Television

24 out of 26 for Seven   Author: eNews staff and agencies | Aug 27, 2007, 09:25

Yet another win to the Seven Network, making it 24 out of 26 weeks excluding Easter, or 26 of 28 weeks, including Easter.

It was a good way for Seven to demonstrate its superiority over Nine in the same week as it revealed that it was vastly more profitable than the former Number 1 network.

Seven won with a share of 28.8% (27.8% for the previous week) from Nine with 26.5% (27.1%), Ten with 23.2% (23.3%), the ABC with 16.3% (16.6%) and SBS on 5.3% (5.2%).

Seven won Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Nine won Brisbane. Once again Ten's share in Sydney and Brisbane, 20.9%, was under the national average for the week of 23.2%.

Seven's first ep of Kath & Kim was the most watched program last week with 2.25 million people, ahead of Ten's Thank God You're Here which also topped two million viewers.

That's the first time this year in ratings that two programs have topped the two million viewer mark.

Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights. Nine won Thursday night, Ten won Wednesday and Saturday nights.

Ten's broadcast of the Swans Collingwood game gave the network a surprise win on Saturday night. The game averaged 1.072 million viewers nationally, with 437,000 watching in Melbourne.

More people watched the Friday night game on Seven in Melbourne between St Kilda and West Coast with 443,000 tuning in. That game however averaged 951,000 nationally but helped Seven win the night convincingly, as did a very solid win for Seven News. Today Tonight won Friday.

Seven News and Today Tonight won the week again.

At the moment Nine has no chance of winning because it is underperforming except on Thursdays and on most Saturdays. its Sunday night efforts have gone cold and Kath and Kim will make sure of that.

This week Ten runs Idol from last night to Thursday night (when its half an hour at 7.30 pm before the second series of the US So You Think You Can Dance starts. Ten has the local version of that and it will now be produced by Fremantlemedia and not Southern Star.

The Idol week means Thank God You're here will not be seen but will be back next week: that pushes it a week closer towards the end of ratings.

Tonight seven debuts its long awaited City Homicide at 8.30 pm in a special two hour episode. the second ep next week is said to be better.

Seven has replaced Surf patrol with The Force at 8 pm after Border security at 7.30 pm. That will improve

The Force's figures which took a battering on Wednesday nights at 8.30 for a couple of weeks as Seven had to shore up its defences against House and Thank God You're Here on Ten; Spicks and Specks on the ABC and Cold Case on Nine.

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