Dancing all the way to the bank

Lorraine Downes and Aaron Gilmore may have been crowned winners of Dancing with the Stars, but the real winner seems to be TV One.

About 1.2 million viewers aged over 5 tuned in to the final on Sunday night.

Each episode attracted an average of 800,000 viewers, compared with 740,000 last year - up 9.5 per cent.

TVNZ says it will be two months before the amount earned by contestants' charities is known.