TEN is riding high after last night's series return of Bondi Rescue attracted a peak audience of 1.87 million.
Over the half-hour, the popular surf life saving show posted an average audience of 1.47 million - 484,000 more than last year's debut - making it the highest rated episode since the show began in 2006.
Bondi Rescue comfortably won its timeslot in all major demographics, including the all important 18-49 bracket where the show picked up over 50 per cent of the commercial audience.
TEN's chief programming officer, David Mott, said: "Bondi Rescue is compulsive viewing as these numbers testify. It has all the components for a hit TV show: great drama, great characters and is set on one of the best stages in the world."
Meanwhile, a 37.1% share helped TEN to the No.1 spot Tuesday evening.
The Biggest Loser continued to rate well winning its timeslot in all major demographics with 1.16m viewers.
Similarly, encore performances of NCIS won its slot in all major demographics pulling 1.35m viewers.
In 18-49, the top three programs of the night belonged to TEN with Bondi Rescue at No.1, followed by NCIS and The Biggest Loser.
^ Bondi Rescue did really well this week, I hope it can keep those figures although I doubt it against It Takes Two next week (it should still woop Nine's Monster House though).
Now for yesterday's ratings... TOTAL PEOPLE SHARES FOR WEDNESDAY 6PM - MIDNIGHT
THE RATINGS RACE: Tells us what you thought of The Chopping Block
Ten's talent quest we must abbreviate to SYTYCDA is holding its audience comfortably, while Nine's reworking of My Restaurant Rules could manage only 718,000 in the mainland capitals -- nearly 300,000 fewer than the fan base of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Clearly Camilla Rowntree and Matt Moran will need to add more expletives to their dialogue.
Nine can't afford a single misstep this year. How long before The Chopping Block becomes a prophetic name?
What Australia watched, Wednesday Description Total Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth 1 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AUSTRALIA - AUDITION 3 Ten 1,628,000 439,000 487,000 329,000 176,000 197,000 2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,483,000 413,000 400,000 271,000 187,000 213,000 3 HOME AND AWAY Seven 1,251,000 390,000 301,000 242,000 144,000 174,000 4 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,238,000 351,000 332,000 194,000 161,000 201,000 5 ABC NEWS ABC 1,193,000 360,000 355,000 230,000 108,000 140,000 6 A TOUCH OF FROST (R) Seven 1,124,000 311,000 339,000 185,000 139,000 150,000 7 NINE NEWS Nine 1,117,000 283,000 335,000 282,000 124,000 93,000 8 THE BIGGEST LOSER (AUS) Ten 1,093,000 263,000 394,000 185,000 130,000 122,000 9 SPICKS AND SPECKS ABC 1,022,000 300,000 290,000 194,000 115,000 122,000 10 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Seven 1,006,000 290,000 252,000 230,000 100,000 134,000 11 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 995,000 262,000 310,000 248,000 105,000 70,000 12 LITTLE BRITAIN ABROAD ABC 958,000 281,000 289,000 171,000 100,000 118,000 18 BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY RPT Ten 738,000 214,000 266,000 109,000 60,000 89,000 19 THE NEW INVENTORS ABC 737,000 191,000 210,000 163,000 81,000 92,000 20 THE CHOPPING BLOCK Nine 718,000 194,000 248,000 110,000 89,000 77,000 24 NIGELLA FEASTS ABC 532,000 149,000 165,000 87,000 65,000 66,000 (OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Source: SMH Blogs
TEN has won every night this week in 18-49's and are still No.1 over the week so far in total people (although I suspect that their line-up post 8.30 tonight may bomb). SYTYCDA is doing great guns and is really going to help their first half, which I think is deserved, its a great show.
Nine had a bad night, The Chopping Block not having a great start - nothing post 7.30 reaching 1mil.
The oldies continue to watch Seven on a Wednesday and it works for them in total viewers.
Looks like Dance is holding it's own - great numbers for an audition round. I can remember the first season of Idol dipping to around 1 million during the auditions, and then bounced up to 2 million for the finals - so who knows what Dance will do in the finals. It's a great show though.
Nine would be dissappointed with The Chopping Block - stiff competition in a similiar genre. Let's see what it does next week against Ten's new sitcoms.
Ten has had a 28ish share for four nights in a row now - surely their best start to the year.. ever.
RATINGS HIGHLIGHTS / WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2008 Network Ten
So You Think You Can Dance Australia was again the night's top performer peaking at 1.94m viewers and averaging 1.64m over its timeslot. The show won its slot in all major demographics including the all important 18-49 bracket where it picked up 59.0% of the comm audience
TEN won the night in 18-49 with a 48.4% share
Neighbours won timeslot in 18-49 against A Current Affair and Today Tonight
The Biggest Loser dominated timeslot in 18-49 with a 40.9% share; consistently pulls over 1m viewers
TEN's movie, Bridget Jones's Diary, outshone the competition in timeslot in 18-49 (45.3% share)
Five TEN shows make the 18-49 top ten including Dance Australia at No.1, The Biggest Loser at No.2
Nine's new reality TV show, The Chopping Block, could well be on its way to the "chopping block" as it languished in its timeslot drawing a mere 718,000 viewers
Wow, I thought the Chopping Block would have done a whole lot better than that. I imagine it will dip even further with RSPCA Animal Rescue and The Real Sea Change returning in that timeslot. Wednesdays seem to have become 7's "oldie" night but it performed well over the non ratings period. SYTYCD is doing fantastic and it is actually a good quality show......far better than Idol.
Apparently the latest season of Lost is getting rave reviews in the US. One critic claiming it had got its mojo back. Whether it lost it in the first place is another thread.
Would you believe I have never watched a single episode of it...
I saw glimpses of Saving Kids and liked his performance as host too. The concept of the show is so overdone with too many similar shows that its poor ratings aren't a surprise.
Yeah I watched saving kids, it was good, Damien Leith was good, omigosh @ them pulling back her whole face :O Friends did better at 7 Haha TBL bombed but, even I skipped that episode it looked boring ;p
Saving Kids did do pretty poor, but I expect it to pick up over a few weeks (it did pretty much the same figures as Saving Babies last year).
Paula, TBL didn't do that badly actually, it is a Thursday night after all. It still beat Nine in the slot, was less than 200K behind Seven, and won in 18-49's.
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