• Retired nuns find furry friends on The Dog House
Total TV Ratings, February 22
Lifting 65% and topping the night overall, 2,029,000 watched Married At First Sight (MAFS) as Adam revealed that he had slept with his wife Janelle after kissing Claire on a night out. This marks the highest viewership of the season so far.
Hard Quiz gave away the Big Brass Mug in front of 866,000 ABC viewers, lifting 21%.
The Dog House was up 18% on 10, warming 496,000 hearts.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 1
Primetime News
Seven News 789,000 (6:00pm) / 779,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 707,000 (6:00pm) / 696,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 544,000
10 News First 230,000 (5:00pm)/ 165,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 130,000 (6:30pm)/ 147,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 547,000
7.30 422,000
The Project 156,000 6:30pm / 231,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 213,000
Today 175,000
News Breakfast 135,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 28.1% and a network share of 36.3%. 7Two and 9Gem tied to win multichannels for the night with a 3.1% share.
Nine’s A Current Affair was broadcast broadcast live from Olivia Newton-John’s special garden to remember her life and legacy, before telling 547,000 the story of a woman fighting a brain tumour and an insurance company. As Married At First Sight (MAFS) reaches its halfway point, the participants set the table for another Dinner Party. Topping the night overall and inching ever closer to 1m metro viewers, 921,000 watched as the fallout from the pocket-dial became the centre of the conversation, with Evelyn confronting the grooms about what she overheard on their night out. Under Investigation then covered the 1988 disappearance of the Patanela, the ghost ship that was found 16kms off the Sydney coast, for 346,000 viewers.
Rose was grilled by Mali’s sister on Home and Away, bringing 459,000 viewers to Seven. A double header of Mrs. Brown’s Boys had 238,000 and 228,000 viewers respectively, before an All Sports edition of The Front Bar brought the laughs for 236,000.
The ABC’s 7.30 covered allegations of pork barrelling by the NSW government, and interviewed Independent MP Allegra Spender for 422,000. Monsters Inc, Frida Kahlo, pugs, and Australian currency were the topics on Hard Quiz, with 480,000 watching the contestants battle it out before 398,000 watched Rhys Nicholson send up This Is Your Life with Derryn Hinch on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.
On 10, The Project (156,000 6:30pm / 231,000 7pm) covered World Compliment Day, before interviewing musicians Budjerah and Macklemore. The Dog House Australia then got 298,000 tails wagging, following retired nuns Margaret and Antoinette as they looked to find their final furry companion.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Military Strongholds: Megastructures Of Genius with 69,000.
