More than 1m witness transformation of geeks to gorgeous

Beauty and the Geek’s makeover episode soared to the top of the ratings last night with more than 1m viewers.

The show averaged 1.089m metro viewers, marking its highest numbers since the series launched four weeks ago.

Meanwhile the second episode of Redfern Now had 529,000 viewers on ABC1, a slight drop on last week’s debut.

And Ten’s Law and Order: SVU was second in its timeslot and the strongest performer for the network with an average of 593,000 metro viewers, according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight ratings.