Ratings: 1.183m for Hamish & Andy as George Negus says goodbye to SBS with 256,000

Hamish & Andy’s end of year special Reministmas pulled in 1.183m viewers for Ten on Sunday while Seven’s The X Factor delivered a healthy 1.374m.

Nine had a more disappointing evening with the Twenty20 cricket averaging 887,000 and parking rangers doco The Enforcers clocking up 573,000 across Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide – 14th, eighth and eighth respectively – according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam. Nine finished behind Ten, with less than 20% share.

Meanwhile, George Negus bowed out with his last Dateline for SBS before his new role at Ten with an average audience of 256,000.  

The top rating show on a secondary channel was The Big Bang Theory on Go – which beat SBS1 – delivering about a third of a million viewers for each episode.

Sunday’s top 15 shows:

1. Seven News Seven 1.383
2. The X Factor Seven 1.374
3. Sunday Night Seven 1.206
4. Hamish and Andy’s Reministmas Special Ten 1.183
5. Nine News Nine 1.115
6. Modern Family – Episode 2 Ten 1.009
7. Bones Seven 0.936
8. Offspring – Episode 1 Ten 0.929
9. Cricket: Twenty/20 Nine 0.887
10. ABC News ABC 0.868
11. Offspring – Episode 2 Ten 0.860
12. Last Chance to See ABC 0.783
13. Modern Family – Episode 2 Ten 0.769
14. The Enforcers Nine 0.573
15. Ten News Ten 0.559

Sunday’s channel share:

• Seven: 28.1%
• Ten: 20.3%
• Nine: 19.6%
• ABC1: 11.4%
• GO!: 5.1%
• SBS1: 4.9%
• 7mate: 2.9%
• 7TWO: 2.1%
• Gem: 1.9%
• SBS2: 1.6%
• ABC2: 0.7%
• One: 0.5%
• ABC3: 0.4%
• ABC News 24: 0.4%