0.550m

Sunday’s share:

  • Seven: 28.0%
  • Nine: 18.1%
  • Ten: 15.2%
  • SBS1: 8.9%
  • ABC1: 8.8%
  • GO!: 3.9%
  • Gem: 3.4%
  • 7TWO 3.2%
  • Eleven: 2.9%
  • 7mate: 2.6%
  • One: 2.3%
  • ABC2: 1.0%
  • SBS2: 0.8%
  • ABC News 24: 0.6%
  • ABC3: 0.5%
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