• The Block tops non-news
• The Amazing Race brings two groups together
• Summer Love makes its debut on the ABC
Total TV Ratings, August 24
Once again The Block has come out the dominant show of the night, with 1,288,000 watching as the teams were trying – and not necessarily succeeding – to lay tiles for their master ensuites. The episode lifted 38%.
Seven’s My Kitchen Rules lifted 28%, with 936,000 watching as Italian sisters Leanne and Milena took to the kitchen, scoring 87/110.
The Masked Singer peaked at 877,000 for the reveal that Tori Spelling was under the Poodle mask, lifting 24%. The rest of the episode was up 27% to 777,000.
On the ABC, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell lifted 19% to 791,000.
Overall TV Ratings, August 31
Primetime News
Seven News 855,000/839,000
Nine News 806,000/827,000
ABC News 583,000
10 News First 251,000 (5:00pm)/159,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 109,000 (6:30pm)/112,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 641,000
7.30 470,000
The Project 189,000 (6:30pm)/ 316,000 (7pm)
The Drum 170,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 211,000
Today 183,000
News Breakfast 162,000
Late News
ABC Late News 84,000
Nine News Late 99,000
The Latest: Seven News 61,000
Seven has won the night with a 22.3% primary share, however Nine has taken the highest network share with 29.3%. 9Gem and 10 Peach have tied for the win in multichannels for the night, with a 2.9% share.
On Nine, A Current Affair kicked the night off for Nine, with 641,000 watching as the show interviewed Det Sgt Damian Loone about his time investigating Lynette Dawson‘s disappearance, and took a look back at when the news broke about Princess Diana’s death. The fallout from the newest cheating scandal on The Block continued in front of 744,000 viewers. Whilst the clock ticks down to the master bedroom and walk-in wardrobe reveal, the other teams discussed how Ankur and Sharon used Google to get ahead in the wine challenge.
Seven’s Home And Away started the night off with a dose of drama for 481,000 viewers. The finale of My Kitchen Rules brought 528,000 into Kitchen HQ as Sydney couple Janelle and Monzir took out the crown. 643,000 watched the winner reveal as the pair won with a score of 27/30 in a fiercely fought battle, with only two points separating them from Kate and Mary.
See Also: Janelle and Monzir win the My Kitchen Rules crown for 2022
In Melbourne, The Front Bar followed on with 293,000 tuning in – 189,000 from Victoria.
10’s The Project (189,000 6:30pm / 316,000 7pm) covered the news that Australian golf champion Cameron Smith had signed up for Saudi-backed golf tour LIV, and interviewed Silverchair frontman, Daniel Johns. The Amazing Race threw a major plot twist at the contestants, introducing the 18 remaining teams to one another. 342,000 tuned in as the model couple, Jake and Holly, were eliminated after hitting the mat last in Morocco’s Chefchaouen.
The ABC’s 7.30 was watched by 470,000 as the show covered the Albanese government’s jobs summit and interviewed former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Rodric Braithwaite, about his relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev. A repeat of Hard Quiz tested the trivia of 454,000, before Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell mocked the week for 481,000. Summer Love debuted to 290,000 viewers, before Win The Week wrapped up the night with 163,000.
The highest rating show on SBS was a repeat of Tony Robinson’s History Of Britain, with 163,000.
