• Tennis audience again pushes Gem higher to #1 multichannel
Primetime News
Seven News 1,181,000/1,122,000
Nine News 1,174,000/1,062,000
ABC News 768,000
10 News First 462,000 (5:00pm)/ 282,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 178,000 (6:30pm) 135,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 739,000
7.30 656,000
The Project 324,000 (6:30pm)/533,000 (7pm)
The Drum 196,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 264,000
Today 236,000
News Breakfast 209,000
Late News
The Latest 288,000
Nine News Late Edition 117,000
Seven
After two nights close to 650,000 Home and Away was on 634,000.
An hour of Highway Patrol followed on 352,000 at 7.30pm, climbing to 430,000 after 8pm.
AFL markets then got an episode of The Front Bar with 336,000 watching, 222,000 of them in Melbourne. Gary Ayres was a guest in the Bar with Andy Lee again in for Sam Pang.
The movie Aquaman started at 8.30pm in Sydney and Brisbane with 110,000 across the two markets.
Nine
The confusion surrounding the suitability of AstraZeneca for people under 60 was examined first on A Current Affair. After two huge nights over 800,000, the audience backed off a little to 739,000.
The second night of semi finals and the end of the second week for Australian Ninja Warrior. An audience of 615,000 were watching Rebecca, Ben, Shane and Nick. Viewers to Stan Sport last night could also have seen Nick Kyrgios also at work at Wimbledon after his delayed match was completed successfully.
On the midweek instalment of Footy Classified the Eddie McGuire-hosted episode found an audience of 63,000 – 43,000 in Melbourne. It didn’t air in Melbourne until nearly two hours after The Front Bar.
10
Depinder was a guest on The Project talking about her departure from MasterChef just before 7pm. The show is on a roll this week with a third 500,000+ audience with the best number so far on the three weeknights – 533,000.
After a quick two-day NT trip the remaining contestants were back in the MasterChef kitchen where they had to work on all seven ingredients in a mystery box challenge. Tommy didn’t do a great job, but luckily for him it wasn’t an elimination challenge. The winners were Justin, Elise and Linda who go on to compete for the final immunity pin on offer this series. The audience of 616,000 saw it just 1,000 viewers ahead of Ninja Warrior.
Lisa Wilkinson hosted a doco about people reluctant to get a jab called The Anti-Vax Conspiracy at 8.40pm. Wilkinson was probing behind an international movement to stop people safeguarding themselves against Covid-19 for the audience of 294,000.
An episode of Bull followed on 141,000.
ABC
Covid again dominated most of 7.30 with host Laura Tingle telling the 656,000 viewers about the who’s who that said no to appearing on the show last night. The busy Dr Norman Swan made it though, just after he spent 30 minutes on ABC Radio Sydney with Richard Glover.
The second episode of Win the Week followed with guest contestants Annabel Crabb and Mark Humphries. After launching with 490,000 last week, the second episode lurched to 405,000.
Starstruck followed with 243,000 after 258,000 for the launch episode.
Episode three of the second series of Superwog was then on 121,000.
Adam Hills: The Last Leg had an audience of 93,000.
SBS
Tony Robinson was in Liverpool for his series Britain’s Great Cathedrals with 163,000 watching.
Coverage of the Tour de France Stage 5 started in the studio and then moved to the course with 138,000 watching.
