The 2010 Toy Show attracted an average of 1.4 million viewers, the highest audience in 16 years.
They drew their highest audience ever for the season premiere but those numbers will dip.
The tactic worked, delivering the news program a significantly higher audience than it had the previous week.
It attained an average of 10.1 million viewers, which is the highest recorded audience for the second season.
The drama became a huge hit at that time and attracted 60,000 audiences in the four months, setting the record of the highest audience.
The show reached a 12 month high audience on 18 January 2013 of 5.83 million viewers.
The first debate is often the one that draws the highest audience.
"We believe this strategy will help us deliver a higher audience into the first pitch each night," he said.
The program has achieved the highest audience in the country.
This was up against sports programs expected to have high viewing audiences.