Ashes and Block twist pull in big audiences for Nine

Tim Burrowes

July 15, 2013 9:28

The Nine Network had two of the top three rating programs on Sunday night with Nine getting the biggest share and Gem having another strong night thanks to the cricket.

The Block was by far the biggest show of the night, delivering a metro audience of 1.758m for Nine. Contestants on the show were surprised with a twist last night, just as they thought they had come to the end of their “renovation hell” they learned it would continue for another fortnight.

The tight finish on the final day of the first Ashes test was also a ratings draw, with 679,000 tuning in on Gem for the first session and 558,000 tuning in for the second during which England beat Australia by just 14 runs. The game also brought 457,00 and 314,000 viewers to Fox Sports 2.

Seven had several of the top-rated shows of the night with Seven News drawing 1.471m viewers, while A Place to Call Home, Sunday Night, Border Security and the Force Behind the Line all performed strongly.

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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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Noelene 15 Jul 13

Weekend Today is so forced. I watched the guys play frisbee the other day(Today not weekend today0 and it was so unnatural. Dicko and the guy who won the logie(cant even remember his name) could not throw a firsbee to save their lives.

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