• The Voice helps Seven rack up another win
• Mystery Box Mayhem on MasterChef
Total TV Ratings, April 25
The Voice was the top entertainment program for the Anzac Day total TV ratings with an audience of 1,456,000, which was an increase of 25% on its overnight audience. The episode saw the continuation of the blind auditions.
The #2 entertainment program of the night was Lego Masters with 1,112,000, up 32%. The episode saw the teams have 10 hours to build something set to mini-fig scale that is whole on one side and when spun around, revealed a world.
MasterChef Australia was the top program on 10 with 738,000 viewers, up 30% as a jaffa and crispy noodles saw Chris (fan) be the first contestant eliminated for the season.
Overnight TV Ratings, May 2
Primetime News
Seven News 1,000,000/934,000
Nine News 844,000/858,000
ABC News 649,000
10 News First 303,000 (5:00pm)/ 220,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 164,000 (6:30pm) 149,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 650,000
7.30 521,000
The Project 261,000 (6:30pm)/403,000 (7pm)
The Drum 201,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 256,000
News Breakfast 189,000
Today 174,000
Seven has continued its winning streak for the week after again securing the top primary channel share (22.3%) and network share (30.0%). This was once again assisted heavily by the success of The Voice which had 701,000 viewers, making it the top non-news program of the night. The episode saw Keith Urban and Guy Sebastian officially close their teams as the blind audition phase begins to near its end. The show was down on last Monday’s audience of 767,000.
Earlier in the night, Home and Away returned for the week with an audience of 4774,000.
On Nine, Lego Masters had 615,000 viewers as the teams had 10 hours to complete a spooky-themed build. Lego Masters was #1 in all key demos as the show continues its trend of performing well (very well) in this area. This episode was on last week’s 599,000 viewers.
The documentary series David Attenborough‘s The Mating Game then had 234,000 viewers.
On 10, The Project had 261,000 (6:00pm) and 403,000 (7:00pm) as the show discussed the halfway point of the election campaign, and that Labor is leading in the latest polls. MasterChef Australia then followed with 466,000 viewers, up on last week’s 438,000 viewers. The episode featured a mystery box from Shannon Bennett.
On the ABC, Australian Story had 504,000 viewers as Lisa Curry opened up about the death of her daughter. Four Corners (473,000) and Media Watch (470,000) then followed.
The top non-news program on SBS was Britain by Beach with 133,000 viewers tuning in.
