'The Big Music Quiz' Strikes A Chord To Be Sunday's #3 Most-Watched TV Show

Nascent Seven Network game show The Big Music Quiz has exceeded critical expectations to end up Sunday night's third-most-watched program, trailing only the flagship news programs for channels Seven and Nine, respectively.

As TV Tonight shows, a mere 18,000 viewers across the five-city metro area for ratings results separated second-place-getter Nine News Sunday (1,229,000) from the Darren McMullen-fronted program, which turned out an impressive debutante audience of 1,211,000. Interestingly, in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, the show actually garnered a larger audience than Nine News, but trailed sufficiently in Sydney and Melbourne to not be able to outright claim the #2 spot.

Seven News was comfortably the night's most-watched program, chalking up 1,372,000 viewers, while the top five for the night were rounded out by The Block (Nine, 1,151,000) and 60 Minutes (Nine, 879,000). Seven's Sunday Night is just behind it, with 838,000 viewers.

ABC enjoyed a solid return for their programming bloc last night, picking up three spots inside the top-10 most-watched programs — they were seventh, eighth and tenth with ABC News (753,000), Vera (696,000) and Grand Designs New Zealand (653,000), reflecting how painfully poor a result Network Ten is dealing with, landing only one show — Australian Survivor, at #9 with a relatively paltry 662,000 viewers — inside the top half of the ratings ladder. 

Their only other entries come from a repeat of Modern Family (#13 with 388,000), an episode of Family Feud (#14 with 359,000) and their screening of The Maze Runner, which collapsed over the line at #18 with 286,000 viewers, one spot behind The Real Noah's Ark on SBS, which managed 291,000.