• Paramedics returned for its third season on Nine
• Mad as Hell wraps its season with a character swap
Primetime News
Seven News 1,178,000/1,162,000
Nine News 1,081,000/1,031,000
ABC News 713,000
10 News First 431,000 (5:00pm)/ 275,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 175,000 (6:30pm) 131,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
7.30 606,000
The Project 324,000 (6:30pm)/530,000 (7pm)
The Drum 205,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 274,000
Today 270,000
News Breakfast 139,000
Late News
Nine News Late Edition 138,000
The Latest 137,000
ABC Late News 69,000
SBS World News Late 65,000
Seven
Seven has continued its winning streak that began before the Olympics by once again registering the #1 primary (22.7%) and network (31.4%) shares for the night. 7mate was also the top multichannel with 3.6%.
The Voice is finished for the week so Seven went back to its previous tentpole franchise, the Farmer Wants a Wife for a reunion special. The episode brought in 828,000 viewers, with a lot of FWAW fans most likely hoping that the show would address the controversy of former contestant Hayley‘s pregnancy.
Farmer Will, the alleged father of the unborn child appeared with Jaimee during the episode, continuing to be loved up after their final decisions in the finale.
The show only addressed the issue at the end of the episode with a voice-over from host Natalie Gruzlewski,
“One last thing before we say goodbye to another successful season of Farmer Wants A Wife. I have got some exciting news. Since we recorded the reunion, I’ve found out one of Farmer Matt’s ladies Hayley is pregnant. We wish her and her soon-to-be bundle of joy all the very best.”
This was followed by the anticipated debut of the new Aussie drama RFDS, based on real-life stories and filmed on location in and around Broken Hill.
RFDS aims to capture the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre, where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency rescues across some of the most inhospitable places in the country. The debut episode brought in 604,000 viewers.
Nine
The Block continued its premiere week with a fourth episode that brought in 633,000 viewers. In the episode, Mitch and Mark were on their way to breaking Jimmy and Tam‘s record for completing a room in the fastest time ever. But first had to navigate gossip fueled drama with Josh and Luke. Thankfully it was all sorted with a six-pack.
This episode was about even with Tuesday’s 634,000 viewers.
The factual series Paramedics then returned for season three with 421,000 viewers. With more than two million emergency calls made every year in Victoria, one every 12 seconds, the cameras will once again capture the paramedics as they work around the clock.
In the episode, Natalie and Leonard comfort a schoolboy who has fallen metres out of a tree and landed on his head. Cam fights to save a father in cardiac arrest. Matt and the flight crew race to a fellow paramedic bitten by a deadly brown snake, but reaching her in a remote location proves to be almost impossible. And Mike and Eamon get the call to support a young woman with a debilitating yet all-too-common condition, endometriosis.
Australian Crime Stories returned with season five. Regular host Adam Shand and narrator Mark Burrows were on board for a fascinating episode looking into the disappearance of Juanita Nielsen in the 1970s. Producers The Full Box managed to uncover some new theories about her probable murder 46 years ago including some insights from former Sydney journalist Barry Ward now in the UK. The episode had 110,000 viewers.
The episode only screened in Sydney and Brisbane as other markets got Footy Classified which had 110,000 as well. The markets that missed out will get Australian Crime Stories tonight.
10
The Project had 324,000 (6:30pm) and 530,000 (7:00pm) viewers as the show discussed paying people to get tested for Covid-19, and spoke to actor Kat Stewart.
The Bachelor had 414,000 as the mansion had three visitors: Jimmy’s sister Tahnee, cousin Lisa and Tiffany (his motorbike).
The episode also featured a dramatic dinner party, while Tatum decided to go home, and Stevie didn’t receive a rose.
The episode was up on last week’s 366,000 viewers.
ABC
Win the Week bounced back from its lowest rating episode since launch (280,000) last week with 367,000 tuning in last night.
The last episode of the year from Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell then had 532,000 as the show dug into the Government’s $660 million commuter carpark scandal and other pork barrelling policies. To switch things up for the last episode, the cast all took on each other’s characters for the night, before they ended the season with a rendition of The Offspring’s Come Out And Play.
Rosehaven continued its final season with 391,000 viewers.
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS was a repeat of Princess Diana’s Wicked Stepmother with 174,000.
