• The Chase continues new era with huge ratings
• The Bachelor drama: Jay defies the girl code
Primetime News
Seven News 1,368,000/1,280,000
Nine News 1,100,000/995,000
ABC News 693,000
10 News First 428,000 (5:00pm)/ 269,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 136,000 (6:30pm) 104,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
7.30 495,000
The Project 297,000 (6:30pm)/398,000 (7pm)
The Drum 187,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 343,000
Today 235,000
News Breakfast 191,000
Late News
Nine News Late Edition 82,000
ABC Late News 62,000
Seven
A golden run continues for Seven with its Olympics coverage continuing to deliver wins across the board with the top primary channel (35.9%) and network (52.3%) along with 7mate (11.2%) being the #1 multichannel last night.
The gold rush came for the Australians early in the day with the Aussies picking up two golds in the rowing before Ariarne Titmus won the 200m freestyle.
Olympics Tokyo 2020 segment TV ratings:
Night: 1,364,000
Evening: 1,276,000
Afternoon: 1,046,000
Late Afternoon: 699,000
Morning: 647,000
Late Night: 633,000
Larry Emdur is continuing a strong start to his new era of The Chase Australia with 729,000 tuning in which was the second-best rating show of the year, after his debut episode.
Nine
A Current Affair had 671,000 as the show covered the effects of the lockdown on the construction industry.
Nine aired a repeat of Travel Guides last night which took 454,000 viewers on a European cruise spanning three countries along the Danube River, sailing through Germany, Austria and Hungary.
This was followed by Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde with 184,000 viewers.
10
The Project had 297,000 (6:30pm) and 398,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered Sydney’s extended lockdown.
The Bachelor had 360,000 viewers as the girl code was laid out but Jay failed to decipher it in time sending the mansion into chaos. And Chanel and Maddison went home.
ABC
A repeat of Hard Quiz brought in 412,000 viewers and was followed by Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell with 436,000 as the show discussed the vaccine rollout and the anti-lockdown protests.
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS last night was Charles and Diana: 1983 with 99,000.
