Seven’s Tom & Ben’s Singapore Sling beats Ten’s Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club

Seven’s TV special Tom & Ben’s Singapore Sling which saw Tom Williams and chef Ben O’Donoguhe have a 36 hour pit stop in Singapore as they return from a surfing trip, managed to attract 792,000 viewers but could not top two repeats of Nine’s The Big Bang Theory, preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam show.

However it did beat Ten’s Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club, which also airs from 7.30pm, which managed 531,000 metro viewers up from its debut audience of 293,000 metro viewers, as the networks wind down their schedules during the non-ratings period over Easter.

The Big Bang Theory won the timeslot with 945,000 viewers tuning in for the first episode at 7.30pm with the audience increasing to 959,000 for the second episode at 8pm, while the shows also topped the 25-54 demographic.

Nine News won the night with 1.254 million viewers tuning in for the first half of the hour broadcast at 6pm, with it dropping away slightly to 1.199 million at 6.30pm while Seven News attracted 1.058 million in its first half hour, dropping away to under a million at for the last half hour from 6.30pm.