Strong debut for Denton’s Randling while Sacha Baron Cohen helps Today to breakfast win

Tim Burrowes

May 3, 2012 9:08

Andrew Denton’s TV return Randling debuted with an average metro audience of 859,000 on ABC1 last night, beating Nine’s The Apprentice and Ten’s Offspring.

However, Revenge dominated the night for Seven with an average audience of 1.33m, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam.

The word game-based Randling is produced by Denton’s Zapruder’s Other Films and created by Denton and Jon Casimir, who also created The Gruen Transfer together.

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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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4 COMMENTS

Darcey 3 May 12

Can anyone tell me why Laid got a second season?

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JJ 3 May 12

That Sacha Baron Cohen interview is a classic – was that broadcast live? OMG!

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Pope 3 May 12

‘Andrew Denton’s TV return Randling debuted with an average metro audience of 859,000 on ABC1 last night, beating Nine’s The Apprentice and Ten’s Offspring. ‘ – there’s hope for us all yet.

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Anonymous 3 May 12

its quite obvious that nines ratings win is driven by the voice. when the voice is not on, nine loses the night. nine may have killed its own shows as they have celebrity apprentice, block and voice all competing in the same timeslot and they cannot have them on the same nights.apprentice is not doing well at all and has charlotte dawson been made to act the “bit–“?

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