There was never a doubt that The X Factor Australia (Final 2nd – 1,881,000; Winner 1st – 1,921,000) wasn’t going to take the night by a mile, though surprising it didn’t pop over two million viewers. The launch of Grimm (8th – 937,000) benefits from the sizeable lead in, and while it lost half the audience given it as a modern-day fantasy drama it performed solidly ahead of it’s reschedule for next week. A casualty for the night was Croker Island Exodus (21st – 538,000) – more quality drama gone begging against popular reality TV.
Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Nine News – Ch9
6:30pm: Today Tonight – Ch7
7:00pm: ABC News – ABC1
7:30pm: The X Factor Australia (1st hour) – Ch7
8:30pm: The X Factor Australia (2nd hour) – Ch7
9:30pm: The X Factor Australia Winner Announced/Grimm – Ch7
Channel 7 won the night (33%), followed by Channel 9 (16.8%), Channel 10 (12.5%) & ABC1 (12.3%).