House of Hancock stays flat despite publicity caused by Gina Rinehart court action
The second episode of biopic miniseries House of Hancock last night dipped slightly on the previous week despite receiving publicity over the weekend after Gina Rinehart won the right to ask Channel Nine to edit some of the episode prior to broadcast.
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On Friday afternoon Rinehart took Nine to court to gain access to the episode, reaching a confidential agreement with the Nine Network on Saturday which saw edits made to the second episode before it aired last night. The court heard that as part of the deal Nine agreed to broadcast a line at the start of the show about it being a “fictionalised” drama.
Last night the final episode grabbed a metro audience of 1.380m viewers in the 8.45pm timeslot, after last week’s epsiode, which stars Mandy McElhinney as Gina Rinehart, pulled a slightly bigger audience of 1.383m. Last night’s episode was the second-most watched show across all the demographics.
