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First Dates drops but Seven sweeps Wednesday

Ratings: The bad news: First Dates drops a pile. The good news: Seven won every primetime slot.

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First Dates dropped a big chunk of its audience in its fourth outing last night.

At 735,000 viewers it won its timeslot, but it was down 243,000 viewers on last week when MKR had an audience which was a season high at the time.

Yet other networks were still a long way off, with Nine dropping The Embassy for a movie. Madam Secretary, Black Comedy and Vikings were all some distance.

The audience drop was the only bad news for Seven on a night where it won all its primetime slots.

Seven network won the night with 32.9% then Nine 28.0%, TEN 16.7%, ABC 15.5% and SBS 6.8%.

My Kitchen Rules (1.48m) then Seven News (1.01m / 967,000), Home and Away  (866,000), First Dates (735,000), The Chase (581,000 / 409,000) and Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (332,000).

 

Nine News (941,000 / 922,000), A Current Affair (798,000), The Big Bang Theory (783,000 / 710,000), Hot Seat (486,000) and Movie: The Blind Side (468,000).

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here was 694,000 for TEN. The Project was 555,000 / 409,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 496,000, Madam Secretary was 426,000 and The Good Wife was 230,000.

ABC News (785,000) led for ABC then 7:30 (625,000), Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery (558,000), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (529,000),  Black Comedy (347,000) and The Last Leg (267,000). Antiques Roadshow was 266,000.

On SBS it was Vikings (321,000), Walking Through History (222,000), The Real Vikings with Neil Oliver (133,000) and SBS World News (123,000).

Peppa Pig was again best on multichannels at 225,000.

Sunrise: 329,000
Today:  313,000
ABC News Breakfast: 91,000 / 48,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 24 February 2016

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  1. has First Dates been on for four weeks? on once a week or once a week with one repeat per week, who on earth can keep up with it all?! As i’ve said before, encore editions can do more harm than good as people then get confused if & when its going to be first view or encore, epg doesn’t always say. So maybe they don’t watch if they think its encore then ratings drop.

  2. Like others I have completely lost interest in this round with Colin, I just wish they could have got someone with more personality and that washes their hair to sit with Rachel Khoo who is an absolute delight on it, but Colin seems intent on trying to steal her limelight….

  3. Madam Secretary was excellent last night totally didn’t want that episode to end. Also glad that we saw more development with Alicia and Lucca’s relationship in The Good Wife last night.

  4. Have Seven News (nationally) won the last few weeks over Nine News, across the 6pm-7pm hour-slot?
    It’s certainly been a lot closer, I’d suggest, than a year ago when Nine normally had a clear-lead. Main difference: The Chase trending higher than the opposition across the 5pm-6pm hour, compared to the previous re-runs of Deal or No Deal and Million Dollar Minute.

  5. Madam Secretary must be the most falsely advertised show on television. Last week’s program was supposed to be about The President being held hostage but it ended up being the president of Burma, this week was advertised as Elizabeth being in a dilemma about helping a family member but in the show 30 seconds later she made a call on her mobile and solved the problem. It’s a better than average show completely trashed but dubious and misleading advertising.

  6. They really should drop Colins round and go straight into kitchen HQ.. As with last year the 3rd round drops quite abit. I’ll watch when Pete & Manu come back lol

    1. Completely agree. It’s really dull, I had friends over last night so I pre-recorded, but I honestly think reading Ben Pobjie’s recap on SMH will suffice…

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