• 660,000 watch more drama on The Block
• 656,000 tune in to watch David Aumua blow the coaches away with his rendition of You Say
Total TV Ratings, August 7
3,510,000 supported our Aussie Matildas in a thrilling match against Denmark in Seven’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, up 13%.
1,678,000 also sat down for Seven’s FIFA Women’s World Cup Pre-Game, up 11% and 1,068,000 stayed on for the Post-Game, up 9%.
1,461,000 viewed The Voice Australia where 12-year-old NSW student Gezel Bardossi left the coaches in awe, up 23%.
1,226,000 watched Nine’s The Block as the Blockheads chose their houses, up 54%.
835,000 watched 10’s Hunted Australia Extraction as the final three Fugitives made it to safety, up 33% and 709,000 tuned in for the Finale, up 37%.
Overnight TV Ratings, August 14
Primetime News
Seven News 986,000 (6:00pm) / 963,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 840,000 (6:00pm) / 831,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 619,000
10 News First 228,000 (5:00pm)/ 165,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 176,000 (6:30pm)/ 135,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 692,000
7.30 543,000
The Project 191,000 6:30pm / 294,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 213,000
Today 180,000
News Breakfast 88,000
Seven won Monday night with a primary share of 22.7% and a network share of 31.4%. 7TWO won multi-channels with a 3.9% share.
513,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away where Eden wondered if he could trust Cash and Dana risked blowing her own cover. Then, 656,000 singing fans tuned into The Voice Australia. David Aumua, 24, blew the coaches away with his inspirational performance of You Say by Lauren Daigle and Nyree Huyser, 37, who sang Stone Cold by Demi Lovato, prompted Guy Sebastian to ask: “Where have you been hiding?”
Nine’s A Current Affair (692,000) looked at how police arrested a man on August 14 after he was filmed by fellow passengers shouting during a flight from Sydney to Malaysia. The plane was turned around after a mid-air emergency incident. Then, 660,000 watched The Block where a Body Corporate meeting was called over Steph’s dad who worked on House Four without being paid or inducted.
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On 10, The Project (191,000 6:30pm / 294,000 7pm) welcomed Aussie singer-songwriter and star of Gold Diggers Eddie Perfect, the brains behind the Beetlejuice musical. He revealed how hard he had to fight for his vision which has now had eight Tony nominations. The Traitors Australia as things began to heat up in the grand old manor. Elias (Faithful) was murdered while award-winning actor Gyton (Faithful) was banished during the Banishment ceremony. 250,000 watched on. Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed for 533,000 as Alan Davies, Urzila Carlson, Marty Sheargold, Melanie Bracewell and Ed Kavalee were quizzed to see if they’d been paying attention by host Tom Gleisner.
543,000 watched ABC’s 7.30, which looked at the decline in the big four’s auditing quality with fears of a corporate collapse. Laura Tingle also interviewed Alicia Ferguson-Cook and the series saw how new research showed alarming levels of antisemitism on university campuses. Then, on Back Roads, Heather Ewart headed to Tasmania with two intrepid line dancers who were on a boot-scootin line dancing tour of the nation, raising money to help others. 458,000 tuned in. Then, 325,000 watched Four Corners which detailed thousands of Australian babies who are born exposed to their mothers’ drug use every year. 374,000 then stayed on for Media Watch.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes with 80,000 tuning in to see actor Charlie Hardwick show Robson Green the hidden gems of the East Durham Coastline on his journey to find fresh ways of spending time in the outdoors.
