• Another contestant was eliminated from MasterChef Australia
Total TV Ratings, June 4
It was the Grand Finale of Nine’s The Summit which saw Isaac Compton, Lulu Hawton and Brooke Kilowsky take a share of the $490k prize money. 849,000 tuned in, up 25%. The winner announcement saw 882,000, up 23%.
Lifting by a 27% rise was 10’s MasterChef Australia and the final day of Nostalgia Week. 832,000 tuned in to watch another elimination cook. Robbie Cooper’s curried sausages didn’t pay off and the fan favourite was eliminated from the competition.
On Seven’s The Secrets of Prince Andrew, 548,000 tuned in as the instalment told the inside story of how Jeffery Epstein’s death prompted Prince Andrew to take part in a BBC interview so disastrous he was stripped of his Royal titles. Lifting 14%.
Overnight TV Ratings, June 11
Primetime News
Seven News 842,000
Nine News 799,000
ABC News 463,000
10 News First 190,000 (5:00pm)/ 164,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 140,000 (6:30pm)/ 98,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
60 Minutes 511,000
The Sunday Project 175,000 (6:30pm) / 245,000 (7pm)
Insiders 338,000
Breakfast TV
Weekend Sunrise 228,000
Weekend Today 147,000
Weekend Breakfast 148,000
Seven won Sunday night with a primary share of 23.8% and a network share of 37.0%. 7Two has won multi channels with a 3.1% share.
There was no 7News Spotlight on Seven last night as the ICC World Cup continued with the final of Australia vs India. 524,000 tuned in to see the first session of the game, 508,000 watched the Lunch Break and 107,000 stayed on for the second half of the match. Our home side became World Test Championship winners for the ninth time as India was bowled out for 234 and defeated by 209 runs overall. “Ask anyone in the change-room, this is our favourite format,” skipper Pat Cummins said in the changeroom. “When you win it’s the format you get the most satisfaction from.”
Meanwhile, the Carlton Blues took on the Essendon Bombers in the AFL. The Bombers beat the Blues 13.8 (86) to 6.16 (52) in front of 339,000 viewers.
Nine’s 60 Minutes (511,000) investigated the massive $7 trillion ‘wellness’ industry which is well and truly booming, but questions are being raised over whether devotees are really getting their money’s worth. The series also detailed Prince Harry’s tough week, which has seen him being grilled in a London court about his miserable life as a target of the British tabloids. 237,000 then stayed on to watch the life of Freddie Mercury played by Rami Malek in the biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody.
Earlier in the afternoon, the Melbourne Storm took on the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL. The Storm thumped the Sharks 54 – 10, in front of 254,000.
On 10, The Sunday Project (175,000 (6:30pm) / 245,000 (7pm) ) welcomed WSFM and media personality Brendan “Jonesy” Jones to the desk while also looking at the housing crisis which is seeing a rise in the ‘Boomerang Generation’ a.k.a adults who have been forced to move back in with their parents, sometimes decades after they first moved out. Then, on MasterChef Australia, 397,000 tuned into an elimination cook where Rick Stein kicked off round one by tasking contestants to prepare a dish to hero fresh squid in 45 minutes. The second cook saw contestants choosing from five of Stein’s favourite food destinations: France, Spain, the UK, Mexico or Italy. Ultimately, Phil Conway’s Spaghetti Con Anatra failed to hit the mark and he became the seventh eliminated contestant.
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152,000 tuned into ABC’s Compass where a diverse group of young people learn to sail a Tall Ship before 299,000 watched Designing a Legacy. During the episode, host Tim Ross looked at how architecture can help bring us together in a world where we increasingly seem divided. Silent Witness followed with 263,000 tuning in.
Earlier, 563,000 tuned in for a repeat of Bluey, where Bluey couldn’t get to sleep. While Mum reads her one last story; they are interrupted by Unicorse, the most annoying hand puppet in the world, who Bluey tries to reform. So cute!
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was The Kingdom where Walkley award-winning journalist Marc Fennell returns to the world of Pentecostal religion after running away 17 years ago. The deeply personal documentary investigated how Australia produced one of the world’s most successful and scandal-plagued megachurches, Hillsong. 116,000 tuned in.