Big Bang Theory helps Nine across the line

Nine won Wednesday night’s ratings battle, although the race was closer without The Voice in the schedule.

The network a 23.2% per cent of the evening’s free to air viewing, just ahead of Seven’s 21.8% according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM.

Two episodes of The Big Bang Theory drew in the highest number of viewers for any entertainment show last night, with 1.288m tuning into the first new episode of the show, and another 1.24m for the second episode at 8pm.

New American adventure drama Arrow delivered  1.107m viewers for Nine, while Seven had 1.126m viewers for The Force, Behind the Line.