• MAFS final commitment ceremony blows away the competition
• Dancing with the Stars penultimate episode sends two celebs home
• Australian Survivor blows up tribal council
Total TV Ratings, March 13
Married at First Sight (MAFS) continues to dominate the total TV ratings with 2.12m viewers, increasing an already season-high overnight viewership by 42%. The episode featured the weekly commitment ceremony which saw Carolina and Dion, as well as Kate and Matt, leave the experiment. Tensions were at boiling point, however, when Carolina walked in with Daniel to reveal their affair and ask to remain in the experiment together, which prompted a mass walkout from the other couples. Ultimately the experts denied their request.
Dancing with the Stars: All Stars was the next best entertainment with 928,000 viewers, up 18%. The episode saw Sam Mac go home after judges didn’t jive with his routine.
Australian Survivor had 776,000, up 41% as the episode saw Jordie and KJ join Shay in purgatory.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 20
Primetime News
Nine News 838,000
Seven News 826,000
ABC News 561,000
10 News First 222,000 (5:00pm)/ 163,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 176,000 (6:30pm) 132,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 424,000
The Project 185,000 (6:30 pm)/265,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 217,000
Today 193,000
News Breakfast 174,000
Nine continues to dominate Sunday nights with another comfortable win, finishing with the #1 primary channel share (28.1%) and network share (35.1%) yet again. As per usual, the driving force was Married at First Sight (MAFS) which was the top program of the night with 1.063m viewers, the second-highest rating episode of the season.
MAFS was also #1 in all key demos as the fallout from the nude photo scandal continued. The episode saw the final commitment ceremony of the season with only Sam and Al choosing to leave the experiment. The couples will now move towards their final vows.
60 Minutes then followed with 592,000 viewers as the program featured a report from Mark Burrows about the foreign fighters picking up arms in Ukraine.
On Seven, Dancing with the Stars: All Stars had 491,000 viewers, down on last week’s 517,000 viewers. The penultimate episode saw Kylie Gillies and Anthony Koutoufides sent packing in the first double elimination of the season. Grant Denyer, Kris Smith and Ricki-Lee will now dance their way to the grand finale.
The final scores of the night were:
Grant Denyer and Lily Cornish – 49
Kylie Gillies and Aric Yegudkin – 42
Ricki-Lee and Jarryd Byrne – 41
Anthony Koutoufides and Jessica Raffa – 37
Kris Smith and Siobhan Power – 27
Crime Investigation Australia then had 365,000 as it explored the death of horse trainer George Brown.
On 10, The Sunday Project had 185,000 (6:30pm) and 265,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered Labor’s landside win in South Australia.
Australian Survivor then had 464,000 viewers, up on last week’s 416,000. The show was #2 in the 16-39 and 18-49 demos as KJ used a tribal council advantage to force three of the majority alliance to leave tribal, allowing the minority to vote out Jordan.
On the ABC, Grand Designs New Zealand had 387,000 viewers, before Aussie drama Troppo had 236,000 tune in.
The top non-news program on SBS was Baiae, the Atlantis of Rome with 115,000 viewers.
