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Gruen, still the one.

ABC1 led from 8:30pm - 10pm as viewers began to switch off commercial offerings and gravitate to its entertainment line-up.

The ABC may not have won Wednesday night, but it led from 8:30pm – 10pm as viewers began to switch off commercial offerings and gravitate to its entertainment line-up.

Gruen Planet’s 1.13m was only bettered last night by Seven News at 1.17m, but together with Spicks and Specks (996,000) was enough to win its hour. They beat Glee (843,000), CSI (734,000), Criminal Minds (660,000) and Born Every Minute (239,000).

The Hamster Wheel‘s premiere (857,000) was a relatively soft debut by Chaser standards and a drop from its lead in, but we are in a more multichannel environment than their previous outings. It was enough to beat Prime Suspect (539,000), Hawaii Five-O (521,000) and a very ordinary Law & Order: LA (428,000). At The Movies fell to 357,000 for ABC1.

Earlier in the evening The One won its timeslot on 945,000 ahead of Modern Family / The Renovators (825,000 / 754,000), Send In The Dogs Australia (729,000) and Tropic Of Cancer on 189,000.

Heartbeat led multichannels on 334,000.

Seven won the night and is leading the week despite Nine’s big Sunday lead.

Week 41

10 Responses

  1. I’m watching / recording Gruen tonight as I had to record Glee because the Mr has banned it from joint viewing.

    We watched Louis Theroux and then American Pickers.

  2. @ Nik C – its a shame that TEN haven’t bothered catching the states up with the second half of season 2 when it was shown in NSW and QLD. Its a bigger shame that people are boycotting the show as it is terrific (another USA Network masterpiece) and TEN could use all the viewers it can get so they don’t bump another one of their shows. May I suggest online streaming sites to catch up on the missed episodes so your up to date?

  3. Would be interested to see if these figures change at all once timeshifting is factored in. We tend to watch the ad-free ABC on Wednesday nights and tape Channel Ten’s offerings so we can watch them ad-free later. I’m sure we’re not the only ones!

  4. Is that the lowest primetime figure Nine have ever had for a fresh episode of CSI? It’s a far cry from the glory days where it would pull 1.5+ million every week.

    Third in its slot behind Glee, and almost beaten by the axed Criminal Minds spinoff.

  5. @ Josh you are lucky you are upto date. More than half the counrty are not, and are all rejecting Season 3 since they are stuck in Season 2 and there was no catch up option that I knew of!

  6. I forgot about The One… does anyone know if it’s being replayed or must I now gravitate away from this fine blog to Seven’s ad filled site?

  7. David do you know how White Collar went at 10:30pm on TEN? I hate its timeslot and will be watching on TEN’s catch-up site, but can see it being bumped due to ratings in that timeslot when its target audience are on the net, phone, or in bed =p.

  8. Great for Gruen, but what caught me most was Glee’s result being #2 in the timeslot, that’s great even if a little more ratings would be nice. Hopefully ten sticks to their plans to play them soon after the US to combat all the illegal downloads it gets

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