The Blacklist breaks 1m for Seven

Channel Seven’s audience grew to just over 1m for James Spader’s The Blacklist making it the most watched entertainment program of the night, as Ten’s Homeland was fourth in its timeslot despite a lift on last week’s ratings.

The Blacklist was also second in the key ad demo of people 25-54, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.

However Nine held onto the largest audience in 25-54s with repeat episodes of The Big Bang Theory from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Nine’s new episode of 2 Broke Girls was second in the 8.30pm timeslot after The Blacklist, while Rick Stein’s India had 514,000 viewers on ABC1.