(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. Seven News – Seven – 1.399
2. Junior MasterChef – Ten – 1.358
3. Bones – Seven – 1.283
4. Nine News Sunday – Nine – 1.224
5. Sunday Night – Seven – 1.191
6. The X Factor – Seven – 1.089
7. Modern Family – Ten – 1.061
8. Offspring – Ten – 0.952
9. Twenty/20 Australia vs Sri Lanka – Nine – 0.913
10. Castle (Repeat) – Seven – 0.889
(11. Rugby League: Four Nations – Nine – 0.873)
A consistently strong night for Ch9 with the return of the Cricket (Australia v Sri Lanka Twenty/20 from Perth) & the 4 Nations Rugby League (Australia vs England), but it wasn’t enough, with Ch7 winning the night. The ratings for the cricket are impressive given it’s late hour (and 1hr delay for broadcast in Brisbane). Junior MasterChef continues to prove the franchise works in spin-off mode, in spite of some of the inevitable annoyances of the contestant’s personalities & Anna Gare not really know what to do with herself. Great ratings for Sunday Night in the absence of 60 Minutes.
Is it surprising to see offspring doing so well?
It is to me. My rule of thumb with new shows is give them three episodes. I couldn’t get past 13 minutes. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Offspring doesn’t know what it wants to be so it’s trying to be a little bit of everything and it so isn’t working. If it were a horse, there’d be a screen, a shotgun, and a fainting racegoer already.