• DWTS also has a strong night with over 600K
• Spicks and Specks had a big return on the ABC
Primetime News
Seven News 1,038,000
Nine News 1,021,000
ABC News 622,000
10 News First 309,000 (5:00 pm)/ 258,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 209,000/159,000
Daily current affairs
Insiders 356,000
The Project 283,000 (6:30 pm)/ 311,000 (7 pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 268,000
Today 235,000
News Breakfast 162,000
Nine
Nine had a sensational evening last night with a primary share of 33.3% and a network share of 40.4% which was both 15 points clear of its closet competition, and the largest TV shares of the year for any network.
This big win was thanks to Married at First Sight which aired its season finale last night to a robust audience of 1.398m. This was the highest rating program of the year, knocking off Meghan and Harry‘s interview with Oprah Winfrey on 10. However, this was down on last year’s finale of 1.478m.
The finale ended with three couples still together, but the main talking point of the evening was the revelation that when Bec left the experiment temporarily to tend to her sick dog, that she cheated on Jake. When the video was revealed she initially claimed it was her brother before coming clean that it was an ex.
This was followed by 60 Minutes with 647,000.
Earlier in the day, the NRL coverage had 241,000 viewers as the North Queensland Cowboys defeated the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, leaving the dogs winless for the season.
Seven
Dancing with the Stars had 621,000 viewers as Manu Feildel, Luke Jacobz, Jamie Durie and Ada Nicodemou revisited dances from their previous seasons, while wildcards Renee Bargh and Jessica Gomes recreated a past contestants’ favourite performance.
Dancing the rhumba, Jacobz won the night scoring a total of 38, including three 10s, with Helen Richey acknowledging the bold choice of dance took “huge courage”.
Jessica Gomes’ rock’n’roll jive didn’t quite land with the judges, scoring just 19, and she found herself in the bottom two with Jamie Durie. While Durie survived another round with Gomes being eliminated.
This was down on the season’s launch episode last Sunday, which had 744,000.
10
On the eve of MasterChef, 10 aired the documentary Lion Queen, which followed Malika’s journey from a young lion cub, to a Queen. The special had 108,000 viewers.
The Sunday Project had 283,000 (6:30 pm) and 311,000 (7 pm) viewers as the show covered the future of the royal family following Prince Philip’s funeral, a potential $10 billion boost to the aged care sector, and the backlash to Netflix’s Byron Baes reality show.
ABC
On the ABC, Spicks and Specks returned with 655,000 viewers. For the first time since 2014 this will be a full series, with ten episodes airing on Sunday nights at 7.40pm.
The original lineup of Adam Hills, Myf Warhurst, and Alan Brough will team up with some of Australia’s brightest music stars including The Teskey Brothers, Alice Skye, G-Flip, Vika and Linda, and Missy Higgins. There will also be a lineup of some of Australia’s most well known comedians including Anne Edmonds, Nazeem Hussain, Luke McGregor, and Spicks and Specks stalwarts Dave O’Neil and Denise Scott.
This was followed by the Aussie drama Wakefield with 309,000.
SBS
The top show on SBS last night was 1000 Years of History with 247,000.
