• Busy night for Yalda Hakim on ABC and BBC World News
Primetime News
Seven News 1,151,000/1,103,000
Nine News 1,058,000/976,000
ABC News 742,000
10 News First 383,000 (5:30pm)/258,000 (6PM)
SBS World News 191,000 (6:30pm) 134,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 694,000
7.30 594,000
The Project 308,000 (6:30pm)/529,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 180,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 279,000
Today 256,000
News Breakfast 215,000
Late News
The Latest 314,000
Nine Late News 139,000
Seven
Home and Away aired its traditional Thursday night triple-header, with an average of 625,000 for the first two episodes making them the top non-news programs of the night while the final episode had 546,000.
My Impossible House had108,000 viewers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide as a couple tried to transform a 180-year-old church in Yorkshire into their dream home.
The Front Bar had a packed program ahead of the final AFL home and away round of the year. The show started and ended with Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight who was cataloguing the end of the Tiger’s era. Glenn Robbins was next and the comedian revealed he doesn’t have a footy team and doesn’t go to matches. The former player was Essendon great Mark Harvey. The episode had 391,000 viewers.
Nine
Nine has won its second night in a row with a narrow win in both primary (20.1%) and network (28.1%) shares.
Deborah Knight was hosting A Current Affair last night and she started the episode with an interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Asked if he had any more deals planned like finding extra Pfizer in Poland, the PM said, “Nothing that we can announce yet.” The episode had 694,000 viewers.
The NRL coverage had 381,000 viewers as the Melbourne Storm equalled the record set by the 1975 Roosters with a 19th-straight win. The team that had to be on the unfortunate side of history was the Gold Coast Titans who went down to the storm 34-20. The history-making match had 189,000 tune in from Sydney making it the top non-news program of the night.
10
The Project had 308,000 tune in for its first half-hour before having an average of 529,000 from 7:00pm. The episode covered if Australia should be doing more for the people in Kabul, and spoke to Lorde.
The Bachelor then had 487,000 viewers as Jay‘s questionable behaviour raised questions about if she actually prefers to be the runner up, Brooke returned from personal leave, and Laura was left without a rose. This episode was up on last week’s 412,000 and was also #1 for audiences aged 16-39.
This was close to the highest rating episode of the year which was episode two with 502,000.
ABC
A story about vaccine eligibility opening up as Australia hits a vaccination milestone was a feature on 7.30 (594,000) as was a Leigh Sales interview with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
Afghanistan-born, Australian BBC reporter and anchor Yalda Hakim was a guest on Sky News earlier in the week talking about she learnt of the change of government in her country of birth. However last night she took over ABC TV – first with a special report for Foreign Correspondent and then later as a guest on Q+A. Hakim’s 8pm report, recorded just days before the fall of Kabul, had an audience of 443,000, while Q+A was then on 337,000.
It was a busy night for Hakim, after she finished her commitment on Q+A, she was presenting the 10pm news bulletin on BBC World News.
SBS
The top show on SBS last night was a repeat of Great Asian Railway Journeys which had 181,000 viewers.
