• The Voice comes in at top non-news for the night
• MasterChef relay gets spicy
• ABC’s Wednesday night comedy lineup gets the laughs
Total TV Ratings: April 20, 2022
April 20th rounded out the first week on air for two major tentpole shows. Seven’s The Voice lifted 27% for a total audience of 1.248m and Nine’s Lego Masters rose 42% for a total of 1.143m.
MasterChef lifted 40% and brought in 687,000 viewers. The Thing About Pam rose by over half, lifting 52% for a total of 574,000.
Overnight TV Ratings: April 27, 2022
Primetime News
Seven News 953,000/905,000
Nine News 896,000/860,000
ABC News 645,000
10 News First 295,000 (5:00pm)/ 198,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 158,000 (6:30pm)/124,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current affairs
A Current Affair 666,000
7.30 477,000
The Project 248,000 (6:30pm)/ 407,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 161,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 233,000
Today 185,000
News Breakfast 183,000
Seven has won the night with a primary share of 22.5% and a network share of 29.8%. 7TWO was king of the multichannles with a primetime lineup of The Coronor and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries earning it a share of 3.4%.
On Seven, 481,000 tuned in to Home and Away before The Voice saw an emotional déjà vu moment for Jessica Mauboy when 20yo wedding singer Chloe Kandetzki sang I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston – the same song that Mauboy performed for her 2007 Australian Idol audition. With 683,000 tuning in, The Voice was the top non-news show of the night.
On Nine, A Current Affair covered Australia’s ambulance crisis and the bureaucracy dramas that are stopping a young couple from building their dream home for an audience of 666,000. Afterward, 613,000 joined the Travel Guides as they headed west to Perth and Rottnest Island.
The Project pulled an audience of 248,000 (6:30pm) / 407,000 (7pm) for 10 as the show dove into the Australian Bureau Of Statistics claim that inflation is up 5.1%, and had interviews with the federal member for Goldstein Tim Wilson and comedian Sarah Millican. Afterward, MasterChef brought 443,000 into the kitchen as the teams spit up for a cooking relay to create a dish with chilies as the hero ingredient. Finally, First Dates took 193,000 out for dinner.
7:30 covered the ‘teal independents’ and interviewed both shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers and finance minister Simon Birmingham for an audience of 477,000 before the ABC’s Wednesday night comedy lineup kicked in. 533,000 watched Hard Quiz give away the big brass mug before The Weekly with Charlie Pickering had 460,000 tune in to its season debut. Tomorrow Tonight wrapped up the evening by asking 329,000 what would happen if God was proven to be real.
The highest ranting non-news show on SBS was MH370: The Lost Flight which drew an audience of 136,000.