• Lego Masters brings back throwback challenges
Total TV Ratings, April 24
The six remaining teams on Lego Masters: Grand Masters delivered a tribute to Disney movies with 975,000 watching, lifting 43%.
Week four into the jungle on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and the episode brought in 727,000 to 10, up 28%.
An Anzac Eve AFL annual clash between Melbourne and Richmond filled the MCG to 85,000 and drove a Seven Total TV ratings audience of 699,000.
Overnight TV Ratings, May 1
Primetime News
Seven News 1,035,000 (6:00pm) / 979,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 823,000 (6:00pm) / 806,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 625,000
10 News First 322,000 (5:00pm)/ 273,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 148,000 (6:30pm)/ 126,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 697,000
7.30 459,000
The Project 320,000 6:30pm / 447,000 7pm
The Drum 166,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 197,000
Today 172,000
News Breakfast 132,000
Seven has won Monday night with a primary share of 22.5% and a network share of 30.8%. 7Two has topped multichannels with a 3.4% share.
Distance turned out to be a good thing for Cash and Eden, with 495,000 tuning into Seven’s Home and Away. On Farmer Wants A Wife, the pressure of meeting the potential in-laws became too much for some ladies, with 589,000 watching as the farmers’ families got to choose which of the women would get the final 24 hour date.
It was happy families on Nine’s A Current Affair, with an audience of 697,000 as the show met 88-year-old Jessie Pisconeri, and her 108 great-grandchildren. Lego Masters: Grand Masters shook things up, as the final five teams all took on a different challenge from a previous season, competing against the winning builds from that original challenge. 521,000 tuned in as Joss and Henry took the win, creating “Mr Coffee” out of a coffee machine inspired by the original Cut In Half challenge.
The ABC’s 7.30 took a trip to Queensland’s far north, where a community is grieving an Indigenous man shot and killed by police, and interviewed South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas for 459,000. Australian Story told 464,000 about the life of actor Heather Mitchell, before Four Corners looked into delays and safety issues in Australia’s current Collins Class submarines for 364,000. Media Watch brought in 426,000 viewers before David Speers stepped in as guest host for Q+A’s audience of 224,000.
It was an emotional night for all at Channel 10 after the news broke earlier in the day of the passing of MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo.
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The Project (320,000 6:30pm / 447,000 7pm) looked back at Zonfrillo’s time with the network, paying tribute to a friend and colleague Host Sarah Harris said that “He was never without his worry beads because – I love this about him – despite the fact that he was this manly Scottish and drank whiskey that he was he knew that there was power in vulnerability and he really worked to normalise anxiety.”
Entertainment reporter Angela Bishop said of Zonfrillo’s MasterChef co-hosts Melissa Leong and Andy Allen, “They are devastated, broken is the word that was used to me.”
Instead of the scheduled premiere of MasterChef, 10 ran The Bridge Australia for 173,000 viewers.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was The Secret Life Of Lighthouses with 110,000.
