Monday Week 31 2019
• Nine secures Monday victory as 1.34m watch Ninja Charlie win
• After a long week of MasterChef drama, it infiltrated Q&A too
• Seven News 1,101,000/1,024,000
• Nine News 927,000/953,000
• A Current Affair 885,000
• ABC News 678,000
• 7.30 615,000
• The Project 279,000/496,000
• 10 News First 367,000
• The Drum 202,000
• SBS World News 145,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 248,000
• Today 210,000
Seven
Home And Away’s week 30 average was 621,000, down from 648,000 the previous week. Meantime it has started week 31 on 707,000.
The second night of Australia’s Got Talent saw it going head-to-head with the grand final of Ninja Warrior. Subsequently the numbers dropped from its opening night of 814,000 to 630,000.
Two episodes of S.W.A.T. then did 340,000 and 256,000.
Nine
A Current Affair started its week with a great story on the Chappell brothers, reuniting with reporter Dan Nolan to talk about Ian’s health challenge with skin cancer. The episode did 885,000, easily winning the timeslot. The program’s week 30 average was 721,000, close to the previous week’s 722,000.
It was then time for the 2019 final episode of Australian Ninja Warrior with 11 competitors in the hunt for the cash. Nobody managed to finish the course, let along attempt to climb Mount Midoriyama. The four best competitors all came unstuck at the floating doors. The winner was then judged on time, with Charlie Robbins getting there the quickest. The episode became the third to crack 1m viewers this season. The final had 1.22m watching the first part of the action, with 1.34m watching when Nine hosts Rebecca Maddern and Ben Fordham revealed the winner. The numbers watching managed to grow last year’s audience of 1.08m and 1.12m.
Melbourne viewers then got Footy Classified with 194,000 watching at different times across the network, with 125,000 in Melbourne.
Some audiences saw a Robert Penfold special called Events That Changed The World: A Foreign Affair with Nine’s US bureau chief remembering key stories he has covered over the years. The show did 221,000 with 131,000 in Sydney.
10
The Project started its weeknight run on 496,000. The 7pm weekly average for the past two weeks were 466,000 and 475,000. Bryan Brown was a guest in the studio.
The athletes alliance fell apart again for a second night warning of the dangers of trying to get too clever too early in a series of Survivor. Steve Bradbury made a big mistake taking on AFLW player Abbey. He narrowly dodged a bullet though as the Champions, who again lost immunity, decided to target Nova who was voted out. The episode managed to climb to 655,000 after 562,000 on Sunday.
Have You Been Paying Attention? grabbed 10’s biggest audience with 673,000 as Amanda Keller, Kitty Flanagan and Mick Molloy joined Ed and Sam. Guest quizmasters included Sam Neill.
A repeat Arj Barker special then did 182,000.
ABC
Back Roads was in the Flinders Rangers with 637,000 watching.
Four Corners then profiled Julian Assange with part two of a report from Michael Brissenden. The audience was 453,000 after 505,000 watched part one.
Media Watch was on 449,000 followed by Q&A on 315,000. After a long week of MasterChef drama, there was no escaping it even on Q&A.
SBS
Secrets Of The Royal Servants pulled the biggest metro audience for the channel with 216,000.
24 Hours In Emergency followed with 196,000.
