• Seven #1 primary, network, and multichannel
• Survivor gives Flick another chance
• Four Corners airs part two of its controversial investigation
Primetime News
Seven News 1,222,000/1,156,000
Nine News 1,118,000/1,067,000
ABC News 739,000
10 News First 403,000 (5:00pm)/ 248,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 206,000 (6:30pm) 144,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 811,000
7.30 591,000
The Project 338,000 (6:30pm)/535,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 185,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 287,000
Today 257,000
News Breakfast 218,000
Late News
ABC Late News 204,000
The Latest 114,000
SBS World News Late 59,000
Seven
Seven was easily the top primary channel (24.2%), network (33.2%) and multichannel (5.2%) last night thanks to a combination of 7 News, Home and Away, The Voice, and the Paralympics.
Home and Away started off its week with 658,000 after averaging 650,000 for last week’s episodes.
The Voice then followed with 1.006m as it continues its golden run with every episode still over 1 million in 2021. The episode featured Team Jess and Team Rita’s Top fives.
G-Nat!on were fast-tracked to the Semi-Final after Rita Ora wasn’t ready to say Bye, Bye, Bye following their performance of the *NSYNC track.
Ella Monnery’s rendition of Stupid Love by Lady Gaga sent her straight into the Semi-Final as well.
Mick Harrington’s performance of I’m With You by Avril Lavigne left no doubt in his coach Jess Mauboy’s mind. Jess said: “Watching you on stage, you still feel like a fish out of water here… honestly you do belong there. I want to tell you that. You’re not just Mick the lawnmower, you could be Mick the megastar.”
Sian Fuller scored a Semi-Final berth with her intimate and emotional take on Complicated by Avril Lavigne. After hearing all her Top Five artists perform, Rita Ora sent the 16-year-old through declaring: “It has to come down to who I see grow the fastest and who has that growth inside of them, who I think would win.”
A double of 9-1-1: Lone Star then followed with 312,000 and 191,000 viewers.
The top rating segment of the Paralympics coverage was the night segment with 205,000.
Nine
The Block had 809,000 viewers as the cheating scandal hit the cul-de-sac. The details began to emerge when Josh and Luke confronted Ronnie and Georgia over the bombshell they dropped after the master bedroom reveals.
Josh and Luke admitted they have seen a photo of the production schedule whiteboard and that their builder Ryan has the photo, but he didn’t take it.
Host Scott Cam then told the teams that the production schedule has now been scrapped with rooms drawn at random, and teams will have to deliver it regardless of any supply problems.
This was the second-highest rating episode of the year after Sunday’s episode and is up on last weeks 627,000. The show was also #1 in the 25-54 demo.
Under Investigation with Liz Hayes had 375,000 viewers as the show spoke to former Prime Minister John Howard ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Howard was in Washington DC at the time of the coordinated attacks by terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States which took the lives of thousands of people, on September 11, 2001.
In rarely seen footage of Howard being rushed to safety amidst the escalating crisis, he reflected on his immediate concern for his wife Janette and son Tim who were scheduled to visit the Pentagon.
The show also featured the Sydney man who survived the collapse of the towers and experts on politics, counter-terrorism and conspiracies to explore the legacy of 9/11.
100% Footy and Footy Classified then had 721,000 and 163,000 respectively.
10
The Project had 338,000 (6:30pm) and 535,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the issues between the federal and state governments over the Covid national road map.
Survivor had 690,000 viewers as Flick was gifted another chance in the game after being voted out by the Fire Tribe, but took advantage of the one in three chance of smashing an urn and getting back in the tribe.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed with 637,000 as the episode featured Luke McGregor, Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan.
10 performed well in the key demographics last night with HYBPA? #1 in 16-39 and 18-49 whiles Survivor was also top five in all key demos.
ABC
The start of a new week of 7.30 (591,000) featured the first of four reports titled Why women are angry? The first episode featured Leigh Sales reporting on income inequality.
Australian Story (614,000) was an episode on actor Michael Caton. During the show guests included actor Jack Thompson and director Jeremy Sims. Caton’s son recalled how Caton was paid $3,000 for an 11 week shoot on The Castle and how it reignited his career leading to much more work.
Four Corners (602,000) was the much anticipated second part of Sarah Ferguson‘s look at Fox News. Tonight it looked at the US channel’s relationship with Donald Trump and the ongoing agitation about the US Presidential election result.
SBS
The most watched non-news program on SBS last night was Secret Scotland with 168,000.
