Australian Story, Block score but Seven wins Monday
Ratings: ABC's Garry McDonald profile wins its timeslot, and Big Bang Theory is already adding to 7mate.
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For the end of a long weekend, in at least 3 states, Monday was not a particularly high-rating night. Normally we might expect much higher figures than the 1.09m reached last night.
But the break from routine may have had some impact on the numbers, with Australian Story‘s profile on Garry McDonald proving to be the top rating non-news show of the night, at 1.05m viewers.
The Block also beat X Factor both in Total People and demos -perhaps the latter’s average was affected by its duration, not wrapping until 10pm.
Interestingly, 7mate’s Big Bang has taken no time to grab interest. GO’s head to hear 7pm edition (148,000) outranked 7mate’s (109,000) but then 7mate lifted to 204,000 and 217,000 for further outings.
Homeland made a modest return for TEN unable to hold the lead in from Have You Been Paying Attention?
Seven network won with 30.1% then Nine 27.3%, ABC 20.1%, TEN 17.2% and SBS 5.3%.
Seven News (1.09m / 1.02m) topped Seven’s night followed by The X Factor (948,000), Home and Away (752,000), The Chase (628,000 / 447,000) and What Really Happens in Thailand? (474,000). How to Get Away with Murder was just 157,000.
Nine News (1.07m / 1.06m) led for Nine then The Block (1.02m), A Current Affair (969,000), House Husbands (690,000), Hot Seat (581,000) and CSI (349,000 / 196,000).
Australian Story (1.05m) won its timeslot for ABC then 7:30 (910,000), ABC News (866,000), Four Corners (746,000), Media Watch (656,000) and Q & A (531,000).
The Project (620,000 / 445,000) was best for TEN. Have You Been Paying Attention? was 578,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 558,000, TBL Families was 531,000 and Homeland was just 208,000.
On SBS it was The Wonder of Dogs (254,000), Cats Uncovered (146,000), Hunters of the South Seas (146,000) and SBS World News (130,000).
7TWO’s A Touch of Frost led multichannels with 294,000.
Sunrise: 309,000
Today: 291,000
ABC News Breakfast: 90,000 / 45,000
OzTAM Overnights: Monday 5 October 2015
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just thinking that since Homeland rates well in the US that a lot of people hear must watch it as well, much more then 200,000, I’m sure many people are getting it from torrent sites instead, with it being fast tracked there should be no excuse for downloading it.
When I get home from work I set reminders on the EPG on the TV and unless the show before it is really live the reminders are about 90% accurate. If you believed The Green Guide or The Herald Sun for program times (or even correct programs) you’d be missing out on half your viewing. e.g. The Blacklist is on at 8.30PM on Thursday while all the guides have it on at 9.30PM.
Newsflash it’s actually 8:30 Wednesday.
Went to watch Homeland on Ten as I said I would. Gave it until 9:40 and then switched off. If Ten can’t be bothered to start a program when they say they will then I can’t be bothered to watch programs on their network.
I hope you have cable
I guess you don’t watch 7/9/10 then. All as bad as each other!
Your guess is correct.
Ten have shown a lot of faith in Homeland and The Good Wife for years now and they continue to under perform. Last nights Homeland numbers are no surprise.
What else are they supposed to show, more repeats of NCIS/SVU?
lots of people watch homeland, it seems most are downloading it instead, despite it being fast tracked, whats there excuse now?
Whose excuse?
Do lots of people still like Homeland?
It’s average ratings for each season have gone 1m, 600k, 400k, 300k and now 200k.
The EPG was 9:44pm in Sydney, which was accurate.
Are those numbers for How To Get Away With Murder series 2 or reruns?
S2.
Am I wrong to assume 7 has not advertised series 2 in any way? I love the show and would have be happy to have stayed up all hours of the night to watch it.
If you click on the show’s Tag you will see the various stories that covered its return here. As for Seven itself, I can’t confirm.
Nope, I havent seen a single ad for it. Seven have given up on this show, just like they gave up on Scandal and Once Upon A Time, which are now over a year behind the US airdates.
Considering half of last night’s Australian Story was a re-edit from another 13 years ago, it rated incredibly! It is great that people are still fascinated by Garry. I am. I feel very lucky i got to meet and work with him a long time ago, but it was one of my career’s highlights. He is a national treasure. Good to see many local shows holding their own, ratings wise.
What were the numbers for How to Get Away with murder?
157,000. I have now added.
recorded it…any wonder it has those numbers look at what time they put it on !
Right… With X Factor overrun the show didn’t start until 11 Pm. Same with Homeland which didn’t start until 9:45 Pm because of Biggest Loser overrrun. And networks wonder why people download and aren’t watching as much TV live. I don’t know when the last time was that I sat down to watching live on free to air tv was, it’s either DVR’d or obtained by other means.
Even with 20 mins added for recording Homeland, I still had to record NCIS to see the end.
I’ve said this before and I’m going to say it again, what 7 should’ve done is had a shonda night on 7two and aired greys, htgawm and scandal instead of these not airing or being on very late at night.
2 eps of greys has already aired in the USA and no sign of it here and its supposedly being fast tracked.
Scandal is a season behind.
Did anyone know that htgawm was on cause I didn’t see any promos on 7 and 11pm ish seems awfully late.
7 will continue putting their heads in the sand and treating these shows and their viewers like rubbish.