Debut Dancing With The Stars takes Seven to Sunday win

Tim Burrowes

July 6, 2009 12:41

Ten’s MasterChef was Sunday’s most watched program but a strong debut for the new series of Dancing With The Stars helped Seven to a ratings win for the day.

In an extremely competitive night, 6.30pm was a key battleground. Dancing With The Stars averaged nearly 1.6m viewers, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam. Ten’s Merlin, also starting at 6.30pm, rated 1.4m and Nine’s Random Acts of Kindness did 1.2m.

But MasterChef’s sausage-making challenge gave the show its best audience yet with almost 2m tuning in. However only 1.3m stuck around for the stars of Harry Potter on Rove afterwards.

Meanwhile, Nine’s Hugh Grant romcom Music And Lyrics tanked with only 800,000 viewers.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Tom Dodson 6 Jul 09

“Music and Lyrics tanked”

Wow thats such a suprise. It is a groundbreaking peice of cinematography that should be seen by all.

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