The marketing campaign for Resurrection paid off handsomely for Seven with a huge 1.91m viewers last night.
The US drama even topped My Kitchen Rules, also very strong at 1.72m viewers. Together they helped Seven to a big 10% lead over its nearest rival.
Seven network share was 38.7%, then Nine 28%, ABC 15.5% , TEN 13.0%, and SBS 4.8%.
Next for Seven was Seven News (1.08m / 1.05m), Home and Away (990,000), Parenthood (739,000 / 231,000 in preliminary figures incl, a news bulletin) and Million Dollar Minute (443,000).
The Block (1.34m) topped Nine then Nine News (1.23m / 1.1m), Big Bang (994,000 / 770,000), A Current Affair (910,000), Hot Seat (636,000), The Mystery of Flight 370 (479,000). 2 Broke Girls was 252,000.
ABC News (788,000) led ABC1 then 7:30 (625,000), New Tricks (619,000), Foreign Correspondent (488,000) and At the Movies (336,000).
TEN Eyewitness News (657,000) remains best for TEN followed by The Project (501,000 / 362,000), NCIS: LA (429,000), NCIS (419,000). Modern Family was 279,000 and The Biggest Loser was last in its slot, beaten by SBS at 268,000.
A repeat of The Queen’s Mother In Law (313,000) topped SBS ONE then Insight (197,000), SBS World News (158,000) and Dateline (121,000).
ABC2’s Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom was back on top of multichannels at 325,000.
The Morning Show: 167,000
Mornings: 102,000
Studio 10: 43,000
OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 25 March 2014