Dance and Biggest Loser take Ten to a big ratings night

Tim Burrowes

April 27, 2009 11:30

Ten’s final night of So You Think You Can Dance and a strong episode of the Biggest Loser delivered the network a thumping TV ratings win last night.

Ten pulled in a 30.1% ratings share for Sunday, one of its best results of the year so far. According to the preliminary Oztam TV ratings Seven took 26.6%, Nine took 25.6%, ABC 13.4% and SBS 4.3%.

Last night’s top ten TV shows:

Seven News – Seven 1.8m
Nine News – Nine 1.5m
The Biggest Loser – Ten 1.5m
So You Think You Can Dance Winner – Ten 1.4m
The Force – Seven 1.4m
60 Minutes – Nine 1.4m
So You Think You Can Dance – Ten 1.3m
Border Security USA – Seven 1.3m
Sunday Night – Seven 1.2m
Bones 8:30pm – Seven 1.1m

Meanwhile, Ten’s digital channel One’s live coverage of the Bahrain Grand Prix delivered an average audience of 127,000 with a perak audience of 220,000.

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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.