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Geeks and Hawkie dominate TV audiences on Monday night

A new episode of The Big Bang Theory and an Australian Story on the life of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke were the highest ratings programs, outside news, on an evening where few shows again hit over one million in audience.

The Big Bang Theory was the highest rating program of the evening with an audience of 1.274m tuning in at 7.30pm, while 1.195m tuned in for a repeat at 8pm.

Over on the ABC 965,000 viewers tuned in to watch part one of a two part Australian Story episode of the life of Bob Hawke.

Seven saw its audiences numbers lift, after poor numbers from My Big Adventure last week, with Highway Patrol and Nabbed pulling 771,000 and 762,000 respectively, while the finale of Ten’s much hyped political drama Party Tricks drew 530,000.

The Blacklist also saw its audience improve with the show last night in the 8.30m timeslot posting 737,000 viewers up from 626,000 last week. Marvel Agents of SHIELD was up marginally as well to 317,000 in the 9.30 timeslot.

Seven beat Nine in the 8.30pm timeslot with Big Brother down on last week with an audience of 636,000 viewers compared with 671,000 last week.

Ten’s highest rating program of the night was the simulcast of Family Feud which drew 628,000 viewers while Gold Coast Cops and Territory Cops drew 517,000 and 546,000 viewers.

In the news stakes Nine News won the night with 986,000 viewers in the 6.30pm slot and 965,000 in the 6pm slot. Seven News drew 959,000 viewers at 6pm and 934,000 at 6.30pm.

Nine won the night with an audience share of 20.5 per cent on its main channel, Seven had 17.5 per cent, the ABC 16.6 per cent and 12.4 for Ten.

Nic Christensen

Top 15 Shows
1 THE BIG BANG THEORY Network 9 1,274,000
2 THE BIG BANG THEORY – RPT Network 9 1,195,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 986,000
4 NINE NEWS Network 9 965,000
5 AUSTRALIAN STORY Network ABC 965,000
6 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 959,000
7 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 934,000
8 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 880,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 845,000
10 ABC NEWS Network ABC 843,000
11 FOUR CORNERS Network ABC 814,000
12 HIGHWAY PATROL Network 7 771,000
13 NABBED Network 7 762,000
14 7.30 Network ABC 752,000
15 THE BLACKLIST Network 7 737,000

Audience Share
Network 9 20.5%
Network 7 17.5%
Network ABC 16.6%
Network TEN 12.4%
Network 7TWO 6.0%
Network GO! 4.7%
Network 7mate 4.0%
Network ABC2 3.4%
Network SBS ONE 3.3%
Network ONE 3.0%
Network ELEVEN 3.0%
Network Gem 2.6%
Network ABC News 24 1.2%
Network SBS 2 0.8%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network NITV 0.1%

Total Audience Share
Network 9 TTL 27.9%
Network 7 TTL 27.5%
Network TEN TTL 18.5%
Network ABC TTL 22.0%
Network SBS TTL 4.2%

Ratings data is copyright OzTAM and may not be reproduced, published or communicated without the prior written consent of OzTAM.

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