• MAFS continues to dominate with intimacy week
• Blinde Side: Survivor chaos continues after tribe swap
Total TV Ratings, February 8
Married at First Sight (MAFS) continues to dominate the total TV ratings after a 51% increase on its overnight ratings saw it register 1.861m viewers. The episode kicked off confessions week, which saw Andrew tell Holly that he had sex with over 350 women, and Sam and Al participated in the first photo ranking exercise.
Home and Away was the top non-news program for Seven with 1.022m (up 24%), and Australian Survivor was the top show for 10 with 886,000, up 38%.
Overnight TV Ratings, February 15
Primetime News
Seven News 916,000/918,000
Nine News 779,000/795,000
ABC News 598,000
10 News First 275,000 (5:00pm)/ 177,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 132,000 (6:30pm) 113,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 643,000
7.30 498,000
The Project 232,000 (6:30pm)/357,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 149,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 249,000
News Breakfast 202,000
Today 199,000
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are coming close to its end, but the ratings aren’t slowing down for Seven after another strong performance. The coverage was hosted by Joh Griggs, Matt Shirvington, Emma Freedman, Hamish McLachlan and Abbey Gelmi and featured women’s snowboarding, men’s freeski, women’s figure skating, and men’s bobsleigh.
Beijing Winter Olympics Day 11:
Day: 264,000 (191,000 metro, 73,000 regional)
Afternoon: 319,000 (215,000 metro, 104,000 regional)
Evening: 615,000 (409,000 metro, 206,000 regional
Night: 622,000 (419,000 metro, 203,000 regional)
Late: 525,000 (384,000 metro, 141,000 regional)
Seven
Seven and Nine shared the #1 primary channel after both received a 22.% share, but Seven was able to claim the #1 network share with 32.4%.
Home and Away continues to perform well sandwiched between the Winter Olympics, bringing in 493,000 viewers.
Nine
Married at First Sight (MAFS) was once again the top non-news program for the evening with 827,000 viewers, and was also #1 in all key demos. However, this was down week-on-week following last Tuesday’s 913,000 viewers.
The episode saw intimacy week continue, but the tasks assigned by Alessandra only led to worse tensions between Holly and Andrew.
The Hundred with Andy Lee then had 361,000 viewers which was down on its season launch of 450,000 last week. The episode saw Mike Goldstein, Tom Gleeson, and Becky Lucas on the panel, and a special appearance by Mick Molloy.
10
The Project had 232,000 (6:30pm) and 357,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the nurses strike.
Australian Survivor had 438,000 viewers as Amy was blindsided by her former alliance of Josh and Jordan after her game never recovered following the tribe swap.
ABC
Outback Ringer had 241,000 viewers before Catalyst had 160,000.
SBS
Who Do You Think You Are? was the top program on SBS with 189,000 viewers. The episode followed Jodie Whittaker.
