Total TV Monday February 7
Married at First Sight was a star performer with a Total TV audience of 1,979,000 a week ago with the lift on overnight numbers 50%.
Also doing well was Home and Away with its Monday audience up 21% on the overnight to a Total TV audience of 1,073,000.
Nine’s La Brea also crept higher with the launch audience growing to 947,000.
Overnight TV ratings: Monday February 14, Week 8 2022
Primetime News
Seven News 1,012,000/981,000
Nine News 822,000/835,000
ABC News 615,000
10 News First 284,000 (5:00pm)/ 173,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 111,000 (6:30pm) 109,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 662,000
7.30 496,000
The Project 217,000 (6:30pm)/377,000 (7pm)
The Drum 140,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 258,000
Today 201,000
News Breakfast 189,000
Late News
Nine News Late 151,000
ABC Late News 61,000
SBS World News Late 58,000
Seven
Home and Away started a new week on 496,000 after an average last week of 498,000. It’s sobering to think that Seven’s drama could soon be the only commercial FTA TV drama that repeats year-after-year.
The final week of Winter Games coverage was underway with an audience of 578,00 early in the evening with most of them staying to the late session.
Earlier in the day Seven suspended coverage from Beijing to take viewers to Los Angeles for the Super Bowl where the Rams staged a last minute recovery to win the contest. The audience watching on Seven was 391,000 with over 130,000 watching in Melbourne and close to 100,000 in Sydney.
Nine
An A Current Affair investigation from Steve Marshall saw the reporter confront a building executive about staff complaints about the way they are being treated after being recruited to the company from overseas. The episode was on 652,000 after a M-F average of 603,000 last week.
It was the start of Intimacy Week on Married at First Sight with a very public yet seemingly heartfelt apology was delivered. There was also a bit of, um, intimacy. The episode attracted 837,000, Nine’s best for the night, outrating even the 6pm news hour around the metro markets.
The second episode of Nine’s “epic new drama” La Brea did 473,000 on debut and the audience coming back for more last night was 313,000.
10
At 7pm, The Project started its second half hour with an interview with Federal MP Zali Steggall who was grilled about some donations she has accepted. Later in the episode the program interviewed Mark Wahlberg. The result was 377,000 after an average of 326,000 across M-F last week.
There was quite a bit of reflection amongst the competitors on Australian Survivor after Sunday’s surprise vote at Tribal Council. The Monday episode had an audience of 496,000 after 500,000 a week ago.
ABC
After last week’s bombshell delivered by the 7.30 host Leigh Sales about her future, there will be fewer headlines about the program last night that started with an interview with Liberal Party MP Matt Kean. The audience was 496,000 after an average last week of 483,000.
Episode seven of series eight of Back Roads followed on 427,000 with guest presenter Kristy O’Brien in Charleville in south-west Queensland.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese was the focus on the Four Corners episode, The Contender part 2. After the Scott Morrison episode a week ago did 390,000, the episode last night was on 337,000.
Media Watch lifted the numbers and had an audience of 357,000 watching the second episode of the 33rd season of the program.
SBS
Heritage Rescue was in the Malvern Hills in the UK with 131,000 watching.
The Reformation as then the subject for the 131,000 viewers of the first episode of Royal History’s Myths and Secrets.
