Nine beats Seven in Monday ratings

Tim Burrowes

February 23, 2010 12:40

Nine returned to the top spot in Monday ratings led by Two and a Half Men, with Seven’s cooking show My Kitchen failing to continue its ratings lead from a week ago.

Two and a Half Men was the most-watched show with almost 1.4 million viewers, compared to My Kitchen Rules (MKR) with 1.2 million, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data for the metropolitan markets.

This was compared to the previous Monday when MKR was the most-watched show with 1.5 million.

Nine also had a win in the 8:30pm timeslot, with The Mentalist coming in as the third most watched program with 1.3 million, ahead of Seven’s Desperate Housewives which failed to reach the one million mark. This was below the 1.1 million the US show managed last Monday.

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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.