• Gabe gives bad news on Home and Away
• The Dog House gives the warm and fuzzies
Total TV Ratings, February 15
Topping the night overall – again – Nine Married At First Sight (MAFS) lifted 67%, and came ver close to the 2 million mark. 1,913,000 watched the second dinner party of the season, where Harrison was once again the centre of a scandal after admitting he had gotten a woman’s phone number during a Groom’s night out in Bondi.
Home and Away began primetime for 921,000 Seven viewers, lifting 25%.
On the ABC, Hard Quiz was up 16% with 827,000 tuning in.
The Dog House Australia brought 502,000 to 10, up 15%.
Overnight TV Ratings, February 22
Primetime News
Seven News 821,000 (6:00pm) / 819,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 716,000 (6:00pm) / 730,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 554,000
10 News First 242,000 (5:00pm)/ 165,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 130,000 (6:30pm)/ 104,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 641,000
7.30 444,000
The Project 172,000 6:30pm / 243,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 216,000
Today 188,000
News Breakfast 159,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 28.2% and a network share of 36.4%. 10 Peach won multichannels with a 3.3% share.
A Current Affair told 641,000 Nine viewers about the youth crime crisis, and took a look at the Kathleen Folbigg case in light of an inquiry. The group turned on Claire and Adam when the Married At First Sight (MAFS) contestants sat down for this week’s dinner party. Topping the night overall, 925,000 watched as Adam revealed that he had slept with his wife Janelle after kissing Claire on a night out. Under Investigation followed with 367,000, uncovering why South Australia’s chief forensic officer was able to work for decades with hardly any qualifications.
On Seven, Home and Away had 471,000 tune in as Gabe struggled to give Mackenzie some bad news. A double header of Mrs Brown’s Boys brought the laughs for 261,000 and 227,000 respectively, before the All Sports edition of The Front Bar drew a crowd of 234,000.
7.30 covered the devastation in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle, and told 444,000 ABC viewers about water buybacks. Hard Quiz handed out the Big Brass Mug in front of 468,000, before The Weekly with Charlie Pickering saw 443,000 laugh along when Charlie was joined at the desk by Jimmy Carr.
10’s The Project (172,000 6:30pm / 243,000 7pm) asked security expert Neil Fergus about how spies are being used in Australia, and interviewed Richard Marx. The Dog House Australia then got 310,000 tongues wagging, before Law and Order rounded out primetime for 132,000.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was My Grandparents’ War with 76,000.
