• The Project’s Georgie Tunny interviewed F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo
Total TV Ratings, March 23
810,000 watched Seven’s Home and Away as Tane and Felicity prepared for their wedding day and Eden pushed Remi to be with Bree, up 36%.
Then, lifting by a 37% rise was 10’s Gogglebox Australia, with 641,000 watching as the couch warmers critiqued The Repair Shop UK, Dinosaur, Tulsa King, Physical 100, Seven’s Australian Idol and Sarah Marie and Matty Fahd’s adorable son Malik “hustled” Jad out of $50!
Nine’s NRL Thursday Night Footy lifted 12%, with 640,000 watching as the Parramatta Eeels took on reining champs Penrith Panthers in a clash that saw the Eeels take the win by one point.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 30
Primetime News
Seven News 779,000 (6:00pm) / 760,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 660,000 (6:00pm) / 638,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 520,000
10 News First 207,000 (5:00pm)/ 139,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 127,000 (6:30pm)/ 98,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 417,000
7.30 402,000
The Project 158,000 6:30pm / 219,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 211,000
Today 192,000
News Breakfast 147,000
Seven has won the night with a primary share of 22.6% and a network share of 32.6%. 7Two has won multichannels with a 3.9% share.
352,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away. Rose hunted down Xander’s attacker, while Marilyn needed to get rich and quickly, and Justin prepared for the worst. Then the Western Bulldogs took on the Brisbane Lions in the AFL. 401,000 saw the Bulldogs beat the Lions 10.7 (67) to 7.11 (53), with fans devastated over the loss. Brisbane coach Chris Fagan said his side lacked polish and an inability to handle “finals-like” pressure.
Nine’s A Current Affair (417,000) investigated the estranged wife of one of Australia’s most dominant Union leaders, John Setka, who has been charged with trying to obtain a gun to shoot her husband, while the program also explored a number of small and medium Aussie businesses who feel defeated as the average cost of energy continues to skyrocket across the country. 339,000 tuned in to NRL Thursday Night Footy, watching as the Sydney Roosters and the Parramatta Eels faced-off in Round 5 of the NRL Telstra Premiership. The Roosters beat the Eeels, 28-20.
On 10, The Project’s (158,000 6:30pm / 219,000 7pm) Georgie Tunny interviewed Daniel Ricciardo and investigated the massive coronal hole — which is twenty times the size of earth — that has developed on the sun. Scientists warned we’d feel its effects today (Friday, March 31) with astrophysicist Alan Duffy revealing just how worried we should be. The show also met a mother who has been forced to sleep in a tent with her four children while waiting for assistance, as hundreds of thousands of Australians face homelessness right now. Then, on Gogglebox Australia, our favourite couch critics watched Married at First Sight, Ted Lasso, the Australian Survivor finale, Selling Houses Australia, The Swap and Best In Dough. Once again, Malik Fahd delivered the cutest line of the night with his rendition of “mama mia”! 368,000 tuned in.
402,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explored the one of the biggest US bank failures in history and interviewed F1 driver Oscar Piastri, who is headed into his first Australian Grand Prix. Sarah Ferguson also interviewed actor Russell Crowe. Then, On Grand Designs: The Streets, 208,000 households watched as Leah and Craig, who have sacrificed permanence in their lives, prepare to build a house that’s all their own while Kevin met Jitinder, who was building his own Hollywood Hills-style bachelor pad.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Dinosaur – with Stephen Fry. This week, Stephen Fry explored forests that 68 million years ago – in the Late Cretaceous period – were home to the deadliest of all dinosaur predators, the awesome T-Rex. 84,000 watched as Fry observed how this beast was both an efficient scavenger and cunning hunter!
