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Guy Pearce tele-movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts rates well for ABC

Jack Irish: Bad Debts, an Australian TV movie starring Guy Pearce has delivered the ABC its highest rating for Sunday night.

Produced by Essential Media and Entertainment for ABC1, the film rated 950,000 across the five city metro markets, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.

In its 8.30pm time slot, the movie beat Ten’s series return of Homeland which rated 633,000 and 14th for the night, but couldn’t top Nine’s House Husbands, which rated 1.04m and fifth for the night.

The first of two Jack Irish tele movies adapted from the Peter Temple book series, rated sixth across all viewers. Directed by Jeffrey Walker, the film also starred Aaron Pederson, Roy Billing, Marta Dusseldorp and Anthony Hayes. The second in the films, Jack Irish: Black Tide will screen next Sunday at 8.30pm on ABC1.

The show did worse, however, in the key advertising demographics. In 16-39 age demo the show was 18th, in 18-49 it placed 13th and in 25-54 it was 12th.

Homeland on the otherhand improved in the demos placing 10th across all three key demos.

House Husbands was second in 16-39 and 18-49 and third in 25-54.

Winning the night in total people was Seven’s Sunday Night with 1.354m ahead of Nine’s 60 Minutes on 1.341m in second place and Seven’s Anh Does Vietnam in third place.

In channel share, Seven just won the night with 22.8% with Nine taking 21.6%. ABC1 was third with 14.9% followed by Ten on 11.8%. SBS was fifth on 4.2%.

Sunday’s top 15 shows:
1. Sunday Night Seven 1.354m
2. 60 Minutes Nine 1.341m
3. Anh Does Vietnam Seven 1.317m
4. Seven News Seven 1.206m
5. House Husbands Nine 1.040m
6. Jack Irish ABC 0.950m
7. Nine News Nine 0.942m
8. Big Brother Nine 0.863m
9. Bones Seven 0.853m
10. Modern Family Ten 0.850m
11. ABC News ABC 0.811m
12. Great Southern Land ABC 0.784m
13. The Mentalist Nine 0.659m
14. Homeland Ten 0.633m
15. Merlin Ten 0.558m

Sunday’s channel share:
Seven: 22.8%
Nine: 21.6%
ABC1: 14.9%
Ten: 11.8%
SBS1: 4.2%
7TWO 4.0%
One: 3.7%
GO!: 3.6%
7mate: 3.5%
Gem: 3.2%
Eleven: 2.6%
ABC2: 2.1%
ABC3: 0.7%
ABC News 24: 0.7%
SBS2: 0.5%

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