Hamish & Andy win their slot while X Factor wins the night

Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year won its timeslot for Nine and raised its numbers by about 90,000 on last week, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

The show – which aired at 8.30pm – rated 822,000, well up on last week’s 733,000.

However, the continued winner was Seven’s The X Factor which topped the ratings for a sluggish Thursday night with 1.284m.  

However, the audience quickly drifted away for Seven, with Drug Bust at 8.30pm rating only 675,000.

This was just ahead of Rush on Ten which pulled in 660,000. On ABC1, Crownies rated 551,000.

Seven snuck in with the winning share of 21.9% just ahead of Nine by 0.1%.

Thursday’s top 15 shows:

1. The X Factor – Seven – 1.284m
2. Seven News – Seven – 1.160m
3. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.109m
4. Home and Away – Seven – 1.072m
5. Nine News – Nine – 0.941m
6. ABC News – ABC – 0.892m
7. A Current Affair – Nine – 0.861m
8. The Big Bang Theory – 8:00pm – Nine – 0.852m
9. Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year – Nine – 0.822m
10. The Big Bang Theory – 7:30pm – Nine – 0.796m
11. The Footy Show – Nine – 0.790m
12. The 7PM Project – Ten – 0.710m
13. The Renovators – Ten – 0.696m
14. The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm – Nine – 0.678m
15. Drug Bust – Seven – 0.67m

Thursday’s metro channel share:

• Seven: 21.9%
• Nine: 21.8%
• Ten: 15.4%
• ABC1: 11.7%
• 7TWO: 4.6%
• SBS1: 4.2%
• 7mate: 3.9%
• Eleven: 3.9%
• Go!: 3.4%
• Gem: 2.9%
• ABC2: 2.4%
• One: 2.1%
• ABC3: 0.7%
• ABC News 24: 0.6%
• SBS2: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 3

davo 16 Sep 11

Hamish and Andy-of course it won its timeslot . “However, the audience quickly drifted away for Seven, with Drug Bust at 8.30pm rating only 675,000.”
Speaks for itself. Surely Nine is not going to bring back the show next year and will ask for a refund from those two. nothing Nine has done this year has worked. they are limping along with no local shows and no rating hits. viewers have even tired of Underbelly?

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Tom 16 Sep 11

@davo – Uhhmmm So The Block was a dud?

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Nick 17 Sep 11

@davo – I think you’d find that Underbelly Razor had the highest program launch since Oz Tam launched, and is continuing to pull in mass audiences……..

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