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Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy most watched show, but Seven wins the week

The premiere of Channel Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy was this week’s most watched show, but it wasn’t enough to give Nine the win over Seven in the overall prime time audience shares.

True Story with Hamish & Andy achieved 1.282m for its premiere episode, while Seven’s House Rules Sunday was the second most watched program of the week, at 1.279m.

Nationally, Seven’s House Rules Sunday was the most watched show with an audience of 2.052m, while Nine’s Hamish and Andy had 1.826m national viewers.

In overall prime time channel share, Seven won the week with a share of 39.2%, ahead of Nine’s 35.8% and Ten’s 25%.

Seven won two of three key advertising demographics (16-39s and 25-54s) with shares of 35.5% and 35.9% respectively.

Nine won the Grocery Buyers with Child category, with a share of 37.2%.

In news programs, Nine News Sunday was the week’s most watched show, pulling 1.269m metro viewers while Seven News Sunday wasn’t far behind at 1.239m metro viewers.

Channel Ten did not have any shows in the top 10 for the week, but Masterchef and Have you Been Paying Attention? both placed in the top 10 programs across the key advertising demographics (16-39s, 25-54s, Grocery Buyer with Child).

Ten’s Masterchef and Have You Been Paying Attention? made the top five shows in the 16-39s.

On Saturday, Seven News won the night with 901,000 viewers ahead of Nine News’ 782,000 metro viewers.

The most watched non-news program was ABC’s Father Brown, which had 688,000 viewers.

Seven’s AFL match between the Hawthorn Hawks and Gold Coast Suns managed 373,000 across Melbourne and Adelaide.

While the ABC had the top non-news shows, Seven won the night with a share of 21.6% ahead of ABC’s 15.6%, Nine’s 12.6%, Ten’s 7.6% and SBS’ 5.5%.

According to OzTAM’s overnight data Channel Seven is winning the average audience shares to date, at 27.4%, ahead of Nine’s 24.8%.

Channel Ten had made a recovery in the shares, with an average of 17.6%.

The below graphic (which only includes the three major commercial networks and excludes ABC and SBS) has been prepared by Nine based on OzTam data:

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