Fed: Seven adds Wednesday night to its ratings dominance

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2007
Fed: Seven adds Wednesday night to its ratings dominance

By Michael Gadd, National Entertainment Writer

SYDNEY, Feb 15 AAP - Network Seven chalked up Wednesday as another evening of primetime
dominance, filling the top five slots for last night's most-watched programs.

Seven has now won the first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of the official TV
ratings season, losing only Sunday to the Nine Network's broadcast of the cricket.

This Sunday will be the toughest test yet as Nine returns its current affairs flagship
60 Minutes to the 7.30pm slot against Seven's American hit Ugly Betty.

But last night, in what was weak figures overall with no show rating more than 1.5
million viewers, Seven reigned supreme.

The new series of Border Security was watched by 1.45 million viewers and Today Tonight's
continued Jodi Power-Mercedes Corby saga drew an audience of 1.4 million, to finish the
night first and second, respectively. However, it was Today Tonight's lowest audience
of the week.

While the sharp supernatural drama Heroes finished the night third, its 1.3 million
viewers were down on last week's 1.6 million. Its January 31 launch attracted 2.1 million
viewers.

Network Ten's House broke Seven's run finishing as the night's sixth most popular program,
although it dropped from 1.6 million last week to 1.23 million.

Seven's SCU: Serious Crash Unit and Seven News rounded out the top five.

Nine joined the party with McLeod's Daughters (1.15 million) in seventh spot, ahead
of A Current Affair with 1.1 million viewers.

The series return of Spicks and Specks, with Adam Hills, nudged one million viewers for the ABC.

Ten's The Biggest Loser fell below the one million milestone once again, but the network
will be more concerned with its game show The Con Test, which has slipped from around
one million viewers to an almost axe-worthy 692,000.

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