Wisteria Lane is far more popular than Vatican City
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Wisteria Lane is far more popular than Vatican City

Well, this is not really a news, but new to me. Yesterday I was posting an entry for History of Today, the content was Princess Diana's death. Then I noticed that Princess Diana's funeral was one of the most watched funeral in history. In order to verify that, I searched Google for some numbers, and surprising I found this article, Funeral not a Deal-breaker, from The Age.

From Australian's 5 major metropolitans, number talks. Housewives is the winner!

Only 750,000 people tuned into the Nine Network's coverage of the funeral for Pope John Paul II, compared 889,000 who watched Seven's quiz show Deal or No Deal.
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Network Ten did not televise the funeral, and instead went ahead with its regular programs, The Simpsons, which drew 714,000 viewers and Neighbours, which attracted 872,000.
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Desperate Housewives was the most-watched show of the week, with 2.36 million viewers hanging on the latest in the lives of the Wisteria Lane residents.

Well done, Housewives!

> Funeral not a Deal-breaker (The Age, 12 April 2005)

Related entry:
last two nights' winner? Wives (3 February, 2005)
John Paul II's stats