Sunday: Week 15 2019
• 37.0% – Nine starts final week before Easter with massive win
• Married At First Sight penultimate episode sets new record
• Nine also sets records for 60 Minutes & Australian Crime Stories
• Nine News 1,104,000
• Seven News 1,096,000
• ABC News 634,000
• Insiders 290,000
• The Project 239,000/262,000
• 10 News First 239,000
• Offsiders 163,000
• SBS World News 137,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 280,000
• Today 207,000
Seven
Seven has recorded its eighth consecutive Sunday primary share under 20%. The good news is this is the last Sunday it goes head-to-head with Married At First Sight until February 2020.
Seven News Sunday made it to 1m.
It’s next best was My Kitchen Rules on 784,000, down from 801,000 a week ago.
Sunday Night managed a top 10 spot with 400,000, down from 445,000 last week. It was perhaps a poor return from a royal family special.
Nine
The broadcaster set a number of records last night with the year’s best primary share for any broadcaster – 37.0%. It didn’t quite record the highest combined channel network share though, but it went close. Last night Nine did 45.5%, just short of its 47.9% on the night of the Women’s Final at the Australian Open.
Nine also has set a new record for the biggest TV audience so far this year – 1,858,000 for the penultimate episode of Married At First Sight. (That translates to 2,448,000 national with a national peak audience over 2.9m.) It was the biggest ever MAFS audience across the six seasons of the show.
The crowd of viewers watching Nine was also good news for 60 Minutes which posted its biggest audience in over three years – with 1.083m watching the Liz Hayes story on pathological liar Sarah Jane Parkinson and the trail of destruction she left.
Australian Crime Stories also enjoyed a viewing boost with 437,000 well up on last week’s 316,000 and its best numbers this year. The episode started last night with host Adam Shand in a cemetery as he investigated a story he has come to know very well about the “vampire gigolo” Shane Chartres-Abbott.
10
The end of Married At First Sight will be welcome at 10 as the broadcaster recorded its lowest primary share this year and one of its smallest ever.
The channel’s best was The Sunday Project at 7pm with under 300,000 watching.
Sunday Night Takeaway was then down to 161,000.
Hughesy, We Have A Problem then managed to lift the audience significantly to 198,000.
ABC
The channel had two shows in the top 10 last night – ABC News on 634,000 and then Restoration Australia covered the loving rebuild of an 1840s homestead just outside Warwick on the edge of the Darling Downs with 498,000 watching.
SBS
Secrets Of The Bermuda Triangle did best at 7.30pm with 180,000.