• Big Brother beats out MasterChef in close contest
Primetime News
Seven News 1,048,000 (6 pm)/ 1,020,000 (6:30 pm)
Nine News is 995,000 (6 pm)/ 987,000 (6:30 pm)
ABC News 663,000
10 News First 381,000(5 pm)/ 255,000 (6pm)
SBS World News 156,000 (6:30 pm)/130,000 (7 pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 807,000
7:30 546,000
The Project 303,000 (6:30 pm)/496,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 174,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 263,000
Today 214,000
News Breakfast 158,000
Nine
Nine cruised to another Monday night win last night with a 22.8% primary share and a 29.5% network share. The driving force of this win was Lego Masters which had 1.03m tune in for the winner announcement and 932,000 for the grand finale.
The show was the top non-news program last night and was #1 in all key demos. This was also the top rating episode of the year, beating out the penultimate episode of the series that aired on Sunday night.
David and Gus were named the winners of the third season of the show with the pair taking home $100,000 along with the Lego Masters trophy.
The final three teams had 28 hours to build whatever they wanted, with no limitations and no directives.
Not only did they need to impress Ryan McNaught, the expert “Brickman”, but also 250 members of the public who voted for their favourite build. McNaught was brought to tears due to the builds, saying “Lego is humble…it’s beautiful”.
David and Gus decided on a diorama. Their story, set in a forest, had two deer being preyed upon by a pack of wolves.
Read more: Lego Masters: David and Gus crowned winners of season three
Seven
Big Brother had 592,000 watch as the six intruders to the house gave the housemates the surprise of their lives. This was down on the 638,000 that watched the show last Monday.
In the intruders’ challenge, muscle man Mitch became the first fully-fledged housemate.
Then it was up to the originals to choose which of the five remaining intruders would be next, with 53-year-old Adriana becoming the second intruder to score a place in the house.
Home and Away was the top rating program on Seven last night with an audience of 598,000.
10
MasterChef kicked off Beat the Brigade week with an immunity challenge that saw the pink team win themselves immunity. 574,000 tuned in for this challenge which was down on the 623,000 that the show had last Monday.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed with a robust 653,000 viewers. The episode featured Kitty Flanagan making her season debut alongside Tim McDonald and Melanie Bracewell.
ABC
Despite being a repeat Australian Story was the top program in ABC’s current affairs lineup last night. The episode was centred on the 1960’s Australian band The Seekers. Beforehand 7:30 had 546,000 tune in while later in the evening Four Corners had 464,000 and Media Watch had 408,000 viewers.
SBS
The top program on SBS last night was Secret Scotland with 164,000 viewers.
