Tuesday: Week 14 2019
• Budget night sees MAFS couple Heidi and Mike reveal vows
• Cooking amid a love crisis on My Kitchen Rules
• Best of the rest: Ambo’s, The Treasurer and trains
• Seven News 1,057,000/1,024,000
• Nine News 845,000/866,000
• A Current Affair 818,000
• ABC News 692,000
• Treasurer’s Budget Speech 506,000
• ABC Budget News Special 425,000
• The Project 234,000/426,000
• 10 News First 371,000
• SBS World News 129,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 274,000
• Today 189,000
Seven
After a strong start to the week on 740,000 Home And Away has backed up with 748,000.
As My Kitchen Rules seemed to venture into MAFS territory, frenemies Pat and Bianca hugged it out after a crowd-pleasing peasant soup, calamari and cannoli secured their place in the finals. Pete and Manu again had very different scores last night. Manu rated the mushroom lasagne an 8, while Pete thought it only worthy of a 3. Meanwhile, the table was rife with tension as friends with benefits Victor and Piper dodged the truth-seeking missiles launched in their direction. The Tuesday audience was 832,000 after 806,000 a week ago.
The final episode of the three-part Manhunt did 569,000 after audiences in the 500,000s for the first two eps. Episode two had an extra 174,000 in the consolidated-7 numbers taking its audience to over 700,000.
Nine
Child safety and then story about women who kill were featured on A Current Affair. After its second best night of the year on Monday with 924,000, the Tuesday audience dipped to 818,000.
Heidi and Mike have perhaps been the most underrated couple on Married At First Sight this year. They got some airtime last night though with the episode devoted to the tortuous journeys they went on before deciding on their vows. The Budget Speech didn’t seem to tempt away too many viewers with 1.388m watching, up from 1.225m a week ago.
Travel Guides was visiting Canberra on Budget day. Aussie holidays are nice, but it’s somehow not the same as leaving the country. The audience didn’t seem to mind though with the numbers down ever-so-slightly from 909,000 for the Israel trip, to 870,000 for the nation’s capital.
10
Hamish Macdonald was reporting on the battle for Tony Abbott’s seat on The Project. The episode did 426,000 after 7pm.
Ambulance Australia was then on 363,000, down on last week’s 414,000.
NCIS then did 286,000 followed by NCIS: Los Angeles on 214,000.
ABC
The Budget Speech at 7.30pm did 506,000.
An ABC News Special followed on the Budget with 425,000 watching.
It was then back to Louis Theroux’s special on drug addiction in the US with 287,000 tuning in.
SBS
Great Continental Railway Journeys was in Italy again this week with 248,000 watching.
Insight then spoke to people with HIV with 189,000 watching.
