• The Dog House introduces Cookie
• Back In Time For The Corner Shop goes back to the 1970s
Total TV Ratings, March 21
Homestays Week is notorious for making or breaking couples on Married At First Sight (MAFS), and this year’s season was no different. Up 54%, 1,824,000 watched as Bronte‘s sister fought with Harrison, and Melinda and Layton got into a major tiff over a cupboard door being left open.
Lifting 29%, there was trouble for the Ferrones on Back In Time For The Corner Shop. 681,000 watched the family work through the 1950s and ’60s and keep an out for what was over the horizon: supermarkets.
Seven’s We Interrupt This Broadcast lifted 17%, making a mockery of popular TV shows for 510,000.
The Dog House Australia worked to find a home for high-energy kelpie, Tess, and paired Lolla with tai chi instructor Amanda for 496,000, up 14%.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 28
Primetime News
Seven News 854,000 (6:00pm) / 851,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 715,000 (6:00pm) / 741,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 573,000
10 News First 205,000 (5:00pm)/ 129,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 118,000 (6:30pm)/ 92,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 636,000
7.30 429,000
The Project 164,000 (6:30 pm)/ 251,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 209,000
Today 188,000
News Breakfast 139,000
Nine has won Tuesday night with a primary share of 21.9% and a network share of 29.1%. 7Two topped multichannels with a 4.1% share.
Nine’s A Current Affair gave 636,000 viewers an update after Robert Smith, who has served 10 years for the death of 6yo Kiesha Abrahams, walked free from prison. The Hundreed with Andy Lee then took the pulse of the nation – warts and all – for 441,000 viewers, with a repeat of Travel Guides wrapping up the night in South Korea for 377,000.
Eden’s engagement prank backfired on Home and Away, with Seven bringing in 446,000 viewers. We Interrupt This Broadcast continued to skewer people’s favourite shows, bringing in an audience of 272,000.
Earlier in the evening, The Chase topped non-news for the night with 480,000 tuning in.
The ABC’s 7.30 looked at the climate policy that Labor and the Greens are working on, and told 429,000 about record-breaking floods in remote north west Queensland. Back In Time For The Corner Shop crashed into the 1970s alongside 335,000, with the Ferrone’s humble cornerstore slowly transforming into mixed business convenience store. A repeat of The Princess and the Press followed for 166,000.
On 10, The Project (164,000 6:30pm / 251,000 7pm) looked into the move to boost teacher numbers across NSW, and interviewed comedian Urzila Carlson. The Dog House Australia introduced energetic puppy, Cookie, to dancers Ash and Mike, bringing 365,000 along to the shelter.
On 10 Bold, 133,000 watched the Socceroos go down 2-1 to Ecuador at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium.
The highest ratings show on SBS was Who Do You Think You Are? USA, giving 123,000 a look at the life of supermodel Cindy Crawford.