• Andrew and Damian dominated the challenge on Lego Masters: Grand Masters
• Tony Armstrong took Aussies through some Great Australian Stuff
Total TV Ratings, April 11
Seven’s Farmer Wants A Wife sent fans into a tizzy with Farmer Brenton, Farmer David, Farmer Matt, and Farmer Brad all ending their first dates with a first kiss. 1,109,000 tuned in to see sparks fly between the new crop of Farmers and their ladies, up 26%.
During Nine’s second episode of Lego Masters: Grand Masters, the teams were tasked with creating a model that could be sent over a waterfall in the most spectacular way. 843,000 tuned in, as Hamish Blake and “Brickman” Ryan McNaught put the team through their paces. Up 39%.
On Ten’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here, Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins’ first jungle trial ended in horror when a giant snake took a humungous bite of his hand. 823,000 watched in horror as the former Bachelor star then declared the event as “awesome” and funnily enough, we don’t concur. Up 30%
On ABC, Tony Armstrong took Aussies through some Great Australian Stuff, including the meat pie, macadamia nut, Chiko Roll, and Vegemite. 750,000 learned more about some of our most famous foods, up 18%.
Overnight TV Ratings, April 18
Primetime News
Seven News 897,000 (6:00pm) / 857,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 790,000 (6:00pm) / 782,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 541,000
10 News First 216,000 (5:00pm)/ 153,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 152,000 (6:30pm)/ 112,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 644,000
7.30 440,000
The Project 170,000 6:30pm / 248,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 214,000
Today 186,000
News Breakfast 137,000
Once again, Seven has won the night with a primary share of 20.7% and a network share of 29.3%. 7Two has won multichannels with a 3.6% share.
446,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away as Eden sought advice from Kirby while Mali offered his support to Mackenzie. Meanwhile, iconic characters Marilyn and Irene were at odds with one another. Following the beachside drama, viewers then travelled to the countryside for Farmer Wants a Wife. After Lucie’s shock (not!) exit on Monday, it was the ladies turn to plan dates for the sought-after Farmers, but there was a caveat! The Farmers had no idea who planned which date. Corista and Maddison from Brad and Andrew’s farms respectively decided to leave with 507,000 tuning in.
Nine’s A Current Affair (644,000) investigated the police who say they are looking in the “best possible area” for missing retired teacher Lesley Trotter but the search could still take weeks until they find something. They also featured the father of slain paramedic Steven Tougher, who is calling for “Steven’s Law” to protect frontline workers. Then, 411,000 tuned in to Lego Masters: Grand Masters, watching in awe as the teams created a well-known or original secret, mystery, or conspiracy theory out of Lego. Andrew and Damian took the win with their Juiced Up Lab Rat.
Andrew and Owen’s winning masterpiece. Nine.
440,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explore an award-winning men’s mental health program, co-founded by a former Sydney Swan, who is trying to get men into exercise at the beach as a way of improving their mental health and Sarah Ferguson interviewed prime minister Anthony Albanese. Then, 376,000 tuned in for this week’s episode of Great Australian Stuff. Host Tony Armstrong explored items from the land that have become iconic and recognisable around the world, including the boomerang, the Akubra and the Permanent Pleat.
On 10, The Project (170,000 6:30pm / 248,000 7pm) welcomed comedian Tommy Little to the desk who spoke about HoMie hoodies which are helping change the life of a young person affected by homelessness. The panel also investigated the charity Fruit2Work which is helping convicted felons find work, and looked at how the government has put shoddy NDIS providers on notice, declaring the scheme will undergo an overhaul so it can live up to its original ambitions. Then, on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, 435,000 tuned in to see ‘Buttergate’ send the camp into meltdown. Returning from the Room Of Doom, Domenica Calarco and Nathan Henry came bearing gifts for their campmates: coffee, tea, sugar, croissants and butter. However, when it camp to dinner time, the celebs searched high and low for it but came up empty handed, leading them to point fingers.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Who Do You Think You Are (US) with 109,000 tuning in to see Friends’ actor Lisa Kudrow explore her family history. While Kudrow had always known that her grandmother Gertrude had a tough life, it was her father Lee who recalled hearing about her great-grandmother’s death during the Holocaust.
