• MasterChef cooks battle for the first Immunity challenge
Total TV Ratings, May 1
On Seven’s Farmer Wants A Wife, the pressure of meeting the potential in-laws became too much for some ladies, with 1,189,000 watching as the farmers’ families got to choose which of the women would get the final 24 hour date, lifting 27%.
Lego Masters: Grand Masters shook things up, as the final five teams all took on a different challenge from a previous season, competing against the winning builds from that original challenge. 944,000 tuned in as Joss and Henry took the win, creating “Mr Coffee” out of a coffee machine inspired by the original Cut In Half challenge, up 28%.
Overnight TV Ratings, May 8
Primetime News
Seven News 1,040,000 (6:00pm) / 996,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 839,000 (6:00pm) / 818,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 615,000
10 News First 267,000 (5:00pm)/ 177,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 131,000 (6:30pm)/ 114,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 671,000
7.30 459,000
The Project 207,000 6:30pm / 337,000 7pm
The Drum 163,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 209,000
Today 198,000
News Breakfast 139,000
Seven has topped Monday night with a primary channel share of 22.3% and a network share of 29.6%. 7Two won multichannels with a 3.4% share.
Seven’s Home and Away took 503,000 to Summer Bay as Cash and Justin made a shocking discovery. Then, 535,000 got their toes tapping along to the star-studded concert commemorating the coronation of King Charles III, with Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie, and Take That hitting the stage.
Nine’s A Current Affair spoke to a family with three kids who all have dementia, before interviewing a man who narrowly avoided seriously injuring a six-year-old girl with his car for 671,000 viewers. It was then time to crown the Lego Masters: Grand Masters champions, with Joss and Henry, Scott and Owen, and Caleb and Alex taking on the mammoth final challenge. 584,000 tuned in, with that number rising to 598,000 to see Scott and Owen crowned for their build of a titan with a city on its back. Nine then also aired the Coronation Concert, with 250,000 tuning in.
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The ABC’s 7.30 looked ahead to tonight’s Federal Budget, and looked into complications associated with cosmetic injectables for 459,000. Australian Story gave 405,000 an update on their story about Beth Heinrich, who has spent almost half her lifetime chasing the Anglican Church to right past wrongs, before Four Corners looked into the future of AI and artificial life for 372,000. Media Watch drew a crowd of 415,000 before Q+A was live for 201,000.
On 10 The Project (207,000 6:30pm / 337,000 7pm) looked into the AFL decrying ‘excessive’ booing, and interviewers musician Calum Scott about performing at the Coronation Concert. Jamie Oliver was back for another day in the kitchen on MasterChef, with 557,000 watching as the cooks took on the first Immunity challenge.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Rise Of The Nazis: The Downfall, with 94,000 viewers.