• Two for the price of one: Will & Woody fired on Celeb Apprentice
Total TV Ratings, May 29
The Grand Finale for The Voice was the top entertainment program in the total TV ratings with an average audience of 1,388,000 tuning in, an increase of 19%. The winner’s announcement which saw Lachie Gill named the winner of the season, had 1,390,000 viewers.
MasterChef Australia was the #2 entertainment program and the top show for 10 with 799,000 viewers (up 22%). The episode saw Ali Stoner sent home from the competition.
Celebrity Apprentice had 675,000 viewers, an increase of 28%. The episode saw the teams challenged to record their own live-to-air 60-second infomercial, which resulted in Vince Colosimo being fired. Following the firing, it was revealed that the previously fired contestants would be returning as team redemption.
Overnight TV Ratings, June 5
Primetime News
Seven News 1,049,000
Nine News 899,000
ABC News 514,000
10 News First 243,000 (5:30pm)/ 197,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 189,000 (6:30pm) 109,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 417,000
The Project 251,000 (6:30 pm)/332,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 235,000
Today 196,000
News Breakfast 166,000
Seven enjoyed a comfortable win last night after securing a robust 31.9% primary channel share, alongside the top network share of the night as well with 38.9%. It is fair to assume that a large portion of this audience share was made up of fans of the royals, with The Platinum Party at the Palace being the top entertainment show of the evening with 825,000 viewers. A repeat of The Queen Unseen then followed with 317,000 viewers.
On Nine, Celebrity Apprentice Australia had 388,000 viewers as the program saw the celebs challenged to write and illustrate an original children’s book. The episode ended with Will and Woody falling on their sword and suggesting that they be the ones fired (to which Lord Sugar obliged).
Earlier in the day, Nine’s NRL coverage of the Canberra Raiders edging out the Sydney Roosters had 261,000 viewers, with 148,000 watching from Sydney.
MasterChef Australia was the top program for 10 last night with 504,000 tuning in as Marco Pierre White was back in the kitchen with Marco’s “Pantry Favourites” – extra virgin olive oil, chardonnay vinegar, red wine vinegar, brandy, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, capers, ketchup, honey, Dijon mustard, cornichons, tabasco sauce, red currant jelly and anchovies. The episode saw Harry go home after her whole baked flounder with herb butter sauce didn’t live up to expectations. The episode was the top entertainment show in all key demos and was also slightly up on last week’s 500,000 viewers.
On the ABC, Grand Designs had 382,000 viewers before Barons then had 115,000 viewers.
The top non-news program on SBS was Death in the Tower: King Richard with 103,000 viewers.
