Seven launches A Place to Call Home to 865,000 as Nine wins with 1.89m for The Voice

Audiences showed their love for a good sing song this weekend with 1.89m watching The Voice on Sunday after SBS won the highest recorded audience in Australia for the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.

The Voice helped Nine win 1.552m metro viewers for 60 Minutes, which followed at 8pm. The show featured Liz Hayes’ interview with financial trader Jordan Belfort, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, who walked out when he did not like her line of questioning. The Voice and 60 Minutes were also the top two shows in people 25-54, followed by House Rules.

Meanwhile Seven had 1.058m for House Rules from 6.30pm, up against The Voice, and 954,000 for Sunday Night, from 7.40pm, featuring the last filmed interview with Charlotte Dawson, who died in February.

Seven then launched the second series of A Place to Call Home, created by Bevan Lee, to 865,000 at 8.40pm, second in its timeslot after 60 Minutes and The Mentalist which had 902,000 on Nine. The first series had launched to 1.768m in May 2013.