Downton and Newton lead the charge in Sunday’s ratings

Tim Burrowes

February 18, 2013 9:57

Seven narrowly beat Nine to top show of the evening on Sunday night with three programs pulling in audiences of 1.2m.

Seven News (1.231m) and Downton Abbey (1.216m) came in narrowly ahead of Nine’s 60 Minutes (1.214m), which included an interview with the troubled star Matthew Newton.

Meanwhile, Nine’s The Block: All Stars was seventh for the night with average audience of 1.119m, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Ten saw a slightly more competitive start to the week with Elementary making it into in the top ten for all people, tenth for the night with an audience of 899,000. Masterchef: The Professionals rated 859,000. The two shows were third and fourth in Ten’s key demographics of 16-39 and 18-49.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.