• True crime on Seven with The Claremont Murders
• MAFS reunion tops 2m in Total TV
Total TV Ratings, April 3
The second part of the Married At First Sight (MAFS) reunion was just as dramatic as the first, with the Reunion Commitment Ceremony taking 2,124,000 viewers to the couch, up 50%. Tayla put her foot in her mouth by revealing that she and Cam were potentially more than just friends, whilst there was hope for Claire and Jesse despite the cheating scandal.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! checked in with the celebrities roughing it in the jungle, up 37% with 879,000 watching participants sticking their hands in boxes full of creepy crawlies.
Overnight TV Ratings, April 10
Primetime News
Seven News 1,104,000 (6:00pm) / 1,101,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 845,000 (6:00pm) / 799,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 520,000
10 News First 231,000 (5:00pm)/ 170,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 149,000 (6:30pm)/ 107,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 659,000
7.30 411,000
The Project 197,000 6:30pm / 281,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 176,000
Today 130,000
News Breakfast 97,000
Seven has won Monday night with a primary share of 26.8% and a network share of 33.9%. Top multichannel was 7Two, with a share of 3.4%.
Seven took a trip to the country as Farmer Wants A Wife debuted for 630,000. The eligible bachelors gathered in the Hunter Valley to meet the lady who could be “the one”, with Farmers Brad, Brenton, and Matt meeting their favourites in a round of speed-dating. The Claremont Murders took 442,000 back to Perth in the 90s, when three young women went missing and set off the biggest unsolved murder case in West Australian history.
Earlier in the afternoon, Geelong took down Hawthorn on Monday afternoon AFL, with 390,000 watching as the Cats won 127-45.
Nine’s A Current Affair asked 659,000 what happened to retired school teacher Lesley Trotter, and spoke to Caitlin Thornton, a woman working to escape an abusive relationship despite her ex still holding all the cards in her life. Lego Masters: Grand Masters made its colourful debut, bringing back a number of familiar faces. 502,000 watched as the show spared no time getting to the tricky challenges, with teams needing to build a scene around a plate hanging by a single wire.
On 10, The Project (197,000 6:30pm / 281,000 7pm) explored the trend of teenagers staging fights to upload them on social media, and interviewed comedian Cal Wilson. In the jungle, Liz Ellis took on the Cliffhanger challenge on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, saved at the last minute by Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins. 457,000 watched as the pair walked back to camp triumphant with a total of 13 stars. The season finale of Would I Lie To You? then got 205,000 giggling.
The ABC’s 7.30 spoke to a 17yo hacker working with companies to keep them cyber safe, and spoke to poet Andy Jackson for 411,000. Australian Story told 370,000 the story of Mick and Katharine O’Dowd, before Four Corners looked into the suffocating reality of being a J-pop idol and the media cover-up over decades for 249,000. Q+A rounded out the night for 149,000.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was George Michael: Portrait Of An Artist, with 96,000.
