Everyone’s a winner in Monday’s TV ratings

Tim Burrowes

May 5, 2009 11:15

All three major networks had something to be cheerful about from last night’s TV ratings – Nine’s final episode of Underbelly took its audience back above 2m; Ten saw a good debut for Recruits plus a stronger MasterChef Australia audience; and Seven scored two of the three biggest shows of the night.

Underbelly rated an average audience of just under 2.1m, according to preliminary OzTam ratings, which took it to a comfortable win for the night.

But Ten will have been encouraged to see the debut of Recruits – a documentary about the NSW Police – rate at just over 1.2m, which won its timeslot.

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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.

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2 COMMENTS

re: turn on 5 May 09

Despite the doomsayers predicting the new media apocalypse, TV continues to have a robust audience. Last night’s top 10 alone represents a third of the Australian population. TV will remain relevant so long as its event programming fuels water-cooler conversations the next day.

Don’t take my word for it, Ben Shepard said it better on his blog
http://talkingdigital.wordpres.....v-is-dead/

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nextbrett 5 May 09

What a disheartning list…
I am also presuming there is some significant cross over in that one-third of Australia?

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