Don Lane tribute wins Thursday night
A Tribute to Don Lane was the most watched TV show last night taking Nine to a clear win.
Following the death of former Nine variety-show presenter Don Lane yesterday, the tribute show hosted by friend and TV personality Bert Newton was the most-watched show for the night pulling in a conservative 1.26 million, according to preliminary OzTam data.
Getaway, which aired before the tribute, at 7:30 came in second with 1.2 million.
The majority of Nine’s audience stayed tuned to watch the Secret Millionaire at 9:30 which received just over 1 million, an increase on last week’s audience of 946,000.
The three programmes, along with Two and a Half Men, took the network to a clear win, despite the continuing low audiences for Thursdays.
Nightly channel Shares:
Nine: 28.4%
Seven: 24.1%
Ten: 21.1%
ABC1: 15.8%
SBS1: 4.6%
GO!: 2.1%
ABC2: 1.8%
ONE: 1.5%
SBS2: 0.5%
But Seven leads into the weekend, just ahead of Nine. The news comes as Seven today announced the launch of its digital offering 7TWO.
Network shares week-to-date:
Seven: 26.8%
Nine: 25.8%
Ten: 21.6%
ABC1: 15.4%
SBS1: 5%
GO!: 2.5%
ABC2: 1.4%
ONE: 1.3%
SBS2: 0.3%
Top 15 most watched shows:
- A Tribute to Don Lane – Nine 1.3m
- Getaway – Nine 1.2m
- Seven News – Seven 1.1m
- Today Tonight – Seven 1.1m
- Two and a Half Men – Nine 1.1m
- Secret Millionaire – Nine 1m
- Home and Away – Seven 1m
- ABC News – ABC 1m
- Rush – Ten 0.973m
- Beauty and the Geek – Seven 0.952m
- Glee – Ten 0.951m
- Nine News – Nine 0.943m
- A Current Affair – Nine 0.929m
- Ghost Whisperer – Seven 0.843m
- Burn Notice – Ten 0.796m
