{"id":2562,"date":"2012-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/2012\/09\/24\/ratings-roundup-australia\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:00:00","slug":"ratings-roundup-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/ratings-roundup-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Roundup: Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">PREMIUM:&nbsp;Light entertainment airing on Seven led the prime-time ratings in Australia last week, with <em>The X Factor <\/em>pulling in the biggest audience, excluding news and current-affairs programming.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Market leader Seven Network&rsquo;s version of the FremantleMedia format topped the ratings on Monday and Tuesday, pulling 1.588 million and 1.562 million viewers, respectively, in the five mainland metropolitan markets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Seven topped the ratings again on Wednesday with magic show <em>Cosentino: The Grand Illusionist<\/em>. The program, starring Paul Cosentino, who was runner-up in the 2011 <em>Australia&rsquo;s Got Talent<\/em>, drew 1.285 million viewers, according to OzTAM. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Not counting news or current-affairs programming, <em>Big Brother <\/em>on Nine Network was the leader on Thursday with 863,000 viewers, and the Australian Football League led Friday for Seven with 1.061 million, while Rugby League on Nine drew 823,000. On Saturday, they switched places with Rugby League number two overall at 1.043 million, followed by AFL with 1.014 million.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The top scripted program of the week was Nine&rsquo;s comedy-drama series <em>House Husbands <\/em>on Sunday, which ranked fifth for the day with 1.226 million viewers. Number two of the week was Seven&rsquo;s drama series <em>Winners and Losers<\/em> on Tuesday with 1.087 million. Number three was Ireland-U.K. sitcom <em>Mrs Brown&rsquo;s Boys<\/em> on Sunday with 1.042 million, the top audience for a scripted import.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Sunday (September 23), in the battle of flagship current-affairs shows, Seven&rsquo;s <em>Sunday Night<\/em> was the winner with 1.630 million (biggest audience of any show during the week), while Nine&#8217;s <em>60 Minutes <\/em>(based on the American model) pulled 1.390 million. Seven and Nine consistently run one-two in the ratings, with market shares over 30 percent, far ahead of the other broadcast networks. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Monday Nine&rsquo;s crime series <em>Underbelly<\/em> (1.013 million) was the top scripted show and U.S. sitcom <em>Modern Family<\/em> (591,000) on Network Ten was the top scripted import.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Tuesday, behind <em>Winners and Losers<\/em>, the top scripted import was U.S. sitcom <em>The Big Bang Theory <\/em>on Nine (750,000).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Number one among scripted shows Wednesday was long-running soap <em>Home and Away <\/em>on Seven (964,000), with U.S. police series&nbsp;<em>Criminal Minds <\/em>on Nine leading the scripted imports (953,000). The same two shows led scripted programming on Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">On Friday, the top scripted show was imported crime series <em>Scott and Bailey<\/em> from the U.K. on public channel ABC1 with 638,000 viewers (number 11 for the day).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">BBC&rsquo;s <em>Doctor Who<\/em> on ABC1 was the top scripted television show on Saturday (556,000 at number nine), while U.S. feature <em>Con Air <\/em>drew 568,000 viewers for Seven (number eight of the day).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIUM:&nbsp;Light entertainment airing on Seven led the prime-time ratings in Australia last week, with The X Factor pulling in the biggest audience, excluding news and current-affairs programming.&nbsp; Market leader Seven Network&rsquo;s version of the FremantleMedia format topped the ratings on Monday and Tuesday, pulling 1.588 million and 1.562 million viewers, respectively, in the five mainland &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings Roundup: Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ratings Roundup: Australia . 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