• Four Corners celebrates 60 years in style
Primetime News
Seven News 1,238,000/1,183,000
Nine News 1,182,000/1,050,000
ABC News 803,000
10 News First 436,000 (5:00pm)/ 287,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 276,000 (6:30pm) 220,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 753,000
7.30 629,000
The Project 345,000 (6:30pm)/559,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 222,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 289,000
Today 250,000
News Breakfast 217,000
Late News
The Latest 174,000
ABC Late News 173,000
Nine Late News 149,000
Seven
Seven has continued to enjoy a golden run in the last few weeks with another win, producing the top primary share with 24.7% and also the top network with 31.1%.
Home and Away started its new week on 676,000 after a week 33 average of 693,000.
The Voice saw Jessica Mauboy, in particular, adding to her team with some impressive singers. Toward the end of the show, 21-year-old Maddie Grace revealed she has cystic fibrosis and a passion for music that led her to push herself to audition for the show. The episode had 1,158,000 viewers and continued the show’s incredible run, with every episode over one million since moving to Seven.
The show was #1 in 18-49 and 25-54.
Nine
After an average audience of 747,000 last week, A Current Affair had 753,000 watching as it tackled the big news stories of the day including the latest Covid restrictions and the crisis in Kabul.
It is Guest Ensuite Week on The Block, and 619,000 watched as Josh and Luke used the winner’s dinner to try and cut a deal with Tanya and Vito to allow them to create their fourth bedroom.
Celebrity IOU followed and featured Kevin Hart wanting to thank his trainer and friend, Boss, by transforming his back house into a sleek man cave.
10
The Project again dealt with the latest on the Covid crisis worsening around Australia. The 7pm half of the show was on 559,000 after a big average of 498,000 last week.
On Survivor, there were twists aplenty, as 733,000 viewers tuned in to find out there would be three immunity necklaces up for grabs in the challenge. Not only this, but the winners of the challenge would also be the only ones to vote. With Emmet, Dani, and Andrew winning this created a power block between the first two that benefited the original Brawn Tribe.
However, there was yet another twist as Jonathan La Paglia revealed that only one of the three would be voting, and that was whoever won a fire-making challenge. This seemed to heavily favour survival expert Andrew, who exhibited quiet confidence but his chances were dashed when he broke his flint early on, allowing Dani to win the challenge. Dani then chose to send Baden home after appearing to cut a deal with Hailey earlier in the day when the latter ratted out George as the mole in the Brawn camp.
The episode was #1 in the 18-49 demographic.
Alex Ward, Mick Molloy and Anne Edmonds joined regulars Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee on Have You Been Paying Attention? The show climbed from 604,000 last week to 712,000.
ABC
Laura Tingle was back in the host’s chair on 7.30 with 629,000 watching after an average of 595,000 in Week 33. Stories covered included the latest Covid restrictions and the future of Afghanistan.
A mother’s fight to bring the killer of her daughter to justice was featured on Australian Story with 530,000 watching.
The 60th anniversary edition of Four Corners then celebrated some of the many highlights over the past six decades. Reporter Michael Charlton was the first of a cavalcade of talent onscreen across the show. Charlton and Bob Raymond then talked about the idea they hatched for the format.
See more: “Fearless”: Sally Neighbour on how Four Corners made it to 60
The cast of reporters and guests included Alan Ashbolt, John Penlington, Clem Semler, Patti Warn, Robert Moore, Frank Bennett, Mike Willesee, Alan Hogan, Peter Reid, Gordon Bick, Caroline Jones, Peter Ross, Paul Lyneham, Kerry O’Brien, Chris Masters, Andrew Olle, David Marr, Tony Jones, Peter Manning, Paul Barry, Marian Wilkinson, Liz Jackson, Jeff Kennett talking about a Sally Neighbour story (“Expect an hour of slime”), Debbie Whitmont, Jonathan Holmes, Matthew Carney, Sue Spencer, Sarah Ferguson, Quentin McDermott, Adele Ferguson, Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Linton Besser, Dylan Welch, Nick McKenzie, Sophie McNeill, Anne Connolly, Michael Brissenden, Louise Milligan, Sean Nicholls, Mark Willacy, Stan Grant, and finally, Jeff Watson.
With Paul Barry still recovering from a biking accident, Janine Perrett was the guest host on a busy episode of a Media Watch.
Tony Jones then made another appearance on the channel last night, this time presenting part one of his special Beyond the Towers looking at the 9/11 attack 20 years later.
SBS
The top program on SBS was Secret Scottland with 185,000.
