• MasterChef finals week kicks off as the kitchen is down to five chefs
Primetime News
Seven News 1,185,000/1,137,000
Nine News 1,108,000/1,056,000
ABC News 767,000
10 News First 442,000 (5:00pm)/ 307,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 182,000 (6:30pm) 162,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 805,000
7.30 721,000
The Project 334,000 (6:30pm)/482,000 (7pm)
The Drum 213,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 259,000
Today 226,000
News Breakfast 188,000
Late News
The Latest 110,000
Nine News Late Edition 105,000
ABC Late News 102,000
SBS World News Late 48,000
Nine
Nine was the top primary channel (21.1%) and network (31.2%) last night thanks to a combination of Nine News, Australian Ninja Warrior and Wimbledon.
Night one of the Ninja Warrior Grand Final had 709,000 viewers as it held off Farmer Wants a Wife to be the top non-news program.
The night saw ‘Flashlin’ Ashlin Herbert set the bar with a blistering run, while fan favourites such as Nathan Ryles, Sam Goodall, and Jack Wilson were unable to make it the second night of the Grand Final.
Emergency then followed with 340,000 viewers.
Footy Classified had 102,000 while 100% Footy had 88,000.
9Gem powered its way to the #1 multichannel last night thanks to Ash Barty‘s Wimbledon performance that saw her be the first Aussie woman in the quarter-final since the year 2000. 243,000 tuned in for the late-night programming of Wimbledon.
Seven
Home and Away had 645,000 viewers, with the Aussie soap then followed by Farmer Wants a Wife.
Farmer Wants a Wife‘s second episode had 697,000 as it took each of the farmer’s five women and the viewers to the farms for the first time.
However, five of the women got a head start with each of them having a 24-hour date with their farmer before the other four girls arrived.
The Farmers received a letter explaining they must ask one of the ladies to leave if they didn’t feel connected with her, leading Farmer Will to ask Tammy to leave. “This is so ridiculously hard for me. That’s why I can’t even make eye contact. You have done absolutely nothing wrong. You’re wonderful,” he told her.
“Every one of the ladies is keen to have a family one day. They’re at an advantage because they’re a lot younger than me. That might be a decider for him,” mused Tammy on her departure.
10
The Project had 334,000 (6:30) and 482,000 (7:00) as the show discussed if Sydney should brace for a longer lockdown, and the superannuation experiment shocking millennials.
MasterChef Australia had 626,000 viewers as finals week got underway as the top six competed in a service challenge at Martin Benn’s new fine dining restaurant, Society. They each had to prepare a course with a feature ingredient chosen by Benn.
Sabina was the one to go home after Benn had assigned her macadamia. The curd in her dish was lovely, but the judges agreed that they didn’t like the raw macadamia flavour of her ice cream.
Have You Been Paying Attention? had 657,000 and was #1 in the 16-39 and 18-49 key demos. The show featured Denise Scott making her season debut and was joined by fellow fresh face Andy Lee, and Celia Pacquola, Lloyd Langford and Ed Kavalee.
ABC
Courtney Act’s One on One featured Nat’s What I Reckon as the pair shared a meal in the kitchen and discussed his thoughts on religious dogma, mental health struggles, and losing half a lung. The episode had 392,000 viewers.
Four Corners (419,000) and Mediawatch (440,000) then followed.
SBS
The top two non-news programs on SBS last night were a repeat of Secrets of the Tower of London with 177,000 and Secret Scotland with 153,000.
