Monday Week 22 2019
• The Voice a winner again halfway through Blind Auditions
• MasterChef eliminates another cook on one of 10’s best Mondays
• Pilot Week champ Kinne Tonight returns with bigger audience
• Seven News 1,150,000/1,094,000
• Nine News 1,051,000/989,000
• A Current Affair 865,000
• ABC News 755,000
• 7.30 682,000
• The Project 325,000/502,000
• 10 News First 441,000
• SBS World News 148,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 268,000
• Today 215,000
Seven
Home And Away and House Rules were both over 700,000 last night.
The daily soap was on 759,000. It’s week 21 average was 653,000, close to week 20’s 649,000.
House Rules Monday did 735,000 after 740,000 on Sunday this week and 668,000 on Monday last week.
The US drama 9-1-1 followed with 433,000 after 416,000 a week ago.
Nine
A wannabe rock star was exposed on A Current Affair as it started a new week on 865,000. The show’s week 21 average was 734,000, after 735,000 in week 20.
The Voice is halfway through the longish Blind Audition episodes. The audience is thriving on it though with 952,000 last night after 1.09m on Sunday and 962,000 on Monday last week.
A Nine music special followed with 287,000 watching Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul.
10
The channel had one of its best Mondays of the year, only behind the night of the Dancing with the Stars final. Last night 10 was #1 in key demos.
MasterChef said goodbye to Leah last night with 16 contestants left. Although women well outnumbered men when the contest launched this year, the numbers have evened up now with eight women left from the original 15. The episode did 651,000 after 644,000 on Sunday and 600,000 on Monday last week.
Have You Been Paying Attention? drew the channel’s biggest audience of the night with 741,000, well up from 673,000 a week ago.
The winner of last year’s Pilot Week Troy Kinne was finally back on air with his prize – a commissioned series of Kinne Tonight. The season launched with 389,000, narrowly ahead of the audience of 378,000 that watched hit pilot last year. The show was also #1 in its timeslot.
Earlier in the night The Project was just over half a million at 7pm.
At 6pm Celebrity Name Game started its week on 275,000. It’s week 21 average was 232,000.
ABC
Australian Story was on 596,000 after 8pm as it revisited Andrew Mallard and his troubles with wrongful conviction.
Four Corners featured a French report on the Notre Dame fire that featured images that still shock over a month after the blaze. The audience was on 470,000 after 492,000 last week.
Media Watch featured Prue MacSweens’ greatest TV moments with 454,000 watching.
Q&A then did 372,000.
SBS
Great American Railroad Journeys was on 179,000.
The audience grew to 310,000 for the second week of Medicine Or Myth? It launched last week on 333,000 and was the #2 SBS show for the week.
24 Hours In Emergency then did 207,000.
