HD Ratings: New Zoo Show a Shoo-In

Tuesday’s premiere of Inside Taronga Zoo continued TVNZ 1’s winning streak, topping the ratings in all the core commercial demographics.

It was one of three Australian shows to go head-to-head at 7.30, the others being TVNZ 2’s MasterChef Australia and Three’s Big Brother.

Inside Taronga Zoo averaged 8.9% of TVNZ 1’s 25-54 demo, making it the second most popular programme of the night after 1 News at Six.

The trend was the same in the other key demos, which left Zoo’s Oz rivals struggling for the leftovers. Even so, MasterChef averaged 5.4% of 25-54s and Big Brother, 3.6% (the former led the latter in all the major demos as well as 5+).

Zoo lead-out The Dog Show rated higher than last week’s premiere to win the 8.30 hour in the 5+, 25-54 and 18-49 demos.

Three’s NCIS: Los Angeles was more popular with 18-39s and TVNZ 2’s MKR: The Rivals with household shoppers with kids.

But TVNZ 1 dominated the 9.30 hour with 20/20 winning in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos, and seesawing in the others.

Prime’s premiere of The ABC Murders was as disastrous as its stripping of Years and Years over the previous two weeks, averaging only 0.2% of the channel’s 25-54 target.

TVNZ 1 won the night with easily the biggest shares of all the key demos while TVNZ 2 was well ahead of Three except in the keenly contested 18-49 race.

Here are Tuesday’s 20 most-watched primetime programmes on the free-to-air HD channels (excluding +1 and in order of their 5+ rating and audience share):