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Australia’s Got Talent nudges 2.2m

Good old fashioned variety brings them out in droves, as Seven's Grand Final of Australia's Got Talent scores 2.19m viewers leaving other talent shows in its wake.

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The Grand Final of Australia’s Got Talent knocked the competition out of the park last night with a whopping 2.19m viewers -a record across its five seasons.

The dazzling contest of 10 variety acts delivered Seven a primary channel share of 32.4% -its highest rating night of 2011. The network share went higher still, to 38.5%, snatching back a lead that Nine had been accruing over two nights.

The figures for Australia’s Got Talent toppled other talent shows: 2010: The X Factor: The Winner Announced 1.83m, 2009 Australian Idol: The Winner Announced 1.47m, 2010: So You Think You Can Dance Australia: Winner Announced 1.04m.

It even beat the 2.02m viewers for th is year’s My Kitchen Rules finale -and it is yet to reveal its winner next week.

The 2 hour finale dwarfed the other offerings last night, but here’s how the rest of them stacked up.

The Block won at 7pm with 1.51m viewers, over Home and Away (1.13m), ABC News (898,000) and The 7PM Project (698,000).

MasterChef Australia, in which Michael missed Immunity by 1 point, did respectable business at 1.35m viewers, followed by The Big Bang Theory / RBT Nine (879,000 / 763,000), 7.30 / Foreign Correspondent (528,000 / 514,000), and Insight (136,000).

For The Renovators to hold its audience at 974,000 against the might of Australia’s Got Talent is encouraging. By contrast Top Gear dropped to 657,000. On the ABC Wonders Of The Universe was 463,000.

The debut of Dinner Date Australia was 1.11m viewers, winning its slot. Despite losing half its AGT lead-in it was an impressive figure for a 9:30pm show.

James May’s Man Lab flopped on just 289,000 at 10pm.

Neighbours was best on multichannels with 365,000 viewers.

Seven won the night.

Week 31

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  2. Great to see the figures for Agt, and also good to see Renovators still rated well against it. One can only wonder how the Winner Announced show of AGT next Tuesday will rate, perhaps higher

  3. Neighbours would be dead if not sold to other countries.I don’t think USA or Canada shows it though they have their own 90210 type shows there so other than New Zealand or the UK where do they actually export it to remains the question?

  4. Those are disgraceful numbers for brand new Top Gear UK, Nine has really killed the golden goose that cost them a fortune to steal from SBS. The promotion doesn’t help either, ‘girlie cars’ seriously they were hot hatches, (apart from Hammond’s) something of a staple in the UK and growing more popular here with the higher fuel prices.

    Nine should have aired the local version by now, 7 months into the year and still nothing, at this rate we’ll get another 3 eps in November and that will be it. And god nows what has happened to the US version, where they just started their 2nd season.

    Good on Seven, at this rate they will make a clean sweep of every ratings week this year!

  5. Wow no wonder Idol and SYTYCD got canned with those figures.

    So there is yet another week of AGT left? It seems as if this show has been going on forever already..

  8. With all these variety acts obviously entertaining people so much, when is one of the networks going to consider an old fashioned variety programme. The talent is obviously there. I realise the competition thing is important, but what about all those great acts discovered in previous years, don’t we need a platform for them to grow and develop? Otherwise they never develop their full potential.

  9. What do ch9 do with Top Gear, we all know they only have themselves to blame for wrecking it. But they were rumoured to have spent $25 million to get it. Can they rebuild the brand? What do they do with it now?

    When PTTR comes back possibly after AGT, they will still get demolished. My view is that they should relocate it to Thursday night.

  10. If Winners & Losers was on last night I reckon Seven might have cracked 40%. Perhaps Nine should allow SBS to ‘Welcome Home’ Top Gear now that viewers have deserted it. It is now a toxic brand on Nine.

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