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Doubts over Newton’s sincerity as Seven wins Sunday

Ratings: Matthew Newton's 60 Minutes attracts negative attention but only just wins its timeslot, as Seven takes Sunday ratings.

Photo1mnThe much publicised return of 60 Minutes last night may have won its timeslot last night, but everywhere else the night went Seven’s way in what proved to be a tight tussle.

60 Minutes extended out to 90 Minutes but Nine sneakily coded the numbers into two (1.21m / 60 Minutes Extra 909,000).  The Matthew Newton interview attracted plenty of criticism on Twitter many of whom did not buy his sincerity, including some less-than-impressed industry names including Lachie Hulme, Samantha Armytage, Andrew Mercado, Ros Reines, Melissa Hoyer and Anthony ‘Lehmo’ Lehmann.

Seven’s network share was 31.4% then Nine 27.0%, TEN 19.8%, ABC 16.2% and SBS 5.5%.

Seven News (1.23m) was the night’s top show followed by Downton Abbey on 1.22m. Also for Seven were Sunday Night (1.19m), The Force (1.18m), Border Security (1.1m) and Castle (445,000).

Also for Nine were Nine News was 1.17m then The Block: All Stars (1.12m) with a room reveal coming second in its slot. New episodes of The Mentalist and CSI were 531,000 and 364,000 respectively.

Against some tough competition TEN’s Super Sunday managed to cling on, just. Elementary was 899,000 with MasterChef: The Professionals at 859,000. Modern Family was 752,000, TEN News was 532,000, The Graham Norton Show was 490,000. Bondi Rescue struggled at 476,000 and The Simpsons was just 359,000.

ABC News was best for ABC1 at 852,000 then Midsomer Murders (788,000), Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home (726,000), Dream Build (629,000), Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey (276,000) and Rev (275,000).

History Cold Case (230,000) topped SBS ONE followed by World News Australia (187,000) and the marathon Tropfest averaged 181,000.

Plonsters led multichannels with 256,000 on ABC2.

Sunday 17 February 2013

28 Responses

  1. @Gaz
    Personally suffering from bipolar disorder, and also having my father suffer from manic depression, as it was known in his days, but was changed to the more trendy bipolar disorder, simply because of the connotations that Mania/Manic conjures up, and shunned by those who suddenly develop the highly contagious but convenient stain of bipolar disorder, especially after behaving badly, or as a legal defense for outright illegal activities, or trying to protect a lucrative career.
    Your reference to arm chair psychologists who are unpaid, would have much more merit if there were not so many paid lawyers, psychologists, professors and many in the Medical Industry etc. who use and demean the effects of our sometimes debilitating disorder, for purely financial gain, derived from so many High Flyers.

    Which is worse Gratis opinions or Utter Greed?

    It seemed to me Mr Newton’s interview, was nothing but strange, or an attempt distance himself from his convenient previous claims of a now undiagnosed medical condition, and avoid having to attend expensive clinics as part of his attempts to avoid incarceration in both Aust. and United States

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