• Best of the rest: Celebrity Apprentice, Big Brother, Home and Away
Primetime News
Seven News 1,129,000 (6 pm)/ 1,076,000 (6:30 pm)
Nine News is 1,128,000 (6 pm)/ 1,036,000 (6:30 pm)
ABC News 748,000
10 News First 430,000(5 pm)/ 317,000 (6pm)
SBS World News 166,000 (6:30 pm)/125,000 (7 pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 782,000
7:30 675,000
The Project 383,000 (6:30 pm)/570,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 202,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 253,000
Today 207,000
News Breakfast 173,000
Nine
Nine was the top primary channel last night with a 19.0% share.
Celebrity Apprentice had 595,000 as Lord Sugar tasked the celebs with creating a stage play at Sydney’s Seymour Centre to market a Boost Juice beverage.
When announcing the results Sugar said that there was a “bee’s d–k in it” with Team Momentum edging out the win. With a tough decision to make Sugar then made a surprising announcement.
“Do you know what, I’ve never done this ever, ever before. This goes against my principle, but you’re all off scot-free,” he announces as the room erupts in appreciative screams of delight.
“Get out of my way before I change my mind,” but added one more note that dampened the celebration.
“Next task, two people will be going home.”
This was followed by the second episode of Emergency, the show based on Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Emergency department with 306,000 viewers which was up slightly on last weeks launch audience of 302,000.
Then came Nine’s sports shows with Footy Classified bringing in 115,000 and 100% Footy having 59,000 viewers.
Seven
Seven was the top network last night with an 18.6% share with 7TWO and 7mate both having over a 3% share.
Big Brother had 590,000 viewers last night as Hell Week kicked off with the housemates through Big Brother’s day-long boot camp.
Big Brother then woke the housemates at 2.00am for a surprise nomination challenge, splitting them into two teams for a slip and slide battle. SJ and lovebirds Christina and Brenton found themselves nominated for eviction.
In the final count, Brenton was evicted and the lovers said their final goodbyes.
“This is the definition of hell week,” said Brenton. “Leaving after two weeks was not part of my plan. Being an intruder was really hard. Coming into these deep-seated relationships and tyring to crack them was difficult. Also being a physical threat didn’t help my chances in the eviction room today. It is hard to leave Christina behind because we had grown close to each other but I’m looking forward to catching her on the outside whenever the time comes.”
Home and Away was the top non-news show on Seven last night with 620,000 viewers.
10
The Project had 383,000 (6:30 pm) and 570,000 (7 pm) tuned in as the show discussed the vaccination failure as well mystery Covid cases in Melbourne, plus the controversy surrounding Naomi Osaka and the French Open.
On MasterChef, 661,000 watched as second chance week kicked off with the returning contestants looking to fight their way back into the competition. The episode came dangerously close to being the most-watched episode of the year falling just short of the launch audience of 670,000.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed with 749,000 making it the most watch non-news show of the night and was also #1 in all key demos. The episode saw the return of Cal Wilson, alongside familiar favourites Marty Sheargold and Kitty Flanagan.
ABC
The ABC‘s current affairs lineup performed strongly again with 7:30 leading the charge with 675,000. Australian Story followed with the story of soccer star Rhali Dobson and her fiance Matt Stonham and the challenges that the couple are facing.
Four Corners looked at James Packer and how Alan Jones facilitated the initial contact with the NSW Government to discuss his plans for a Sydney casino. The episode had 508,000.
Media Watch then followed with 496,000 viewers.
SBS
SBS was the place of secrets last night with the public broadcaster airing Secrets of the Tower of London (174,000) followed by Secret Scottland (168,000).
