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The Project’s Trump interview dominates as X Factor falls on semi-final night

Ten’s The Project, which ran a special episode to show the first exclusive interview of Donald Trump since his electoral win, dominated the 7:30pm slot achieving 779,000 viewers.

Trump’s exclusive interview originally ran on CBS and went to air on November 13 in the US.

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The special episode was the second most watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39s, 18-49s, 25-54s).

Seven’s The X Factor aired in the same time slot with 697,000 viewers, down from last week’s audience of 732,000.

The X Factor is down 23% from its 2016 launch, which had an audience of 904,000.

Also in the 7:30pm slot, Nine’s RBT captured 744,000 viewers.

In news, Seven won the evening with 1.124m tuning in at 6pm and 1.049m and 6:30pm.

Nine was close behind with 1.028m viewers at 6pm and 998,000 at 6:30pm.

Ten’s Having You Been Paying Attention was the most watched non-news program of the night pulling in 849,000 viewers at 8:30pm, a big increase from last week’s 687,000 viewers.

The program was the most watched program across the major ad demographics.

Nine’s Hyde & Seek slipped this week, managing an audience of 595,000 viewers, down from last week’s 741,000.

ABC’s Four Corners was ahead of Hyde & Seek, capturing 637,000 viewers in the same time slot.

In audience share, Nine won the evening with 18.5% ahead of Channel Seven who had a share of 17.7%. Ten had an audience share of 15.6% and the ABC was close behind at 15.2% while SBS had a share of 3.7%.

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