(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. Seven News Saturday – Seven – 1.183
2. Nine News Saturday – Nine – 0.891
3. ABC News Saturday – ABC1 – 0.851
4. Australia’s Funniest Home Videos (Summer rpt) – Nine – 0.674
5. Bed Of Roses – ABC1 – 0.673
6. Spooks – ABC1 – 0.639
7. No Leave, No Life – Seven – 0.618
8. Back To The Future – Ten – 0.570
9. Ten News At Five Saturday – Ten – 0.559
10. Anne Of Green Gables: The Sequel – Seven – 0.507
11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (rpt) – Nine – 0.473
12. The Celebrity Singing Bee – Nine- 0.465
13. Best Of Gardening Australia – ABC1 – 0.432
14. Ten Sports Tonight Saturday – Ten – 0.378
15. Find My Family (Summer rpt) – 0.369
Weekend Sunrise (Saturday) – Seven – 0.310
Weekend Today (Saturday) – Nine – 0.282
AFI Awards 2010 – Nine – 0.270
The ABC’s Saturday night line up of Bed Of Roses and Spooks shows the key demo generally watching TV at this time of year. Channel 7’s No Leave, No Life performed well for the night & offered some new programming on largely a night of repeat movies (but excellent work that Back To The Future beat Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel – vindication!). Channel 9 had an up and down night with The Celebrity Singing Bee & CSI doing OK – at least better than AFI Awards 2010. Awards shows take note – pls stop treating us like idiots.