TV ratings: Aussies prefer The Bible to Abba

The big budget retelling of The Bible delivered a solid audience for Nine last night with the first two episodes of the Mark Burnett produced miniseries rating metro audiences of 880,000 and 793,000 between 9pm and 11pm.

The Bible held its own against Seven’s Winners & Losers which averaged 867,000 from 8.45pm to 9.45pm.

And on Ten Under The Dome, from 8.30pm to 9.30pm, rated 900,000. NICIS Los Angeles, from 9.30pm to 10.30pm rated 550,000.

ABC1’s New Tricks rated 807,000 from 8.30pm top 9.30pm. At The Movies with guest hosts Judith Lucy and Jason Di Rosso rated 450,000.

Meanwhile, Nine dominated viewing earlier in the night, with The Block biggest show of the evening rating 1.39m. Nine’s cooking show The great Australian Bake Off stayed the right side of 1m, with an audience of 1.089m.

Ten’s Masterchef Australia – which involved a scavenger hunt road trip and contestants cooking omlettes and making club sandwiches – rated 719,000.

Seven’s documentary Abba: Dancing Queen bombed, with an audience of 684,000. It repalced The Mole, which was pulled from the sxchedule last wek after poor ratings.

In the breakfast battle, Seven’s Sunrise beat Nine’s Today by 383,000 to 358,000, with wins in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Today won Melbourne.

Top 15:

1. The Block Nine 1.390m
2. Nine News Nine 1.353m
3. Seven News Seven 1.261m
4. A Current Affair Nine 1.095m
5. The Great Australian Bake Off Nine 1.089m
6. Today Tonight Seven 1.082m
7. ABC News ABC 0.965m
8. Home and Away Seven 0.958m
9. Under The Dome Ten 0.900m
10. The Bible – Episode 1 Nine 0.880m
11. Winners and Losers Seven 0.867m
12. New Tricks ABC 0.807m
13. The Bible – Episode 2 Nine 0.793m
14. 7:30 ABC 0.768m
15. Hot Seat Nine 0.744m

Audience share:

• Nine: 25.2%
• Seven: 18.1%
• Ten: 14.3%
• ABC1: 12.8%
• SBS1: 5.9%
• GO!: 4.8%
• 7TWO: 4.7%
• ABC2: 3.2%
• Gem: 2.4%
• Eleven: 2.4%
• 7mate: 2.3%
• One: 1.8%
• ABC News 24: 0.8%
• ABC3: 0.6%
• SBS2: 0.6%
• NITV: 0.1%

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 2

shameful 17 Jul 13

This is clearly a monumental stuff up by Naked.

What I find most shameful though is (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons)

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Encyclic! 17 Jul 13

It’s been done before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H....._Mary_Pass

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