October 15, 2007 - 1:05PM
Even though retired from cricket and without a mobile
phone, Shane Warne's guest spot on last night's series
final of Kath and Kim was a huge hit - one of the
year's top rating shows.

Over his career the world class bowler became noted as
much for the thumb he used to send text messages as
the skill of his spin fingers.

But he was happy to send himself up as a Shane Warne
impersonator in the company of Australia's favourite
TV comedy pairing played by Jane Turner and Gina Riley
on the Seven Network.

Regardless of his high-profile indiscretions, 2.3
million viewers tuned in at 7.30pm for their final
dose of Kath and Kim series four.

It was by far the most watched program last night with
the viewer flow on giving Seven's My Name Is Earl an
average of 1.57 million viewers.

Despite John Howard finally naming a date for the next
federal election yesterday, commercial news broadcasts
performed below average.

Usually Sunday's news bulletins are among the week's
biggest raters, both Seven and Nine's bulletins only
managed to attract about 1.3 million viewers.

Kath and Kim and My Name Is Earl tipped the balance in
Seven's favour for a two percentage point primetime
win ahead of Nine, which got good value from its
Sunday movie that averaged 1.2 million viewers.

Seven's numbers could have been more impressive were
it not for Perth's marathon Telethon pushing Kath and
Kim back to 9pm.

Nine's new game show The Singing Bee didn't attract
many back to its hive on its second outing, with the
show's audience dropping to just over one million
viewers, not an attractive figure at 6.30pm.

From next week, Seven will be running its own family
fun game show in the same timeslot with National Bingo
Night hosted by Tim Campbell.

AAP


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