• 10 does well in key demos thanks to Survivor and HYBPA?
• Love them or hate them: Four Corners takes on Fox News
Primetime News
Seven News 1,217,000/1,139,000
Nine News 1,114,000/1,001,000
ABC News 709,000
10 News First 428,000 (5:00pm)/ 274,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 184,000 (6:30pm) 165,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 813,000
7.30 626,000
The Project 366,000 (6:30pm)/563,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 218,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 289,000
Today 259,000
News Breakfast 223,000
Late News
The Latest 170,000
Nine Late News 137,000
ABC Late News 135,000
Seven
On Seven, Home and Away kicked off its week with a strong 676,000 viewers.
The Voice then followed with 1,113,000 as Rita Ora continued to prove herself as the Pitch Queen after convincing Jess Mauboy‘s own niece to join her team last week, this time it was Jessica Stokes who chose Ora after working with Mauboy previously as a backup singer.
The night also included Ella Monnery’s return to the stage after COVID-19 ended her 2020 Voice dream and rapper Isaiah Lugo-Hale forced Ora to block fellow coach Guy Sebastian.
A double of 9-1-1: Lone Star then followed with 392,000 and 246,000 tuning in.
Nine
A Current Affair had 813,000 viewers as Tracy Grimshaw interviewed the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
Once again the Premier stated that life will receive some normalcy once vaccine rates hit 70-80%.
“We know that the harsh lockdowns in NSW are affecting every single citizen so for us to be able to give them something that they can do they couldn’t previously do is I think an important opportunity,” Berejiklian said.
The premier said she expects that NSW vaccine rates will be around the 70 to 80 per cent mark by mid-November.
“We won’t have real freedom unless we hit the 70 per cent double dose vaccination and in NSW we’re likely to hit that at the end of October and then 80 per cent double dose vaccination which gives us life before the outbreak pretty much life as we knew it,” she said.
The Block then followed with 627,000 viewers as both Josh and Luke and Ronnie and Georgia run into problems at the start of Master Bedroom week.
Under Investigation with Liz Hayes returned for its second season last night with 435,000 viewers, the episode covered how Sallie-Anne Huckstepp exposed Australia’s corrupt cops in the 1980s.
100% Footy (89,000) and Footy Classified (169,000) then followed for the footy heads.
10
The Project had 366,000 (6:30pm) and 563,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the Covid-19 response planned by the federal government.
Survivor then had a strong 699,000 viewers as the political operative George was gifted a powerful advantage in the game, the ability to use a secret immunity idol at that night’s Tribal Council. George once again attempted to play both sides by saving his ally Cara and using her to send Laura home.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then had 664,000 as the show was joined by Tony Martin, Kate Langbroek and The Cheap Seats co-host Melanie Bracewell.
Despite the guest talent on the show, the joke of the night might have gone to regular contestant Sam Pang. After Ed Kavalee said that the ‘Blue Wiggle’ Anthony Field was on his 2Day FM breakfast show, Pang deadpanned “watch out Kyle and Jackie O”.
10 performed well in the key demographics last night with HYBPA? and Survivor #1 and #2 for the 16-39 and 18-49 demos.
ABC
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian wasn’t done for the night after appearing on A Current Affair at 7:00pm she then jumped across to 7:30 to talk to Leigh Sales. The episode had 626,000 viewers.
Four Corners once again didn’t steer away from controversy last night with 586,000 tuning in for Sarah Ferguson‘s two-parter on Fox News titled Fox and the Big Lie. Ferguson investigated how the Fox network promoted Donald Trump to a fault and helped “destabilise democracy in America” and the impact that it had in both the 2016 and 2020 election results.
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SBS
The top program on SBS last night was a repeat of Inside Windsor Castle with 208,000 viewers.
