• Both viewers and The Blues down YOY in State of Origin
• MasterChef’s Julie tackles the ‘death dish’
• Big Brother breaks alliances in dramatic elimination
Total TV Ratings: June 1
Home and Away took the title of top non-news in the total TV ratings, lifting 22% to bring in an audience of 994,000.
On the ABC, Hard Quiz lifted 13% with a total audience of 940,000, and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering lifted 11% with an audience of 833,000.
For the commercial channels, the MasterChef cooks left the kitchen, heading to the Van Gogh exhibit in The Lume, Melbourne for 822,000, lifting 21%. Big Brother lifted 51%, with 729,000 watching Lulu get evicted. Celebrity Apprentice saw the celebrities run their own liquidation sale, lifting 25% for a total audience of 716,000.
Overnight TV Ratings: June 8
Primetime News
Seven News 968,000/927,000
Nine News 864,000/843,000
ABC News 6599,000
10 News First 295,000 (5:00pm)/ 218,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 157,000 (6:30pm)/151,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current affairs
7.30 489,000
The Project 257,000 (6:30pm)/ 404,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 190,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 225,000
Today 191,000
News Breakfast 165,000
Late News
Nine News Late 148,000
The Latest 48,000
ABC Late News 107,000
Nine has very comfortably won the night with a primary share of 40.0% and a network share of 47.6%. Taking the title for multichannles was 9Gem with a 2.9% share.
The driver of Nine’s win was the State of Origin Game One. Kicking off the series in Sydney’s Accor stadium, a crowd of just over 80,500 people braved the single-digit temperatures to cheer on the New South Wales Blues. The handful of Queensland Maroons supporters in the crowd came out with more to cheer about, however, with the Blues going down to the visitors 10 – 16.
1,771,000 tuned in to the match, which was down on last year’s State of Origin Game One viewership of 1,911,000.
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On Seven, Home and Away drew a crowd of 440,000, before Big Brother saw the housemates lose their fourth Panic Room task in a row and face a snap eviction. 255,000 watched as Tim did a deal with enemies Aleisha and Johnson to break away from the OG alliance and vote Gabbie out. For those who prefer AFL to NRL, The Front Bar had 229,000 tune in.
The Project (257,000 6:30pm / 404,000 7pm) kicked off the night for 10, interviewing musician George Ezra and covered the medical trial that saw patients with advanced rectal cancer all go into remission after taking the same drug. MasterChef brought 437,000 into the kitchen as Julie attempted MasterChef’s cursed ‘death dish’ – risotto – and the Japanese team won victory, heading into the Immunity Challenge.
The ABC started its night with 7.30, covering the latest interest rate hike and China continuing to expand its military presence in the region for 489,000 viewers. The ABC Wednesday night comedy line up kicked off with the new season of Gruen, which tried to pitch the idea of eating koalas to 491,000 viewers. The Weekly with Charlie Pickering had 451,000 tune in, before You Can’t Ask That sat down with gay men for an audience of 253,000.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Tony Robinson: WWII By Drone which had 128,000 tune in.
