• Joanna Lumley packs her bags for Rome
• Beauty and the Geek takes off
• 60 Mins investigates JonBenét Ramsey
• NRL stirs up controversy with one point win for the Cowboys
Primetime News
Seven News 933,000
Nine News 848,000
ABC News 559,000
10 News First 231,000 (5:30pm)/ 176,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 185,000 (6:30pm) 148,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 371,000
The Project 235,000 (6:30 pm)/325,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 205,000
Today 172,000
News Breakfast 150,000
Seven has won the night with a 21.9% primary share and a 30.5% network share. Topping the night for multichannels was 7mate with a 4.5% share.
Seven jumped off the starting block with its new series of This Is Your Life. 655,000 tuned in as host Mel Doyle cracked open the Big Red Book with Ian Thorpe ahead of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. 7News Spotlight followed, with 316,000 watching swimming sensations Emma McKeon and Cody Simpson as they opened up for the first time about their lives and their relationship.
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Earlier in the day, Carlton Blues beat the GWS Giants 90-54, with the AFL drawing a crowd of 322,000.
Nine kicked off its Sunday evening with a bumper episode of 60 Minutes, covering the cost of living crisis before diving deep into the murder of 6yo child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. With JonBenét’s father, John Ramsey, petitioning the Governor of Colorado to test DNA samples that the local police have, 612,000 watched as the show asked why the tests hadn’t gone ahead. Beauty and the Geek took off, with 392,000 watching as the pairs had their communication tested when they tried to land a 737 flight simulation plane. Social Media Murders rounded out the night with 216,000 tuning in for the story of Molly McLaren.
Earlier in the day, 216,000 watched the NRL as the North Queensland Cowboys took a one point win over the Wests Tigers after the siren, in one of the most controversial endings the game has seen.
On 10, The Sunday Project (235,000 6:30pm / 325,000 7pm) got down and dirty, covering the Splendour In The Grass festival that has made headlines for being more mud than grass, and interviewed Hunted’s Deputy of Operations Reece Dewar about the chase. Hunted then continued its hot streak, with 550,000 watching as the chase ended for Derek and Courtney.
Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World took 474,000 to Rome for the ABC, before Mystery Road: Origin continued with 302,000 viewers.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was London’s Super Tunnel, which had 133,000 tune in.
