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Local product still a winner.

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Local drama premiere City Homicide helped Seven continue its “dream run year” with a win in Week 35 of Ratings.

Seven finished one point ahead of Nine, with a 27.4% and 26.4% shares respectively. TEN finished with 23.3%, the ABC 16.2% and SBS had 6.8%..

Kath & Kim was again the biggest show of the week, but down around 500,000 viewers on its noisy premiere. It was followed for Seven by Border Security, The Force, the first episode of City Homicide, RSPCA Animal Rescue, Medical Emergency, My Name is Earl, Seven News, Today Tonight, Home and Away and All Saints. Seven’s success with local product continues to lead its ratings wins, but problems persist for Wednesdays which has seen the network announce the return of Las Vegas. Ghost Whisperer is also doing little to help on Thursday nights.

Nine’s free to air screening of The King telemovie had its thunder stolen, first by Foxtel’s premiere in May, and secondly by Seven unveiling City Homicide. The result was a disappointing return for Nine, although ACA benefitted from Bert Newton sharing his thoughts on Kennedy. Nine’s top show of the week was Sunday News, followed by ACA, Sea Patrol, 60 Minutes, Temptation, Backyard Blitz (including a win over Australia’s Best Backyards) and The Footy Show. Problems persist for Nine from Mondays to Wednesdays with no show past 7:30pm achieving big figures.

TEN’s decision to air nightly finalist sing-offs of Australian Idol for the second year has again paid off. But it was House (and even a Making of House) gained huge interest. Also finishing well was the return of So You Think You Can Dance and NCIS. Meanwhile the show that is pushing buttons with purists Californication had a good premiere on a strong night. But Sundays are a concern, with TEN landing fourth behind the ABC (again!).

The ABC’s Midsomer Murders continues to upstage the commercials while Spicks and Specks, ABC News, Worst Jobs in History and Australian Story were all good.

While media talk circled over SBS management, Thursday was its strongest night thanks to the IAAF Athletics.

Ratings Week 35

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  1. Yes Shark is out of schedule. I may have missed adding it as a news post (you try and keep up with embargos and then remember to post it once its cleared!).

    Added to Missing in Action thread.

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