• The Block launches guest bedroom week
• The Masked Singer gets a Wiggle on
• Back Roads takes off for WA
• The knives come out on MKR with the first elimination
Total TV Ratings, August 8
The Block has claimed the top spot of the night overall, lifting 41% for a total audience of 1,670,000 watching as the bombshell that Joel and Elle had left the show for good was dropped.
The Masked Singer reveal did the best for 10, up 23% for 1,024,000 watching as Caterpillar was found out to be Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lisa Curry. The rest of the episode lifted 27%, bringing in 801,000. Have You Been Paying Attention? had 964,000 tune in, up 25%.
On Seven, Home and Away was up 22% for a total audience of 952,000. My Kitchen Rules had 859,000 tune in as Queensland fine diners Kate and Mary scored 87/110 and took first place on the leader board, up 35%.
Overnight TV Ratings, August 15
Primetime News
Seven News 985,000/962,000
Nine News 840,000/856,000
ABC News 679,000
10 News First 286,000 (5:00pm)/ 191,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 108,000 (6:30pm) 110,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 697,000
7.30 581,000
The Project 264,000 (6:30pm)/390,000 (7pm)
The Drum 201,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 212,000
Today 198,000
News Breakfast 174,000
Nine has won the night with a 21.7% primary share and a 28.8% network share. Leading the night for multichannels was 7two with a 3.1% share.
On Nine, A Current Affair had 697,000 tune in as the show spoke to a woman who discovered a stranger in her mum’s coffin during the funeral, and interviewed the pensioners who have had their lives ruined by an electricity bill. It was guest bedroom week on The Block, with 805,000 tuning in to make it the highest rating entertainment show of the night. Rounding out the evening was Emergency, which drew in 354,000 viewers.
Seven’s night began with Home and Away, with 483,000 taking a trip to Summer Bay. My Kitchen Rules followed with 513,000 watching as Ashlee and Mat took to the kitchen. Their score of 69/110 saw Steven and Frena eliminated, while Queensland’s Kate and Mary claimed the first position in the MKR semi-final.
The Project (264,000 6:30pm / 390,000 7pm) fired up by asking whether or not Hobart City Council should remove a statue honouring an 1800s Premier accused of mutilating an Indigenous corpse, before cooling off by taking a dip in the icy waters of Melbourne with the Cold Water Club. The Masked Singer brought 445,000 along to the party, before 526,000 watched the reveal as Zombie was discovered to be former Yellow Wiggle, Emma Watkins. Have You Been Paying Attention? continues to pull big laughs and big numbers for 10, with 627,000 tuning in.
The ABC’s 7.30 covered Scott Morrison‘s secretive appointment to multiple portfolios within his own cabinet and interviewed former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for 581,000. Back Roads took off for Leonora, WA, alongside 520,000, before Four Corners took 445,000 behind the scenes of the first few weeks in Parliament for the new women on the crossbench.
The highest rating show on SBS was DNA Family Secrets with 113,000 tuning in.
