Eddie McGuire’s Hot Seat sneaks into the top 15

Tim Burrowes

July 2, 2010 9:15

Eddie McGuire game show Hot Seat made a rare visit to the most watched 15 shows for the day on Thursday thanks in part to split national schedules from the networks.

Nine’s Hot Seat – a stripped back version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – attracted an audience of 728,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam. This was just ahead of 5.30pm rival show Deal Or No Deal on Seven, which pulled in 703,000.

Only seven shows pulled in average audiences of more than a million on Thursday night.

Top of the heap was Ten’s Masterchef, with nearly 1.8m 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.