Winners & Winners for Seven in Tuesday’s ratings
Seven’s new female-focused drama Winners & Losers appears to have found a solid audience, with the second episode winning Tuesday night with average ratings of nearly 1.6m.
The third episode, aired immediately afterwards, delivered just over 1.4m, winning its timeslot.
The show made its debut last week in Seven’s Packed To The Rafters timeslot with an audience of 1.611m.
Meanwhile, production company Fremantle announced this morning that it has picked up the international distribution rights to the first series of Winners & Losers, which it says will consist of 22 episodes.
David Ellender, global CEO of Fremantle Media Enterprises, said: “Winners & Losers is a truly fantastic addition to the FME drama slate of programming. Seven Network have a great eye for quality drama and Winners & Losers has all the right ingredients to be a big global success.”
Seven took the first five slots in the list of Tuesday’s most watched shows, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam. Winners & Losers (1.566m) was followed by My Kitchen Rules (1.499m), and the next episode of Winners & Losers (1.42m). Then came Seven News (1.182m) and Today Tonight (1.154m).
Ten’s only show above a million was NCIS with 1.131m, while Nine News scraped home with 1.001m.
On the secondary channels, Neighbours (334,000) performed for Eleven while Survivor rated 305,000 for Go.
Tuesday’s top 15 shows:
- Winners & Losers Seven 1.566m
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.499m
- Winners & Losers – Episode 2 Seven 1.420m
- Seven News Seven 1.182m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.154m
- NCIS – Episode 1 Ten 1.131m
- Nine News Nine 1.001m
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 0.965m
- Home and Away Seven 0.951m
- ABC News ABC 0.926m
- A Current Affair Nine 0.905m
- The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.862m
- NCIS – Episode 2 Ten 0.758m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.722m
- Ten News – 5:00pm Ten 0.690m
Tuesday’s station share:
- Seven: 27.4%
- Ten: 18.3%
- Nine: 17.0%
- ABC1: 10.7%
- GO!: 4.6%
- SBS1: 3.9%
- 7mate: 3.7%
- Eleven: 3.5%
- 7TWO 3.1%
- Gem: 2.4%
- ABC2: 1.9%
- One: 1.2%
- SBS2: 0.9%
- ABC3: 0.8%
- ABC News 24: 0.6%