Return of the Bachelor rejects wins time slot for Ten
Channel Ten’s two hour show featuring interviews with the women rejected by The Bachelor saw off competition from Seven and Nine with 768,000 metro viewers viewers according to OzTam.
The show was first in its timeslot ahead of Beauty and the Geek Australia and How I Met Your Mother on Channel Seven, and stronger than a new episode of Top Gear on Channel Nine.
The Bachelor: After the Final Rose, which also featured an interview with bachelor Tim Robards and his final choice Anna Heinrich, was also the most popular show in Ten’s target ad demographic of people 25-54.
Meanwhile the ABC1’s Aboriginal drama Redfern Now was fourth in its time slot with an average 478,000 metro viewers according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.
Nine followed Top Gear with a special Top Gear Festival in Sydney, which was 15th for the night. And the first test of the The Ashes session two averaged 584,000 throughout the afternoon.
Morning television was led by Channel Seven’s Sunrise which averaged 357,000 metro viewers, and Today was close behind with 329,000.
Ratings lifted for the first episode of Wake Up without Natasha Exelby who was cut from the show on Wednesday. Wake Up averaged 49,000 metro viewers compared with 39,000 the previous Day. The show had 34,000 viewers for the early portion yesterday.
The Morning Show rated 174,000, while Nine’s Mornings had 117,000 and Studio 10 had 46,000, according to OzTam.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.195m
- Nine News Nine 1.101,m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.023m
- Home and Away 976,000
- A Current Affair Nine 959,000
- The Bachelor Australia – After the Final Rose Ten 768,000
- ABC News ABC1 767,000
- The Big Bang Theory -Rpt Nine 682,000
- 7.30 ABC1 626,000
- Beauty and the Geek Australia Seven 624,000
- How I Met Your Mother Seven 610,000
- Law & Order: SVU Ten 595,000
- The Ashes: First Test – Australia v England Session 2 Nine 584,000
- Ten Eyewitness News Ten 481,000
- Top Gear Festival Sydney Nine 480,000
Thursday’s share:
- Seven 20.3%
- Nine 18.9%
- Ten 14.4%
- ABC1 10.2%
- SBS ONE 5.6%
- GO! 5.3%
- 7TWO 4.8%
- Gem 4.0%
- ABC2 3.9%
- ELEVEN 3.6%
- 7mate 3.4%
- ONE 2.0%
- ABC News 24 1.5%
- ABC3 1.0%
- SBS 2 1.0%
- NITV 0.1%
Data OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
