Despite Undercover Boss debut and live X Factor, Two And A Half Men triumphs

October 19, 2010 10:58

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

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. 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. In 2021 he published the definitive guide to the recent history of the Australian media industry, Media Unmade

topics Don Meij Junior masterchef Nine OzTam ratings Seven Sherlock television Ten TV Two and a Half Men Undercover Boss X Factor

Comments: 10

telly snob 19 Oct 10

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.

act551 19 Oct 10

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.

feeonar 19 Oct 10

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!

Marcus Hudswell 19 Oct 10

I often wonder if they could tell a joke on Two & A Half Men that isnt about getting laid!!!

Zopo 19 Oct 10

Although ch 9 did show 2 & half men out of order and played episode 1&2 the wrong way around!!

JDB 19 Oct 10

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?

sean 19 Oct 10

Shows the intelligence of the Aussie viewer,not much there i`m afraid

Thomas Dodson 20 Oct 10

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…

Janet 20 Oct 10

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.

Spelling cop 21 Oct 10

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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