Hamish & Andy pull in nearly 1.6m for Gap Year Asia

Tim Burrowes

July 9, 2013 9:08

Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year Asia had a storming debut for Nine on Monday night, with an average metro audience of 1.566m.

The show – featuring Hamish Blake and Andy Lee – helped Nine to a dominant night in the ratings, with The Block second for the night with an audience of 1.485m, according to OzTAM.

Meanwhile, the debut of Ten’s real life crime show Wanted attracted 632,000 capital city viewers. Ten said this was up by 57% for the network’s average for the timeslot and claimed it was “above internal forecasts”. It was 15th most popular for the night among Ten’s target demographic of 25-54s.

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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.