Underbelly wins but Hanson drives the current affairs audiences

Tim Burrowes

March 17, 2009 11:20

Underbelly’s audience slipped slightly but still helped Nine to an easy ratings win on a Monday night that was dominated by Pauline Hanson.

Underbelly delivered an average of a little under 2.2m viewers, according to preliminary data from Oztam – about 100,000 down on last week.

Meanwhile, Seven won the Pauline Hanson battle. Today Tonight – featuring the man who claimed to have taken nude pictures of the politician – scored an average audience of 1.4m. It beat Nine’s A Current Affair which featured Hanson herself, denying the claims, and delivered an audience of 1.2m.

Last night’s share: Nine 32.2%; Seven 25.7%; Ten 20%; ABC 14.2%; SBS 7.8%

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.