• Viewers tune in to The Block as couple walks out
• 10 lifts the mask on Lisa Curry
• My Kitchen Rules serves up quail
Total TV Ratings: August 1
Topping the night in entertainment was Hunted, which had 1,066,000 viewers as two more fugitives were captured in Lavinia and Matt – up 31%. Also on 10, Have You Been Paying Attention? lifted 22%, drawing in 981,000.
On Nine, Beauty and the Geek had 832,000 viewers, up 25%, as Mega Makeover Monday saw four makeovers revealed before Emily and Jason were sent home.
On the ABC, Back Roads packed its bags and take 816,000 viewers to Tumut in New South Wales, lifting 16%.
Overnight TV Ratings: August 8
Primetime News
Seven News 1,008,000/998,000
Nine News 861,000/906,000
ABC News 622,000
10 News First 316,000 (5:00pm)/ 178,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 121,000 (6:30pm) 98,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 714,000
7.30 477,000
The Project 231,000 (6:30pm)/391,000 (7pm)
The Drum 152,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 249,000
Today 169,000
News Breakfast 157,000
Nine has won the night with a 21.8% primary share, however Seven has taken the win in network shares with 32.3%. As the Commonwealth Games draw to a close, 7mate has come out on top for multichannels with a 7.3% share.
On Nine, A Current Affair spoke to former footy star Nathan Stapleton and his family about life with quadriplegia and meeting his newborn son, before warning 714,000 about the fake Google reviews to look out for next time you’re trying to choose a restaurant. The Block wasted no time in cracking into the challenges, with the teams unveiling their bedrooms, before dropping the bombshell that Joel and Elle had left The Block for good in front of 835,000 viewers. Emergency rounded out the night for 390,000.
Seven’s Home and Away turned on the sunshine (and the drama) for 451,000 to kick the night off. My Kitchen Rules then served up its second episode for 408,000 viewers. Queensland fine diners Kate and Mary scored 87/110 and took first place on the leader board, plating up Brisbane Valley Quail with Fig and Goat’s Curd Salad.
The top ratings Commonwealth Games session for the day 11 was the Night session with 445,000.
The Project (231,000 6:30pm / 391,000 7pm) interviewed the Sydney principal who has banned phones from his school and spoke to Sophie Ellis-Bextor as she visits Australia for the first time in seven years. 455,000 tuned in to the second episode of The Masked Singer. The reveal had 605,000 viewers as Caterpiller took off its mask after singing Tones and I’s Cloudy Day, to reveal Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lisa Curry. Have You Been Paying Attention? welcomed Luke McGregor, Geraldine Hickey, and Kate Langbroek – and an ALDI sausage – to round out the night with 569,000 viewers.
On the ABC, 7.30 interviewed US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and covered John Barilaro‘s appearance at a parliamentary inquiry into his New York role for 477,000 viewers. Back Roads saw Lisa Millar pack the car and head off to French Island, VIC, alongside 485,000, before Four Corners told 356,000 the story of whistleblowers inside the UN.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was The Queen’s Guard: A Year In Service, which drew a crowd of 78,000.
