Seven wins the night, led by Today Tonight

Tim Burrowes

February 5, 2009 10:18

Seven won last night’s prime time battle, with Today Tonight the top-rating show with an audience of nearly 1.5m.

The network grabbed the top four slots, with Today Tonight followed by Seven News, a credible performance for Australia’s Got Talent and then Criminal Minds.

Meanwhile Ten will be happy enough with the performance of House, which came in fifth with a 1.2m audience, but also performed well in the 16-39 demographic, grabbing 55% of the commercial metro audience.

Nine’s only top ten show was Nine News, which came in seventh. Nine’s feel-good Domestic Blitz struggled in at 11th, with an audience of just 971,000.

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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.