Network Ten's fast-tracked and award-winning US drama Homeland saw a small bump in the ratings last night but is still far short of its first season one million average.
Homeland was watched by 712,000 metro viewers last night, up from 633,000 the previous week, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam.
Ten hoped it would be able to stymie the flow of audiences to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer networks with its fast-tracking strategy for its headline imported programs. However, programs such as Homeland can be more than two weeks behind the US broadcast, often too long for those impatient for the next instalment. Homeland debuted to 1.22 million in its first season and averaged around a million viewers.
Popular comedy Modern Family also saw a boost to its numbers and attracted 908,000 viewers, up from 850,000 last week. Similarly, The New Normal was also up to 552,000 from the previous week's 488,000.
On Seven, Air Ways and Border Security were watched by 1.06 million and 1.05 million viewers respectively. Bones pulled in 792,000 viewers.
Nine's House Husbands attracted 944,000 viewers while Big Brother had 911,000 people tuned in.
Other programs in the top 20 were Sunday Night (Seven), 60 Minutes (Nine), Seven News, Nine News, David Attenborough: Kingdom of Plants (ABC), The Making of Kingdom of Plants (ABC), ABC News, Jack Irish: Black Tide (ABC), The Mentalist (Nine), V8 Supercars (Seven), Merlin (Ten) and Ten News.
Across the main channels, Seven marginally won the day with 22.4% of audience share, followed by Nine with 21.6%, the ABC with 15.0%, Ten with 12.5% and SBS with 3.8%.
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