• Commonwealth Games draw a big crowd as Aussies smash records
• Hunted sees three more captures
• Beauty and the Geek brings in star power
• High drama games in both AFL and NRL
Total TV Ratings, July 24
This Is Your Life has kept its title of top non-news. Lifting 8%, an audience of 1,078,000 tuned in as Ian Thorpe went down memory lane ahead of the Commonwealth Games launch.
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Also cracking the 1 million mark was Hunted on 10 with 1,040,000 watching as the chase ended for Derek and Courtney, up 31%.
On the ABC, Joanna Lumley headed off to Rome with 783,000, up 16%.
Finally, Beauty and the Geek lifted 34%, bringing in 723,000 viewers.
Overnight TV Ratings, July 31
Primetime News
Seven News 1,033,000
Nine News 840,000
ABC News 551,000
10 News First 266,000 (5:30pm)/ 177,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 140,000 (6:30pm) 93,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 116,000
The Project 205,000 (6:30 pm)/304,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 286,000
Today 174,000
News Breakfast 158,000
Seven has won the night with a 27.7% primary share and a 37.5% network share. Topping the night for multichannles is 7mate with a 4.8% share.
The Commonwealth Games continued on Seven, with all the thrills and drama that audiences have come to expect. Day Three saw Australian swimming’s Awesome Foursome smash a world record in the pool, while Emma McKeon became the most successful Commonwealth Games athlete ever with her 11th gold medal. Outside of the pool, the Australian women’s Rugby Sevens team won gold, taking down Fiji 22-12, while para-cyclist Jess Gallagher and pilot Caitlin Ward won gold for the second time so far in these Games, winning the women’s tandem time trial.
Commonwealth Games Day Three Sessions:
Afternoon: 716,000
Night: 639,000
Day Two Highlights: 354,000
Late Night: 303,000
Earlier in the day for Seven, the Richmond Tigers pulled off a 42 point comeback against the Brisbane Lions, with 284,000 watching the rollercoaster game end 104-97.
On Nine’s 60 Minutes, 632,000 watched as the show asked if the increase of severe tics and Tourette’s syndrome-like behaviours in teenage girls is due to TikTok, and spoke to investigative journalist and author Tom Bower about Meghan Markle’s place in the royal family. Beauty and the Geek kicked off its final week, bringing in TikTok sensation Millie Ford to pump the energy up, before asking the couples what their future looked like outside of the show for 413,000 viewers. Social Media Murders rounded out the night with 188,000 watching the case of Alex Rodda.
Earlier in the day, 220,000 tuned in as the St George Illawarra Dragons were bested by the North Queensland Cowboys, holding on before a blowout in the final 15 minutes left the score at 8-34.
On 10, The Sunday Project (205,000 6:30pm / 304,000 7pm) covered the promised referendum on appointing an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and interviewed the siblings who have been reunited after 80 years apart thanks to a DNA test. As time starts to run out for the hunters, 492,000 tuned in as Hunted saw the capture of Nick, plus team Puneet and Kris. Five fugitives remain on the run.
Joanna Lumley took 493,000 ABC viewers to Berlin in Great Cities of the World, before Mystery Road: Origin continued with 305,000 tuning in.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Becoming Marilyn, which drew a crowd of 112,000.
