A week after the Neighbours finale aired, the total TV audience numbers are in. The final episode averaged 1.382 million total viewers with seven day catch-up.
These numbers cement the Neighbours finale as Channel 10’s biggest total audience since Oprah With Meghan And Harry last year, which had 1.36m tune in, and at the time was 10 Play’s biggest non-sport live stream audience ever.
The Neighbours finale was the #1 entertainment show the night it aired, #1 in its timeslot and has since grown 27% on its overnight audience (1.2 million national viewers, 873,000 metro viewers).
Mediaweek’s Andrew Mercado summarised the Neighbours finale in his article which can be read here, but part of his summary can be seen in the excerpt below:
“The episode saw Toadie (Ryan Moloney) getting married to Melanie (Lucinda Cowden), and a stack of couples reuniting, like Paul (Stefan Dennis) and Terese (Rebeka Elmaloglou). Nobody died, but it was a nice touch to show the ghosts of those who had departed, like Madge (Anne Charleston), Finn (Rob Mills) and Doug (Terence Donovan).
“Kudos to whoever decided that Mike (Guy Pearce) would a) turn out to be the father of Sammy (Henrietta Graham) and b) tell Jane (Annie Jones) he still loved her. Their performances were pitch perfect, and their reunion with Scott (Jason Donovan) and Charlene (Kylie Minogue) was pop perfection. (Yes, I was crying, but they were happy tears.)
“Now, has anyone checked on all those ‘family groups’ who used to scream blue murder whenever Neighbours did queer stories? They must have popped a pooper valve at how many LGBTQ couples were going to live happily ever after, not to mention a bedroom scene earlier this week between David (Takaya Honda) and Aaron (Matt Wilson) that was so hot, Channel 5 had to censor it.”
The total TV numbers for the finale of Hunted are due out on the morning of Wednesday August 10, but the show is currently averaging 1.09 million total viewers, and continues to grow with seven day audiences.