• The Weekly and Hard Quiz bring the laughs on a Wednesday night
• Celebrity Apprentice goes on a scavenger hunt
• The Big Brother housemates enter the ‘party cage’
• Five Bedrooms and You Can’t Ask That return
Total TV Ratings: May 18
Once again, Travel Guides wears the crown in total TV. The episode took the guides along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, lifting 25% for a total audience of 1,084,000. Not far behind it was Gruen Nation, with the final episode before the federal election lifting 23% for a total audience of 1,013,000. Also cracking the 1million mark was Home and Away, which saw 1,001,000 tune in after a lift of 21%.
MasterChef served up a Deliveroo challenge, lifting 22% for a total audience of 810,000, with Big Brother the biggest riser of the night, lifting 49% for a total of 802,000.
Overnight TV Ratings: May 25
Primetime News
Seven News 1,007,000/920,000
Nine News 888,000/849,000
ABC News 651,000
10 News First 324,000 (5:00pm)/ 207,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 154,000 (6:30pm)/123,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current affairs
A Current Affair 653,000
7.30 533,000
The Project 255,000 (6:30pm)/ 365,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 221,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 232,000
Today 183,000
News Breakfast 224,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 18.9% and a network share of 27.3%. 7TWO has taken the title for top multichannel with a share of 4.4%, airing The Coroner and Mrs. Brown’s Boys.
On Nine, A Current Affair spoke to the 74-year-old tenant who inherited her rental from her landlord and investigated why apartment owners were on track to lose their car parks for an audience of 653,000. On Celebrity Apprentice (373,000), Lord Sugar sent the celebrities on a scavenger hunt to test their negotiation skills before Gamble Breaux was fired.
Home and Away drew an audience of 473,000 for Seven, before Big Brother (349,000) saw tensions between Tim and Drew reach an all-time high after Tim nominated his former best friend’s lover, Sam, for eviction. After the Panic Room task, all fourteen housemates were locked into a ‘party cage’ for 24-hours.
10’s The Project (255,000 6:30pm / 365,000 7pm) covered the Texas school shooting, interviewed Ewan McGregor about what it was like to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and explained why Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is under pressure to bring the federal government’s childcare changes forward. MasterChef had 486,000 tune in as the teams faced a service challenge for 60 diners at Werribee Mansion. Finally, the return of Five Bedrooms to 10 drew a crowd of 269,000.
7:30 (533,000) lead the night for the ABC, also covering the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, as well as China’s proposed a region-wide deal in the Pacific. The Wednesday night comedy line up kicked in with Hard Quiz, seeing 544,000 stick around for the giveaway of the big brass mug. 549,000 tuned in for The Weekly With Charlie Pickering, before the new season of You Can’t Ask That (346,000) launched by speaking to bogans.
On SBS, the highest rating program was Tony Robinson: WWII By Drone
which had 184,000 tune in.
