• Four Corners swapped out Scott Morrison story for Ghosts of Afghanistan
Primetime News
Seven News 1,119,000 (6 pm)/ 1,074,000 (6:30 pm)
Nine News is 1,106,000 (6 pm)/ 1,049,000 (6:30 pm)
ABC News 685,000
10 News First 442,000(5 pm)/ 297,000 (6pm)
SBS World News 197,000 (6:30 pm)/156,000 (7 pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 807,000
7:30 604,000
The Project 339,000 (6:30 pm)/551,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 184,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 247,000
Today 209,000
News Breakfast 155,000
Nine
Celebrity Apprentice had 609,000 viewers last night as the episode opened with the reveal of Martha Kalifatidis‘s secret power by Lord Sugar, that she would be able to swap out a member of her team ahead of the next challenge.
After advice from the recently eliminated David Genat, she chose to bring in Josh Gibson and trade out Shaynna Blaze.
The teams were tasked with a pop-up marketing challenge for the Aussie company Koala, with a display cube and a piece of Koala furniture positioned in a very busy shopping centre.
With Fun-Raisers scoring 82 points and Momentum earning 53, project manager Camilla Franks won $20,000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation, leaving Ross Noble, Scherri-Lee Biggs and Shaynna Blaze facing elimination. Biggs was eventually chosen to go home after failing to bring in enough customers.
Nine then took 304,000 viewers to Royal Melbourne Hospital for Emergency as the show continues its second season.
Sports programming followed with Footy Classified (125,000) and 100% Footy (59,000) airing across the different NRL and AFL markets.
Seven
Seven was the top primary channel last night with a 19.3% share and was also the top network with 28.0%. This was thanks in part to Home and Away (593,000) and Big Brother (620,00) which were the broadcasters top non-news shows.
On Big Brother, SJ and Danny relished their new powers as the other housemates had to overcome their greatest fear or weakness to earn an invite to the heads’ VIP cocktail party.
Adriana, Tilly and Marley won a ticket and luxuriated in the cave, while Danny used the time to cut a deal, willing to sacrifice members of his own alliance to gain Marley’s trust.
In the nominations challenge, Danny and SJ watched on as Marley held steady to win the power.
Marley nominated Ari and Christina with Mary as a safe vote, but the opportunity to strike was too good for Danny and SJ.
“I just got blindsided, they gunned the mob mum down,” said Mary. “I didn’t even say goodbye to Marley, I just said thank you. What can I say! It’s been 50 days, it’s been amazing, it’s been incredible but the feeling of getting blindsided is definitely not.”
10
The Project had 339,000 (6:30 pm) and 551,000 (7 pm) viewers as the show discussed new Covid cases in Victoria, The Logan Paul v Floyd Mayweather fight, and how a speech pathologist taught her dog to communicate.
On MasterChef, road trip week kicked off as the show took 615,000 viewers to Apollo Bay, the southern rock lobster – or crayfish – capital of Australia.
The contestants had to prepare two dishes in teams of two: one dish that is familiar and one that is inventive, but both made with crayfish.
Tommy and Kishwar won the challenge, meaning that it’s Minoli, Sabina, Linda and Amir in tonight’s elimination cook.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed and continued its strong run in 2021 once again being the top non-news show of the night with 709,000 viewers, and also topping all key demos.
The episode featured the debut of Alex Ward who appeared alongside Tim McDonald, Celia Pacquola, Pang and Ed Kavalee.
ABC
The controversial episode of Four Corners based on Scott Morrison’s connections with a QAnon member did not air last night after being delayed instead 385,000 tuned in as the show aired an episode on the Ghosts of Afghanistan. Former war correspondent Graeme Smith travelled back through the cities and provinces of Afghanistan twenty years after the 9/11 terror attacks to try and make sense of the conflict to try and make sense of the conflict.
SBS
On SBS the top non-news program was Secret Scotland with 202,000 viewers.
