Glee hits ratings high note for Ten
Network Ten last night saw the strong return of US musical comedy show Glee, beating the competition in its time slot and coming second only to Masterchef in popularity among younger viewers.
Glee returned with its highest audience to date, with 1.181m tuning in. It was the fourth most-watched show overall for Thursday, while Masterchef again led the ratings charge, according to overnight preliminary OzTam data in the main metro markets.
Masterchef was also the leader among 16-39s and 18-49s, followed by Glee.
At Seven, the scheduling of Criminal Minds at 8:30pm to replace the axed Cougar Town saw it attract 761,000 average viewers. This was marginally up from the 626,000 Cougar Town brought in last week.
Still at Seven, The Matty Johns Show remained ahead of Nine’s The Footy Show in Sydney and Brisbane with 443,000 and 295,000 viewers respectively.
Thursday’s most-watched shows:
- Masterchef 1.531m
- Today Tonight 1.31m
- Seven News 1.294m
- Glee 1.181m
- Nine News 1.137m
- Home and Away 1.092m
- Sea Patrol 1.049m
- Two and a Half Men -RPT 1.038m
- A Current Affair 1.028m
- ABC News 952,000
- Getaway 918,000
- The Footy Show 835,000
- Kokoda-EV 791,000
- Ten News At Five 787,000
- Criminal Minds 761,000
Thursday’s channel share:
- Nine: 25.4%
- Seven: 22.5%
- Ten: 21.3%
- ABC1: 14.5%
- GO!: 4.7%
- SBS1: 4.5%
- ABC2: 2.5%
- 7TWO 2.1%
- One: 1.2%
- ABC3: 0.6%
- SBS2: 0.6%
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Easily the best program on TV – Great job!! If only more people watched Glee and less watched Today Tonight, Australia would be a better place.
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Glee. Last year with falling viewer numbers Channel 10 dumped the last 2 epidoses of Glee to a later time slot and seemed to wash their hand of the show. What a change of attitude in 2010 all BS and hype. We watched it last night just to check if it was as bad as before and it was.
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Wow, people watch TV? Surely you web sales folk that frequently predict the end of TV must have something to say?
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Network. I understand you have an axe to grind but just remember that there is a big difference between watching a TV show and watching the ads. I’m just sayin.
You know it makes sense.
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Yep Carob, makes perfect sense & is the same for every medium. For the record I have no vested interests & no axe to grind, I’m a media planner/buyer and I work for myself. (Shit sorry, I’m meant to call myself something else now)I have no vested interests, but what I observe constantly on this site is folk with vested interests making wild uninformed comments, often as not the same comments clients may a/ listen to & b/ (god help us) believe!!!
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