Seven and Ten unveil new comedies, but ABC’s Q&A proves more popular on Thursday night’s TV

The premiere of Ten’s How to Stay Married and Seven’s Orange is the New Brown both pulled more than 400,000 viewers, but no non-news program was more popular than ABC’s Q&A.

From 9pm, Ten’s new show with Peter Helliar and Lisa McCune, How to Stay Married, premiered with 508,000 metro viewers. It had a higher audience than Seven’s new comedy sketch, Orange is the New Brown, which premiered with 422,000 metro viewers at 8:30pm.

The programs, which pulled national audiences of 723,000 and 677,000 respectively, received mixed reviews on Twitter.