Despite Undercover Boss debut and live X Factor, Two And A Half Men triumphs
Nine’s Two And A Half Men saw off all comers on Monday night – topping the TV ratings ahead of Ten’s Junior Masterchef and debut of Undercover Boss Australia, Seven’s the X Factor Live elimination and sci-fi drama The Event and Nine’s modern BBC version of Sherlock.
Despite the competitive schedule, the 7pm episode of the US sitcom won the night for Nine, with an average audience of 1.459m, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam. The 7.30pm episode rated 1.316m, third for the night, behind Seven News (1.37m).
Undercover Boss Australia, which featured Domino’s Pizza boss Don Meij, was fourth for the night, rating 1.314m.
The movie length episode of Sherlock rated 1.245m, sixth for the night.
Junior Masterchef was ninth for the night with 1.125m.
The X Factor was 11th with 1.056m.
Meanwhile, The Event faded badly for Seven to 642,000, 21st for Monday.
Top 15 shows:
- Two and a Half Men – Episode 1 Nine 1.459m
- Seven News Seven 1.370m
- Two and a Half Men – Episode 2 Nine 1.316m
- Undercover Boss Ten 1.314m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.264m
- Sherlock Nine 1.245m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.216m
- Nine News Nine 1.186m
- Junior Masterchef Ten 1.125m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:00pm Nine 1.079m
- The X Factor Seven 1.056m
- ABC News ABC 1.033m
- Home and Away Seven 1.007m
- Australian Story ABC 0.867m
- The 7:30 Report ABC 0.807m
Monday’s share:
- Nine: 26.6%
- Ten: 20.6%
- Seven: 20.0%
- ABC1: 14.3%
- SBS1: 5.0%
- GO!: 4.0%
- 7mate: 2.1%
- 7TWO: 1.9%
- Gem: 1.8%
- ABC2: 1.5%
- SBS2: 0.8%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
- ABC News 24: 0.4%
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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I find it intensely depressing what this says about the tastes of audiences.
However much we moan about them not showing The Wire in primetime, the truth is that viewers are idiots.
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Due to dwindling viewer numbers TEN is shedding Junior Masterchef, Seven is about to dump The Event because you can’t tell a sensible story with continual flashbacks, Sherlock on Nine will cause several deaths from boredom and the X factor is so horrible it defies comment.
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I am still to meet a person who watches Two and a Half Men … and until then I just cannot bring myself to believe that nearly 1.5 million Australians continue to think this is quality prime time viewing.
My hope is that no REAL person could stand to watch repeated episodes of the same inane script being vocalised (I cannot put in same category as acting) by boring and 2 dimensional characters with an insufferable laugh track in the background.
Could Mumbrella please investigate – maybe the television rating system is suffering the same fate as newspaper circulation figures? PLEASE tell me this is true!
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I often wonder if they could tell a joke on Two & A Half Men that isnt about getting laid!!!
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Although ch 9 did show 2 & half men out of order and played episode 1&2 the wrong way around!!
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Good to see the free to air digital TV channels pulling in some good numbers.
However, I’m still trying to figure out why I own a HD TV now that only one channel ‘One’ is available in HD.
Tim – do you think you can ask Seven/Nine to explain why I’m now only receiving multiple versions of their SD channels?
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Shows the intelligence of the Aussie viewer,not much there i`m afraid
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Sherlock- the sunday episode was great. The monday episode was a completely different director, and was totally shithouse.
apparantly the next one is the original director again, so hopefull it will be good again…
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I would honestly rather watch Two and a Half Men than Home and Away. Don’t worry, I’m not some mindless ‘Aussie viewer’, I’m actually a university graduate.
Is there a problem with watching a sitcom, that will make me at least chuckle here and there, as aposed to watching a bunch of aussie teens who can’t act on channel 7?
I know what I’d rather watch. You can watch what you like, just don’t judge all views as unintelligent.
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What did you graduate in, Janet?
I hope it wasn’t English.
The word you want is ‘opposed’, not ‘a posed’.
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