Ten’s 7PM Project clocks over one million, while The Circle stabilises
Ten’s The 7PM Project saw over one million tune in last night, giving the show its highest ratings result in the year to date; while The Circle settled with 80,000 viewers, a marked increase from the 50,000 low it has previously recorded since its February launch.
In overall free-to-air TV viewing Nine won Monday with a 27 per cent share, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets.
But, buoyed by the top-rating Masterchef, Ten pushed ahead of Seven with a 22 per cent and 21.6 per cent share respectively.
While preliminary ratings for The 7PM Project between the advertised 7-7:30pm time slot puts its share at 995,000, the show which actually went to air at 7:02pm last night, saw its share rise to a record 1.01m.
In the breakfast wars, Nine’s Today yesterday managed to push past market-leader Seven’s Sunrise.
The Today show led in Sydney and Melbourne, taking the overall FTA audience lead with 355,000, just ahead of Sunrise’s 354,000.
And while Seven’s The Morning Show remains the leader among the morning programs with 194,000, followed by Seven’s Kerri-Anne with 138,000, Ten’s The Circle appears to be stabilising, yesterday attracting an average 80,000 viewers.
This is ahead of the 68,000 9am with David and Kim averaged last year – the show The Circle replaced. It is also an improvement on the audience low of 50,000 The Circle has recorded since launch.
Monday’s most-watched shows:
- Masterchef Ten 1.818m
- Seven News Seven 1.683m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:30pm Nine 1.539m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.508m
- Nine News Nine 1.405m
- The Big Bang Theory Nine 1.360m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.311m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:00pm Nine 1.279m
- The Mentalist Nine 1.243m
- ABC News ABC 1.178m
- Home and Away Seven 1.039m
- Ten News Ten 1.024m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.995
- Good News Week Ten 0.991
- Desperate Housewives Seven 0.948
Monday’s channel share:
- Nine: 27.0%
- Ten: 22.0%
- Seven: 21.6%
- ABC1: 14.0%
- SBS1: 5.4%
- 7TWO 4.5%
- GO!: 2.2%
- ABC2: 1.4%
- One: 1.0%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- SBS2: 0.4%
I can’t believe the Circle rates so well. I sometimes tune into the Circle when I am at home and I have heard the dumbest things come out of their mouths. I wish I could remember what they exactly said but I think I have erased most of them from my memory. All I know is that I am compelled to change the TV station when their dumb comments come out of their mouths. What I mean by dumb comments is when I know more than they do and they haven’t researched an area particularly well (it isn’t hard – just Google it!).
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I used to like the 7pm project, but I’m just so over Carrie Bickmore. She’s like a bad combination of Jackie O and Bree from those awful Big Brother Friday night shows. And Charlie is so awkward on camera, he’s always cutting people off. It’s like a plane crash. And to be honest, when I first read this headline, for a split second I thought it meant they cracked a million viewers for all their eps combined…
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The 7pm Project is chugging along nicely and Ten must be very happy with it. it just goes to show what can happen when a TV network gives a new show more than 3 minutes to find its feet.
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Gee I wonder if The 7pm Project’s ratings had anything to do with the Twighlight phenomena….
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Hamish & Andy were on 7PM last night and it had the crap promoted out of it since last week. Watch the ratings grow while those guys keep appearing on it.
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I think the 7pm project is amazing…I actually know whats happening in the world because I like to watch Carrie, Charlie and Dave. Its not boring and uneventful which 99% of teenagers believe the news to be.
People forget about the young viewers out there, we like this sort of stuff, its light and entertaining but we are still getting the news.
Also, Charlie Pickering is one very talented man, so underated, I think he does brilliantly on the 7pm project.
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I know that ratings are a sample of what viewers are watching who have rating boxes in their homes but I have never in my whole tv life been part of the sample and it is only usually urban not any regional areas who have input on what rates from their viewing…
it is all very dubious I reckon!
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Why is the ‘Angry Ant’ still on the 7PM Project?
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I’m glad that The Circle has started to find an audience, I find it to be a good addition to the morning Tv landscape.
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Hi thank you Hughes for giving me my 2min fame on normans ball.Iwould like to thank ten & 7pm project as it was just so funny.
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