Nerds rule...but they don't win

James McGrath
By James McGrath | 14 October 2014
 
The Big Bang Theory

Last night was the first glimpse of a schedule without The Block ruling over all, but while Nine replaced rennovation-nerds with regular nerds and came up with the trump cards, Seven won the night.

A Big Bang Theory double managed to pull in 1.19 million viewers for a repeat, and a new episode shown directly after it attracted 1.35 million viewers.

However sandwiched between those was the X Factor's live results show, which brought in 1.3 million for the night.

While The X Factor managed to take number two overall for the night, it was beaten by both the Big Bang shows in the 16-39, 18-49, and 25-54 demographics.

Elsewhere, Seven's Blacklist is starting to trend down in the schedule, pulling in 915,000 viewers down from 945,000 last week and 1.05 million viewers on premiere.

Also trending downward is Ten's social-first show Party Tricks, which was out-rated by Gold Coast Cops. The political drama had 474,000 capital city viewers for the night after premiering with 710,000 viewers.

Overall the X Factor helped deliver Seven a win on the night, with the network taking a 32.1% share over Nine, which pulled in 26.8%.

Meanwhile the ABC outrated Network Ten again with current affairs programs such as Four Corners, Australian Story and Mediawatch rating in the top 20, delivering the national broadcaster a 21.1% share for the night over Ten's 16.3%.

However, on a consolidated basis Ten managed a 20.8% share over the ABC's 17%.

Preliminary overnight figures from OzTAM

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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