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Downton Abbey continues ratings run

Seven’s Downton Abbey continued its Sunday success last night pulling in 1.7 million viewers, the top show for the night.  

The period drama was up on last week by 200,000 while Sunday’s episode of Masterchef also jumped 300,000 to 1.6 million, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.

Dancing With The Stars on Seven also improved by 200,000 to 1.5 million.

Seven won the night with 27.4 per cent share despite Nine having the most shows in the top 15.

Sunday”s top 15 shows:

1. Downton Abbey – Seven – 1.717m
2. Seven News – Seven – 1.679m
3. Masterchef – Ten – 1.615m
4. Dancing with the Stars – Seven – 1.551m
5. Nine News – Nine – 1.526m
6. 60 Minutes – Nine – 1.054m
7. Merlin – Ten – 0.978m
8. In Their Footsteps – Nine – 0.892m
9. The Mentalist – Episode 1 – Nine – 0.821m
10. Hawaii Five-O – Ten – 0.717m
11. Inspector George Gently – ABC – 0.677m
12. ABC News – ABC – 0.625m
13. Castle – Seven – 0.613m
14. Nine’s Sunday Football – Nine – 0.558m
15. Mountain Gorilla – ABC – 0.543m

Sunday”s channel share:

Seven: 27.4%
Nine: 18.8 %
Ten: 17.1%
ABC1: 9.5%
7mate: 5.7%
GO!:4.1%
SBS1: 3.9%
7TWO: 3.0%
Eleven: 2.6%
Gem: 2.5%
One: 2.5%
ABC2: 1.1%
SBS2: 0.6%
ABC News 24: 0.5%
ABC3: 0.3%

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