Monday: Week 14 2019
• MAFS couples Martha & Michael, Ning & Mark decide future
• Steve Marshall chases Jean Nassif for A Current Affair interview
• Plus: Home And Away cracks 700,000, Rove meets David Attenborough
• Seven News 1,029,000/1,030,000
• Nine News 960,000/981,000
• A Current Affair 924,000
• ABC News 756,000
• 7.30 621,000
• The Project 283,000/485,000
• 10 News First 394,000
• SBS World News 125,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 283,000
• Today 183,000
Seven
Home And Away will be hoping for some recognition in the TV Week Logie voting that closed on Sunday night. Meantime the program has launched into a new week on 740,000 after enjoying its best week of the year and its first 2019 weekly average over 600,000.
My Kitchen Rules contestant Victor boiled up and stormed out, followed by G, and then his secret girlfriend Piper. While they were gone, a fed up Veronica outed Piper’s relationship with Victor, telling teams “when she f*cking leaves at night-time and goes into his bed I don’t know what the f*ck is said.” Whoa! But what about the food? Josh and Austin’s Caribbean Americano menu received mixed reviews and they weren’t surprised to receive low scores from their guests. Judge Manu was not impressed either with 13 out of 30. Pete wasn’t so harsh, scoring them 20 out of 30. And the ratings? 831,000 after 763,000 on Monday last week.
The channel has been hanging onto the special Mrs Brown’s Boys episode, which screened in the UK on Xmas Day. It did 404,000 screening after 9pm last night.
Nine
A Current Affair reporter Steve Marshall was on the trail of Sydney property developer Jean Nassif last night and Nassif was very reluctant to stand still for an interview about his business. Simon Bouda next had news about the missing Roxlyn Bowie investigation. Then it was time to catch up with Mick from MAFS who was interviewed at his Gympie property by Reid Butler about life after Jess and they shared a beer. The show started the week on a very strong 924,000. Last week its average audience was 742,000, close to the previous week’s 747,000.
Two more couples exchanged their final vows on Married At First Sight in a short week with only three episodes ahead of the final episodes next week. Of the two couples last night – Martha & Michael and Ning & Mark – one relationship looked promising while the other looked over. The Monday audience was 1.407m (a Monday high this season) after 1.318m on Monday last week.
Bad Mothers helped cement Nine’s ratings victory with a healthy 9pm drama audience of 538,000 after 486,000 a week ago.
The late night Monday football talk shows followed with Footy Classified with a three market audience of 156,000 (Melbourne 102,000) while 100% Footy did close to 70,000 in two markets (Sydney 40,000).
10
Rove landed a good gig on The Project last night – interviewing Sir David Attenborough. The opportunity to promote Attenborough’s latest project was perhaps one that others were able to decline given that the channel had to plug Our Planet’s broadcaster – Netflix. The Monday episode was on 485,000 after 7pm following a week 13 average of 422,000, up a little on 412,000 the previous week.
On Dancing With The Stars the judges hit the dance floor with each picking a team with US DWTS winner Bindi Irwin doing the judging. Scott Tweedie stood in for the ailing Grant Denyer. By the end of the show the top five had been decided with Sir Curtly Ambrose not making the cut.
Both parts of last week’s show were close to 450,000 with 430,000 last night which climbed to 500,000 for the elimination announcement.
ABC
Australian Story featured Behrouz Boochani, the man who won Australia’s richest literary award, but remains unable to set foot in this country. The episode did 542,000.
Four Corners looked at climate change and in particular what is changing in Australia right now with 544,000 watching.
Media Watch was on 565,000 with a look at a secret Adelaide bomb plot the media couldn’t report and then it examined Al Jazeera’s One Nation sting.
SBS
The final episode of The Kennedy’s covered the assassination of Robert. The episode was on 153,000.
A repeat episode of Michael Mosley: Trust Me I’m A Doctor did 152,000 followed by 24 Hours In Emergency on 159,000.
