7PM Project birthday show delivers strong ratings

Tim Burrowes

July 21, 2010 9:43

The first anniversary edition of Ten’s 7PM Project pulled in average of 1.2m viewers on Tuesday night, the show’s best result apart from its 1.3m launch audience.

Meanwhile, Masterchef was the top rating show of the night with a massive 2.4m audience, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam. Seven’s Packed To The Rafters delivered a strong 1.9m but gameshow Minute To Win It faded to 869,000.

The only entertainment show for Nine that rated more than a million on Tuesday was Top Gear with 1.039m viewers.

Ten currently leads the week with a share of 27.7% to Seven’s 23.9% and Nine’s 21.2%.

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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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2 COMMENTS

Lola 21 Jul 10

Do you think 7pm Project’s win is due to the woeful Home and Away storylines of late? I ditched Neighbours and am ready to walk away from Home and Away too.

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FPP 21 Jul 10

At the Comedy Festival this year during a panel discussion on TV comedy, Charlie Pickering was pleading (in a jokey way) for people to watch the 7pm Project. Good to see that it is finally drawing a good audience (and that a TV network actually stuck with something for a change, instead of immediately replacing it with repeats of The Nanny)

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