Underbelly TV ratings fall below 2m

Underbelly’s audience fell below two million for new episodes for the first time this series, last night’s ratings reveal.  

The return to fresh material after the non-ratings period ended, delivered audiences of 1.8m for each of the episodes, according to preliminary ratings figures from OzTam.

The fall may be partly due to viewers getting out of the Monday night habit during the non-ratings period when repeats were shown. And the show was also up against reasonably strong competition, with Good News Week on Ten (which drew an audience of 830,000) and Desperate Housewives on Seven, which rated just over 1m.

However, it was still an easy ratings win for Nine for the night. Share: Nine – 32.4%; Seven – 24.4%; Ten – 18.9%; ABC – 16.3%; SBS – 8.1%.

So far this week, Nine is well ahead of Seven with share of 31.1% versus 24.9%.

Top rating TV shows:

1. Underbelly Episode 1 – Nine 1.8m
2. Underbelly Episode 2 – Nine 1.8m
3. Seven News – Seven 1.7m
4. Today Tonight – Seven 1.6m
5. Nine News – Nine 1.3m
6. Missing Pieces – Nine 1.3m
7. A Current Affair – Nine 1.2m
8. ABC News – ABC 1.1m
9. The Biggest Loser – Ten 1.1m
10. Home and Away – Seven 1.1m

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. He now writes industry newsletter Unmade - subscribe at unmade.media

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Comments: 3

Kris Olin 21 Apr 09

Somehow I’m not surprised. The first installment of Underbelly was a lot more interesting and had more twists in the plot. This new series is just bouncing around Aussie Bob and those New Zealanders Terry Clark and that blonde girl, whatshername?

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Mr Corbett 22 Apr 09

Fantastic – I couldn’t be happier about this. I think it is wonderful that now Channel 9 have finished treating their audience with such distain with their ‘easter programming’ (aka watch shit until the ad dollars come back) that people have walked and not come back.
You get what you deserve in the end.

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Daniel 29 Apr 09

I was enjoying Underbelly, but when they started showing double episodes, that was too much. I’m happy to watch an hour a week, but few TV shows are worthy of writing-off an entire evening.

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