• The Project welcomed Weird Al Yankovich to the desk.
Total TV Ratings, March 2
7’s Home and Away saw 881,000 watching Felicity’s strong façade crumbled, Bree worried that Remi’s musical return was premature, and Bella feared saying goodbye to Nikau again, lifting 28%.
Next was Nine’s first night of the NRL, which saw 756,000 tune in to watch the Paramatta Eels take on the Melbourne Storm. The Storm beat the Eeels in golden point, 16-12, lifting 12%.
Then on 10, 747,000 watched our favourite couch critics on Gogglebox as they critiqued Paramount+’s Last King of the Cross, Queerstralia presented by Zoë Coombs Marr and Would I Lie to You? Lifting by 39%.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 9
Primetime News
Seven News 718,000 (6:00pm) / 721,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 649,000 (6:00pm) / 640,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 517,000
10 News First 209,000 (5:00pm)/ 153,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 114,000 (6:30pm)/ 93,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 379,000
7.30 387,000
The Project 157,000 6:30pm / 227,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 207,000
Today 189,000
News Breakfast 153,000
Once again, Nine has won the night with a primary share of 21.4% and a network share of 29.3%. 7Two has won multichannels with a 4.1% share.
Nine’s A Current Affair investigated furious families who said builder Sarkis was pulling “long sickies” on the job while a 74 year-old grandmother was accused of being a litterbug with lolly wrappers by a complete stranger. The diabetic doesn’t eat those lollies, let alone litter & can’t afford it. 379,000 tuned in. Then on Thursday Night Footy, reigning champions Penrith Panthers took on the South Sydney Rabbitohs with 362,000 watching as the Panthers won 16 to 10.
421,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with 7’s Seven’s Home and Away, before watching Code 1: The Martin Place Siege. 149,000 relived the events of December 15, 2014, where 18 people were taken hostage in Sydney’s Lindt cafe. Eyewitnesses and first responders explain what happened minute by minute in the months and weeks leading up to the horror.
On 10, The Project (157,000 6:30pm / 227,000 7pm) welcomed Weird Al Yankovich and Hugh Van Cuylenburg to the desk and investigated the Aussie scientists who have had a massive breakthrough, discovering how to create electricity from the air around us. Taskmaster brought the laughs for 304,000 before 405,000 joined our favourite couch warmers on Gogglebox as they critiqued Binge’s The Last of Us, 7’s We Interrupt this Broadcast and Netflix’s Break Point.
387,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 which covered the Victorian government’s promise to bring back state-owned energy, Sarah Ferguson interviewed former prime minister Kevin Rudd and told the story of 26-year-old Brisbane animator Lachlan Pendragon who is nominated for an Oscar. Then on Grand Designs: The Streets, at Graven Hill, Kevin met Vineet, Simmi, Prabhjot and Shalini, part of a close community of friends building new homes, who had to take their differing tastes into account. 220,000 tuned in.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Coastal Ireland with Adrian Dunbar. 103,000 tuned in to see host Adrian Dunbar visit chef Tom Kerridge, who showed Adrian around his 18th-century estate set among 100 stunning acres, before preparing a feast using ingredients picked on the grounds. Afterwards, he headed to Howth to meet artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the iconic two-tone portrait of Che Guevara.
