TV Ratings April 20: Lego Masters tops MasterChef and Dancing with the Stars

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• Anh’s Brush with Fame and Old People’s home for 4 year olds were both under 500,000

Primetime News
Nine News 1.034,000/1.025,000
Seven News 993,000/978,000
ABC News 677,000
10 News First 359,000 (5:00 pm)/ 238,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 183,000/131,000

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 741,000
7.30 498,000
The Project 290,000 (6:30 pm)/ 480,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 196,000

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 250,000
Today 199,000
News Breakfast 172,000

Late News
The Latest 100,000
ABC Late News 101,000

Nine

Nine has continued its strong performance with another win last night with a primary share of 20.4% and a network share of 28.6%.

The top rating program for Nine was Lego Masters which was also the top non-news program of the evening with 782,000. This was down on the launch episode which aired on Monday night with 838,000.

Nine stuck with the theme of interlocking plastic bricks last night when it followed Lego Masters with Inside Legoland, which had 238,000 tuning in.

Seven

On Dancing With The Stars: All Stars, 577,000 watched as Manu Feildel, Luke Jacobz, Jamie Durie, Ada Nicodemou and Renee Bargh attempted to make the Grand Final.

After a judges deadlock, Feildel was saved by Todd McKenney’s deciding vote, while Durie and Bargh departed the competition. 

On Sunday, Luke Jacobz, Bec Hewitt, Kyly Clarke, Ada Nicodemou and Manu Feildel will take to the floor for the Grand Final.

The Good Doctor followed with 311,000, this was up on last weeks 305,000 viewers.

Earlier in the evening Home and Away had 572,000 tune in.

10

MasterChef Australia‘s second episode of the season had 582,000 viewers watch as the remainder of the season’s contestants were revealed. This was down on the launch episode on Monday which had 670,000 viewers.

This was followed by an NCIS double with 229,000 and 176,000 viewers.

The Project 290,000 (6:30 pm) and 480,000 (7:00 pm) watched as the show covered the George Floyd verdict, an Auckland transport worker testing positive for Covid, and chatted to American rock band The Offspring.

ABC

Anh’s Brush with Fame had 491,000 viewers tune in as Anh Do was joined by Kamahl who talked about how he put feats of inferiority aside as a young immigrant to selling millions of albums worldwide.

This was followed Old People’s Home for 4 year olds with 498,000 viewers.

Both Anh’s Brush with Fame and Old People’s Home for 4 year olds  were below 500,000 this week after facing stiffer competition with Nine, 10, and Seven all rolling out tentpole programming.

SBS

The top rating non-news show on SBS last night was a repeat of Who Do You Think You Are? with 177,000 viewers.

Having launched on Monday, The Cook Off with Adam Liaw had 50,000 tune in.

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