SBS beats Ten on Saturday night as networks do battle with chocolate programming

The Saturday night television battle has seen SBS come out with a larger audience share than Ten’s primary channel. SBS finished the night with an 7.3% share, while Ten had just 6.3%.

The other commercial networks, meanwhile, both screened different film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Seven’s choice of the original 1971 flick, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, was victorious, with a metro audience of 244,000, and a national total of 365,000. Nine’s screening of the 2005 adaptation with Johnny Depp, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, had 191,000 metro viewers and 270,000 in total.

Viewers preferred the original film last night over its 2005 remake