- The Great Debate sees Morrison and Albanese clash for the last time ahead of the election
- Gruen Nation returns ahead of the federal election
- MasterChef brings Clare Smyth into the kitchen
Total TV Ratings: May 4
On Seven, The Voice was up 32% for a total audience of 1.335m as the coaches decided who would progress to the battles. Home and Away was up 19% for a total audience of 976,000.
On Nine, the Travel Guides drove (and crashed) boats, shot gel blasters, and herded sheep as they ventured into the South Australian outback. The episode lifted 24% for a total audience of 1.006m.
The Thing About Pam aired two episodes – the first lifting 61% for a total of 544,000, and the second lifting 87% for a total of 486,000.
On 10, MasterChef took a total of 658,000 into the kitchen after lifting 28%.
Overnight TV Ratings: May 11
Primetime News
Seven News 950,000/909,000
Nine News 888,000/873,000
ABC News 585,000
10 News First 324,000 (5:00pm)/ 248,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 147,000 (6:30pm)/119,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current affairs
A Current Affair 704,000
7.30 491,000
The Project 284,000 (6:30pm)/ 402,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 176,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 252,000
Today 204,000
News Breakfast 191,000
Seven has won the night with a primary share of 21.5% and a network share of 28.9%. Taking the crown for the multichannels was 7TWO with a share of 3.7% as it aired Bargain Hunt and The Coronor.
There was a lot of buzz around third and final leaders’ debate on Seven, and leading into it were Home and Away (473,000) and Big Brother (379,000). The Great Debate: The Final Showdown was hosted by political editor Mark Riley as Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese went head-to-head for an audience of 527,000 in the third and final leaders’ debate before the election.
The debate saw an 811,000 total overnight TV audience, 771,000 viewers nationally, and 40,000 tune in on BVOD.
On Nine, 704,000 watched as A Current Affair saw Ben Fordham head into a supermax prison, before an interview with the couple who are trying to get their money back after their credit card was charged 15 times for the same flight. Afterward, the Travel Guides flew into Brisbane to show 618,000 all of the best that the Queensland capital has to offer. The guides’ antics saw them come in as the top non-news program of the night.
On 10, The Project (284,000 6:30pm / 402,000 7pm) interviewed (and made some named-based jokes about) independent Senate candidate Max Dicks, and covered how the hospital system is faring after covid exposed the cracks. Clare Smyth joined MasterChef and brought 510,000 into the kitchen, before First Dates (260,000) brought Emily and Onye together for the first time, despite them previously matching on dating apps.
ABC’s 7:30 asked whether Barnaby Joyce was still resonating with regional electorates for an audience of 491,000. Afterwards, the return of Gruen Nation (588,000) saw Wil Anderson and the panel dissect how the major parties are trying to buy votes – and whether or not Clive Palmer is getting his money’s worth. 520,000 stuck around for The Weekly With Charlie Pickering, with Tomorrow Tonight rounding out the evening with 277,000.
On SBS, the highest rating non-news show was Tony Robinson’s Coast To Coast, which drew an audience of 171,000.
