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Without The Block, Seven gets Revenge.

Ratings: Without The Block Nine slips to third place in network shares and fourth in primary channels.

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Without The Block on the box Nine has taken an immediate hit. Last night it slipped to third place, and very nearly fell into fourth.

Seven Network won the night with 31.5% followed by TEN on 21.3%, Nine 21.0%, ABC 19.7% and SBS 6.6%. But Nine’s primary channel did indeed land in fourth place behind ABC1.

Revenge (1.45m) was the night’s top show. Next for Seven were Seven News (1.36m), Today Tonight (1.23m), The Amazing Race Australia (1.1m), Home and Away (979,000), Body of Proof (769,000) and Deal or No Deal (666,000).

MasterChef Australia looks set to reap the Reality benefits of The Block having left the building. Last night it pulled 1.4m viewers, topped every demo and helped the network land second place overall. As it picks up the pace in its final month MasterChef should gather steam for TEN. The show also nearly doubled the next best for TEN which was Last Man Standing (749,000). TEN News was 746,000, NCIS was 664,000, The Project 6pm was 494,000 and The Finder was 392,000.

Without The Block, Nine had a tough night but Nine News held at 1.34m while ACA was 1.14m. Big Bang was almost half the numbers The Block used to attract at 785,000 / 771,000. Hot Seat won with 771,000, but Tricky Business had a tricky time with 558,000. CSI: Miami at 313,000 was out of contention. Nine already has big problems with Mondays.

ABC News (1.04m) did well for ABC1 then Australian Story (1.02m), Four Corners (855,000), Media Watch (732,000), 7:30 (727,000) and Q & A (721,000).

SBS pulled a good share as the Tour de France takes effect. Mythbusters was 269,000, Tour de France was 223,000 and Man vs Wild was 216,000.

On multichannels ABC2’s Olivia led the night with 303,000 while Neighbours inexplicably slipped to 263,000. Is it possible some viewers had been indulging in a Neighbours / Block combo early evenings and now that habit is broken?

Sunrise: 345,000
Today: 314,000
ABC News Breakfast:  39,000 / 22,000
Breakfast: 30,000

Monday 2 July 2012 

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  1. You would think that given how Bad Home and Away has got lately The Nerds on the Big Bang Theory would do a lot better.These Tables have shown it going the other way around.All the Soap has to do is get rid of those River Thugs once and for all and they will get their viewers back.

  3. Great to see BBT do so poorly. Ch 9 progammers deserve this for such a lazy option. Daveinprogress – full marks for trying to think laterally for 9’s schedulers. You will just need to give them a buzz and explain the concept to them though. Their idea of lateral programming is to break up a marathon of repeat BBT episodes with a 2.5 Men repeat episode,

    Are we in ratings season? I mean look at 8.00pm tonight across the Nine channels: Big Bang repeat, To the Manor Born (made over 30 years ago) and the movie Gremlins 2 (from 1990). Have they given up until the Olympics?

  4. @tomothyd – H&A has been running 7:00-7:30 (not 7:04-7:35) for about a week now. Someone must have put new batteries in the Seven clock.
    @James – Didn’t happen last year. “The State of Origin decider scored an impressive audience for Nine, but it wasn’t enough to claim the week. The deciding Origin match easily topped the week as the number one broadcast with a record 2.475 million viewers.”
    Nine also had The Block in SOO week in 2011 and still lost the week to 7.

  6. It seems to me that Seven is more consistent and not just relying one-offs…..
    Having said that….I watched barely any of the above listed shows….just Q & A and some of the Tour de France.

  9. @Guy – thanks, yes i didn’t really think it was a prospect, but trying to think laterally for 9’s schedulers – and if they have already massacred the show to make it fit a half hour commercial tv from its cable origin, 9 would do anything if it smelt ratings.

    @roaringdave – i forgot about the two big events coming up – not sure what world i live in – but with BBT so on high rotation, it is going to die in the ass as Two and a half dufus’s did! Now if Jim Parsons had a major scandal – maybe the ratings would improve again! I really like the show, and came to it 5years into its run, and i have already tired of the endless re-runs. I do get good laughs out of it though. I am hoping for Emmy nods for Simon Helberg and Mayim Bialik. They have had great seasons.

  10. Well at least Nine will win the week with State of Origin expected to break even more records and be the most watched ever! Does anyone know who will be performing during the “pre-match”?

  12. Good. I am very happy. Nine can’t just think Big Bang Theory is going to be the answer. I am glad Seven took the night and did it comfortably. They deserve to. The Amazing Race Australia should have been in this timeslot from the get go. 7:30pm is the answer. I really hope Once Upon a Time rises to over 1m tonight but could i be too hopeful? I suppose maybe i am as there is the EJ Whitten match on.

    Tricky Business got what it deserved too. The show is awful compared to Seven and TEN’s drama offerings. I am hoping this happens to Nine all week, obviously not Wednesday but would love to see Hamish and Andy drop off the planet. They are not funny and how they got 1.4m is beyond me. Nine have a few very rough weeks ahead of them before the Olympics and it will prove to all the Nine people they are not back. Last night had to prove this. It reminds of TEN when they had 7pm tent pole programming. Once it disappears the network goes down the drain.

    @daveinprogress

    Nope. It has course language, a couple of sex scenes and nudity. No way is it a 7pm show.

  13. Surprised TEN’s Bfast still on 30,000.
    Channel Nine was 4th on 13.8, ABC1 3rd on 15.4. TEN, on 16.6 barely managed to beat ABC1 again despite MasterChef.
    When your 5:30 program beats everything you can muster from 7:30, yes, Nine does have big problems.
    So more people watched Q&A than watched Nine & TEN combined? Wow.

  14. Please Ch9 keep Csi Miami going until the Olympics! Let us see the end of the Final season after multiple time slots & nights! I will be happy with 2 eps Sun & Mon as my epg states for next week until it finishes!

  15. It’s interesting to see the numbers redistributed now the Block has finished. I like Tricky Business, but if it can’t rate better than that in an 8pm timeslot, I don’t think it will be renewed.

  16. The Oversaturation Disposition of The Big Bang Theory will cause 9 to knee jerk, and replace it within a couple of weeks – but with what? Could it strip Episodes for a few weeks in the 7pm slot?
    Or Sale of the Last Century?

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