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Jacki Weaver lifts night for SBS -but Seven pips Tuesday

Ratings: Just 0.1% separated Seven and Nine last night, but SBS had some quiet wins too.

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2014-07-23_1010It was a ‘tight-arse Tuesday’ as ratings go, with Seven just 0.1% ahead of Nine thanks to Nine’s multichannels.

But it was also a good night for SBS with Who Do You Think You Are? scoring over half a million viewers and Insight pushing ABC into 5th place in its timeslot.

Elsewhere MasterChef very nearly won its timeslot over X Factor.

Seven Network won the night -just with 29.3%- over Nine’s 29.2%, then TEN 20.4%, ABC 13.4% and SBS 7.7%.

The X Factor was Seven’s best performer at 1.17m then Seven News (1.15m / 1.01m), Home and Away (913,000), Winners and Losers (860,000), Million Dollar Minute (645,000). Chicago Fire was 332,000 / 219,000.

Nine News topped the night for Nine at 1.21m / 1.19m then a season high for Gap Year South America (1.05m), A Current Affair (1.00m), Big Bang (740,000 / 709,000), Hot Seat (662,000) and Arrow (416,000 / 267,000).

MasterChef remains strong at 1.12m for TEN then The Project (701,000 / 470,000) and TEN Eyewitness News (626,000). Under the Dome was 466,000 and NCIS: LA was 307,000.

ABC News (889,000) led for ABC then 7:30 (648,000), Foreign Correspondent (472,000), QI (452,000) At the Movies (275,000). The final Art + Soul limped in at 200,000 -last in its place.

SBS had a strong night thanks to Who Do You Think You Are? at 514,000 then Insight (269,000), Dateline (188,000 in 4 cities), Tour de France (181,000) and SBS World News (175,000).

GEM’s Midsomer Murders was best on multichannels with 313,000.

The Morning Show: 160,000
Mornings: 103,000
Studio 10: 56,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 22 July 2014

7 Responses

  1. Well done to SBS on your ratings . I was one of those viewers who was watching WDYTYA. great programme .and the reason I watched was because of all the promos of the show during the FIFA World Cup of soccer.millions watched the World Cup the cross promotion was very good for SBS.

  3. Loving Under the Dome, and still yet to finish the book (which is very different from the TV show).

    But alot of these sci-fi series should have a beginning, middle and defined ending rather than being renewed season after season.

    It is the dragging out over seasons that brings most of these shows down.

    I remember the first season of Heroes was unmissable TV! And rated that way too! After the 3rd season it just went down… Prison Break was another one that started well then lost the plot over the seasons…

  4. Happy to see a more competitive tussle between Seven, Nine and Ten at 7.30 and also pleased to see X Factor ratings are well down on last year.

    Also surprised to see such a large drop for Under the Dome from last year. Beaten by Big Bang repeats, really?

  5. @Pete

    Story is OK, its the acting thats getting worse, especially the teenagers who play Joe and Melanie – the script obviously isnt the best, but their acting is horrible

  6. Under the Dome would be a great movie concept, but as a tv series it is typical US fodder of a long drawn out storyline that could easily be told in a few hours. I just can’t be bothered with it…

  8. Viewers are saying that Under the Dome storyline is not as strong this year.

    Wait until next week’s numbers when it does not have the Masterchef lead in. 466K at 8.30 is not good.

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