Hamish & Andy win their slot while X Factor wins the night

Tim Burrowes

September 16, 2011 9:32

Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year won its timeslot for Nine and raised its numbers by about 90,000 on last week, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

The show – which aired at 8.30pm – rated 822,000, well up on last week’s 733,000.

However, the continued winner was Seven’s The X Factor which topped the ratings for a sluggish Thursday night with 1.284m.

However, the audience quickly drifted away for Seven, with Drug Bust at 8.30pm rating only 675,000.

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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.

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3 COMMENTS

davo 16 Sep 11

Hamish and Andy-of course it won its timeslot . “However, the audience quickly drifted away for Seven, with Drug Bust at 8.30pm rating only 675,000.”
Speaks for itself. Surely Nine is not going to bring back the show next year and will ask for a refund from those two. nothing Nine has done this year has worked. they are limping along with no local shows and no rating hits. viewers have even tired of Underbelly?

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Tom 16 Sep 11

@davo – Uhhmmm So The Block was a dud?

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Nick 17 Sep 11

@davo – I think you’d find that Underbelly Razor had the highest program launch since Oz Tam launched, and is continuing to pull in mass audiences……..

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