Tuesday TV audience picks and sticks with Ten

Tim Burrowes

June 3, 2009 11:32

Ten’s combination of Talkin Bout Your Generation and MasterChef was too strong for its rivals last night, delivering the TV network one of its biggest ratings shares of the year to date.

Programming momentum appeared to be the key to Tuesday’s schedule on Ten, with MasterChef pulling in a 1.3m audience, which Talking Bout Your Generation built into more than 1.6m viewers, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam. Back-to-back episodes of US import NCIS held on to much of that audience, with virtually all of the viewers staying around for the 8.30pm episode, and 1.3m for the NCIS that followed.

Meanwhile Nine’s disappointing run with Home Made continued, with the home makeover show pulling in less than 950,000 viewers.

Among Seven’s best performers of the night was Today Tonight, which featured the Max Markson-orchestrated stunt of “Spiderman” Alain Roberts’ unauthorised scaling a building in Sydney’s CBD.

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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.