Mike & Molly’s return offers slim pickings for Nine in Wednesday ratings
Nine’s night of obesity-themed programming failed to pile on the ratings, with the return of Mike & Molly wheezing with 627,000, and Big, Nine’s answer to The Biggest Loser, attracting a frail 534,000.
It was a rough Wednesday night for Nine overall, with not a single non-news show pushing above 1m viewers. The Big Bang Theory was closest, with 976,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
With no Australia’s Got Talent, which pulled in 1.9m for the first of the semi finals on Tuesday night, Masterchef broke its own season’s best record with 1.602m, forging ahead of the 1.577m it drew on Monday.
ABC1’s Angry Boys recovered slightly after slumping last week, when State of Origin dominated the evening. The Chris Lilley show attracted 920,000, still a shadow of the 1.369m it won when the show debuted.
The rivalry between breakfast shows Today and Sunrise ran close again, with Sunrise pipping Today by just 19,000 viewers. Today won the morning in Sydney and Melbourne.
Wednesday night’s top 15 shows:
1. Masterchef Ten 1.602
2. Seven News Seven 1.359
3. Today Tonight Seven 1.325
4. Nine News Nine 1.174
5. Highway Patrol Seven 1.130
6. Home and Away Seven 1.129
7. Criminal Minds – Episode 1 Seven 1.087
8. Glee Ten 1.036
9. A Current Affair Nine 1.026
10. World’s Deadliest Roads Seven 1.019
11. The Big Bang Theory – 7:30pm Nine 0.976
12. Spicks and Specks ABC 0.957
13. The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm Nine 0.941
14. Angry Boys ABC 0.920
15. ABC News ABC 0.918
Wednesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 22.9%
- Ten: 19.8%
- Nine: 18.1%
- ABC1: 12.0%
- 7TWO 5.2%
- SBS1: 3.8%
- Eleven: 3.7%
- 7mate: 3.3%
- ABC2: 2.5%
- Gem: 2.4%
- One: 2.4%
- GO!: 2.3%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
