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Royal prank DJ interview draws more viewers for Sunday Night on Seven

Seven’s Sunday Night show got a big lift last night with former DJ Mel Greig opening up about the fallout from the royal prank call incident grabbing an extra 150,000 viewers on last week.

The show, which got 1.124m viewers, was sixth overall and second in its 7.30pm to 8.30pm timeslot, behind Nine’s The Voice, which won the night with 1.886 million viewers, and 60 Minutes which got 1.198m viewers according to the OzTam preliminary overnight metro ratings.

Nine won the night with 27.1 per cent of the viewers, and Seven managed to get the second most viewers overall with a 21.2 per cent share, followed by Ten with 11.7 per cent, down from 14.8 per cent last week, and The ABC on 10.7 per cent.

In the 6pm news battle Nine News won with 1.401 million viewers beating Seven News which grabbed 1.344 million.

Seven’s reality renovation show House Rules at 6.30pm got a slight lift in fourth with 1.301 million, up from 1.264m last Sunday ad was second in its timeslot after The Voice.

A Place to call Home continued to perform well in the 8.30pm time slot for Seven but fell just shy of the 1 million mark, drawing  966,000 to earn seventh place.

For Ten Masterchef got 885,000 viewers for the show from 8pm, which had a weaker lead-in with two repeats of Modern Family grabbing just 507,000 and 409,000 viewers each from 6.30pm, compared to last week when 808,000 tuned in for the wedding episode.

ABC News at 7pm  was ninth with 802,000 and The Mentalist on Nine came in Tenth with 663,000.

Top 15 shows

1. The Voice Nine 1.886 million

2. Nine News Nine 1.401 million

3. Seven News Seven 1.344 million

4. House Rules Seven 1.301 million

5. 60 Minutes Nine 1.198 Million

6. Sunday Night Seven 1.124 million

7. A Place To Call Home Seven 966,000

8. MasterChef Ten 885,000

9. ABC News ABC 802,000

10. The Mentalist Nine 663,000

11. Silent Witness ABC 630,000

12. ABC New Evening Update ABC 590,000

13. Restoration Home ABC 546,000

14. Modern Family RPT Ten507,000

15. Ten Eyewitness News Ten 499,000

Overall audience share

Nine 27.1%

Seven 21.2%

Ten 11.7%

ABC1 10.7%

ABC2 3.5%

ABC3 0.7%

ABC News 24 1.0%

7TWO 2.9%

7mate 5.3%

GO! 3.9%

Gem 2.8%

ONE 2.1%

ELEVEN 2.9%

SBS ONE 3.4%

SBS 2 0.5%

NITV 0.4%

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