Mrs Brown’s Boys and Top Gear dominate Thursday’s TV ratings
A uncompetitive night’s TV schedule saw Seven’s triple bill of British comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys perform reasonably well, as did an episode of Top Gear for Nine.
Seven showed the Mrs Brown’s Boys episodes Mammy Christmas, The Virgin Mammy and Mammy’s Ass. The first episode rated 1.038m, third for the night after Nine News and Seven News, the next two rated 920,000 and 594,000. Mrs Brown’s Boys is a broad sitcom set in Ireland.
Meanwhile, Nine’s Top Gear journey to the source of The Nile averaged 927,000, eighth for the night, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM. Top Gear was also number one show in the key advertising demographics of 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
The Footy Show averaged 796,000 for Nine.
Consumer issues entertainment show The Checkout rated 796,000 for ABC1.
Ten’s best performers were Ten News At Five (641,000) and Law & Order; SVU (621,000).
Seven won the night with a 22.7 per cent share, followed by Nine with a 21.9 per cent share. Next came ABC1 with 13.6 per cent, Ten with 12.9 per cent and SBS1 with 4.9 per cent.
Earlier in the day Nine’s Today beat Seven’s Sunrise by 378,000 to 352,000. However Seven’s The Morning Show comfortably beat Nine’s Mornings 171,000 to 128,000.
Thursday’s top shows:
- Nine News Nine 1.225
- Seven News Seven 1.181
- Mrs Brown’s Boys – Episode 1 Seven 1.038
- A Current Affair Nine 1.033
- Today Tonight Seven 0.981
- Home and Away Seven 0.943
- ABC News ABC 0.931
- Border Security: International Seven 0.927
- Top Gear Nine 0.927
- Mrs Brown’s Boys – Episode 2 Seven 0.920
- 7:30 ABC 0.834
- The Footy Show – AFL and NRL Nine 0.796
- The Checkout ABC 0.752
- Hot Seat Nine 0.655
- Ten News Ten 0.641
Network share:
- Seven: 22.7%
- Nine: 21.9%
- ABC1: 13.6%
- Ten: 12.9%
- SBS1: 4.9%
- 7TWO: 4.6%
- GO!: 3.7%
- Eleven: 2.9%
- ABC2: 2.9%
- 7mate: 2.5%
- Gem: 2.5%
- One: 2.4%
- ABC News 24: 1.0%
- ABC3: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.7%
- NITV: 0.1%
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Can we have some figures for top-performing shows on the other free-to-air channels, eg. Go!, Eleven, 7Mate? How is Survivor rating with this season being streamed just 6 hours after airing in the US?
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Hi Mike,
Survivor Caramoan did 219,000 for Go last night – fourth biggest digital show of the night.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
That Top Gear episode has already been shown at least three times on pay TV. How much is too much? (and not butchered by Nine’s ad placement either).
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Mrs Browns Boys?… really?
What did i miss… did “Iddiocracy” become true while i was sleeping?
Cant wait for “ow my balls” – celebrity edition, sure to be on screen this year?
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It’s Irish. As much as I hate the show, I absolutely hate the fact that many Australian’s don’t realise that Ireland is NOT part of Britian.
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Nth Ireland is part of Britain
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I don’t think many people confuse Ireland with Britain. The show is set in Ireland, but recorded in the UK. Certainly Brendan O’Carroll, the award winning artist behind the scripting and the leading character, was born in Dublin and has long been a performer in Ireland.
I am not a fan of Mrs Brown’s Boys in any way, and find it rather banal and even sometimes degrading. Looking at the show’s pure theatrical construction and execution however, I find the work funny and very well written, The characterization is shallow most of the time, but excellent nevertheless.
Many times our own comedies (so called) miss the mark for the want of theatrical construction of this type and discipline.
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