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TEN tops Tuesday

It's been quite some time since we've been able to spy TEN at the top of the overnight ratings, but last night it managed to push Seven back to third place.

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It’s been quite some time since we’ve been able to spy TEN at the top of the overnight ratings, but last night it managed to push Seven back to third place. Just a pity it’s in the non-ratings break.

Still, NCIS soared to 1.5m and that was for a repeat episode. It bettered a first-run Grey’s Anatomy (936,000) and new Survivor (837,000) and gave a new NCIS: Los Angeles a strong 1.3m viewers. Private Practice (679,000) and 20 to 1 (619,000) trailed.

TEN even did promisingly elsewhere. For the second night in a row The 7PM Project was over the 740,000 mark, The Biggest Loser took 937,000, Bondi Rescue was 1.14m but Neighbours had to settle for 608,000.

Seven held off its factual staples at 7:30 airing the special Eye of the Leopard at 7:30pm which managed 860,000.

The share for TEN’s primary channel was more than Seven and 7TWO combined. It was a good night in demos for the network, notably from 8:30 onwards.

Week 14

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  1. What Ten really need to do is go back to the drawing board for a suitable 6pm offering.Simpsons Repeats are getting old and tiring.Time for something new.
    I do wish something was done about the Neighbours ratings A show like that is supposed to be an escapism from reality for 30 minutes a day.

  3. @Harry – Thanks for the info, as you can tell I’ve only been watching NCIS for the last year or so.

    @astrogirl – I’m the same with you. I don’t normally watch NCIS:LA – but when I saw Abby in the trailer it made me watch it. I assume this was the same for a lot of people, hence the higher than normal ratings.

  4. I’ve not been interested in NCIS LA until last night and that was only because Abby was in it. Still, it wasn’t enough to make me want to watch it regularly even though I looooove NCIS.

    Neighbours we watch every day (or record it and watch it all in one night) but its been getting tiring. As Beckala said, Lynn Scully annoys the heck out of me, so her return has been putting me off, and the Toad/Steph things is ridiculous for so many reasons I don’t even know where to start. Most of the storylines lately seem to be repeats of previous ones and so you know what it is going happen, so why watch?

  5. @ Craig – Season Finale of S5 saw Director Vance send each of the members of Gibbs’ team away in order to expose a mole that was situated in NCIS. Dinozzo was sent to Agent Afloat on the carrier, Ziva to Israel and McGee to the sub basement.

    Im not a huge fan of NCIS LA, however last nights episode was better than some of actual NCIS episodes this season. Great ratings!

  6. @wamdue what is meant by that is the UK fund much of Neighbours production costs and the cost to Ten is very little other than putting a massive hole on their networks schedule.

    I am not sure if content quota includes the digital channels; I would imagine any Australian Drama airing on any of the commerical networks channels be it digital or not would count towards the networks total quota.

  7. @Craig – there are many reason why we get re-runs mid season, mostly to extend the new ep out over a longer period, and not to waste new eps in non ratings as every ratings point counts. But also in the case of the likes of The Mentalist, ch Nine has caught up with the US so they have little choice but to show re-runs they know will rate or gamble on a different show.

    As for NCIS they still have 4 unaired new eps so technically they have no reason to show a re-runs yet.

  8. At the moment, Neighbours is possibly the worst it has ever been. The return of Lyn Scully annoys the crap out of me, the stupid “Steph and Toadie pretending to date” storyline is just repetitive and dreadful – I find myself actually swapping to ACA or TT if I’m ever in front of the tv at that time.

    I am loving 7PP at the moment – the mix of comedy and serious is just right now – good to see them looking at substantial stories instead of relying on Dave Hughes yelling out a punchline. It has become must see tv rather than a filler while we’re waiting for other shows to start.

  9. I wish networks wouldn’t put repeats of shows in the middle of a new series at the same time. It really does spoil the continuity of the series. Great as last nights episode was I spent the first 10 minutes wondering how Dinozzo had been tranfered to work on the carrier.

    I don’t understand why they can’t just carry on showing the new series as it is still getting the same numbers.

  10. @ryaneco Neighbours is not paid for by the UK licence fee, its now on commercial channel Five

    Would TEN not be breaking a broadcasting rule by shifting Neighbours to a new 3rd channel?

  11. Hopefully 7pm can continue to at least the very least not drop below these figures throughout the week.

    IMO the problem with Ten’s schedule is really at 6-7pm Simpsons and Neighbours simply are not cutting it. They can’t even claim good demo performers; they may occasionally win the 16-39 demo but even when they do it is by the smallest margin; these shows can’t be sustained much longer.

    Maybe with Ten’s 3rd digital channel they could shift Neighbours to being a key show for the digital channel (as it is basically paid off by the UK license fee) and that way reinvent their early evening.

  12. I dont know if attracting more viewers on Tuesday, than you did on Monday, should be considered settling, where Neighbours is concerned.

    NCIS proves all over the world, a good show that does not panda to younger demographics, can be a massive hit.

  13. Great news for TEN and NCIS, love it won the night and on a re-run.

    Top Gear seems to have leveled out at just above 1.3 million, even if this week was a re-run. So does this mean it’s not been the ratings power house they were hoping for?

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