Ten scores win with Biggest Loser finale

NETWORK Ten’s The Biggest Loser finished its eight season with an audience of 1.248 million viewers in what's been a lean year for Ten.

Robyn and Katie Dyke from Tasmania are the Biggest Loser winners for 2013.

NETWORK TenÂ’s The Biggest Loser finished its eight season with an audience of 1.248 million viewers.

While the figure for the winner’s announcement (and 1.108 million for the full episode) is down on previous incarnations - for instance the 2011 edition, The Biggest Loser: Families concluded with an audience of 1.68 million viewers - it was a positive in a lean year for Ten.

The program did well on a competitive night in which The Block Sky High managed 1.244 million for Nine and House Rules continued its emergence with 908,000 viewers on Seven.

The reality casualty of the night was Nine’s Celebrity Apprentice, which dropped another 87,000 metro viewers week-on-week for its boardroom challenge and 91,000 down for its challenge. It has dropped viewers on each of its past four Tuesday nights.

Nine News won the night with 1.328 million viewers, ahead of Seven News’ 1.276 million, with Nine winning by 77,000 in Sydney and 135,000 in Melbourne.

Seven won the night in all people with a 21.5 per cent share ahead of Nine’s 20.3 per cent and Ten’s 16.1 per cent.

ABC1’s special Q&A with Bill Gates earned 669,000 viewers, the show’s best result since April 1, albeit not on a Monday night.

OZTAM OVERNIGHT RANKINGS, MAY 28
1 NINE NEWS Nine 1,328,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,276,000
3 THE BIGGEST LOSER NEXT GEN - THE WINNER ANNOUNCED Ten 1,248,000
4 THE BLOCK SKY HIGH Nine 1,244,000
5 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,141,000
6 THE BIGGEST LOSER NEXT GEN - FINALE NIGHT Ten 1,108,000
7 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 1,099,000
8 PACKED TO THE RAFTERS Seven 1,048,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Seven 939,000
10 ABC NEWS ABC 938,000
11 HOUSE RULES Seven 908,000
12 HOT SEAT Nine 774,000
13 7.30 ABC 734,000
14 THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE CHALLENGE Nine 725,000
15 TEN NEWS AT FIVE Ten 681,000
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