A quiet night on the schedule meant Channel Seven was able to ride Home and Away and a double helping of Dancing With the Stars to a narrow win over Nine for the night, but Network Ten managed to put up some good numbers.
The latest overnight preliminary OzTAM ratings pegged Home and Away as the highest non-news program of the night, pulling in 887,000 metro viewers for the night, with the figure going out to nearly 1.4 million accounting for regional viewers.
Meanwhile the double episode of Dancing With the Stars managed to almost break even with its stable mate, pulling in 886,000 metro viewers which is broadly in line with last week's numbers.
Elsewhere on the schedule, Nine's top rating non-news programs were David Attenborough's Life with 583,000 and Big Brother languishing at 519,000 viewers overall, although it continues to do well in younger-skewing demographics.
Ten's Recipe to Riches is trending downward with 523,000 metro viewers tuning in, down from its 575,000 debut and down from 545,000 last week.
But an NCIS double-act did well for the network and drove it to a 21.1% share for the night against Seven's 29.2% and Nine's 27.9%.
Meanwhile for the ABC, viewers still tuned into Kitchen Cabinet, although Bob Hawke proved to have more charisma than Mathias Cormann with the show suffering from a drop of more than 100,000 viewers week on week.
Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2014. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM. Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs.
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