The Following wins prime time crime night

Tim Burrowes

April 11, 2013 9:41

Wednesday night’s three-way criminology battle saw Nine finish with its nose in front as its Kevin Bacon serial killer drama The Following rated 816,000 metro viewers, just ahead of Seven’s Criminal Minds (778,000).

Ten’s Mr & Mrs Murder averaged 463,000 viewers according to overnight preliminary ratings from OzTAM.

Earlier in the night, the two-way battle between The Voice and My Kitchen Rules again went the way of the singing show. Nine’s The Voice averaged 1.996m metro viewers compared to MKR’s 1.405m, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM.

Ten’s Modern Family was less competitive, rating 306,000.

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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.

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2 COMMENTS

Harry 11 Apr 13

Wednesday night has proved to be an interesting lesson for Ten and its bright spark ideas for Shaun Micallef. Mr & Mrs Murder, neither a well written drama nor a comedy gets 100,000 less viewers than Micallef’s Mad as Hell on ABC which was very good last night, funny and well written. Lesson to Ten – play to a performer’s strengths and not weaknesses. Find another vehicle for him and develop it properly with a non broadcast pilot. Investing in content development will be the only way for Ten to survive. Is the management up to it?

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Chris 11 Apr 13

Surely mr and mrs Mulder is meant to be taking the mickey. The very title proves that. Shaun Mcalief wrong spelling is no actor.

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