• This Is Your Life tops non-news
• Total TV: Love Island Australia up over 800%
• Australian Story steps into the kitchen with Poh Ling Yeow
Total TV Ratings, November 7
This Is Your Life topped non-news for Seven, cracking open the Big Red Book for Rebecca Gibney. 1,045,000 tuned in, lifting 13%.
The ABC’s Australian Story was close behind, lifting 17% and telling 980,000 about the life of Tim Minchin.
Have You Been Paying Attention? lifted 29% for 10, with 878,000 tuning in for the last episode of the year. The Traitors was up 29%, with 450,000 watching as two Traitors and two Faithful made it through to the finale.
Nine launched My Mum Your Dad to 757,000 lifting 38%. Love Island Australia cracked the top 30 of the total TV list again, despite being run on 9Now, with 334,000 tuning in – a lift of a whopping 828%.
Overnight TV Ratings, November 14
Primetime News
Seven News 884,000/878,000
Nine News 784,000/775,000
ABC News 607,000
10 News First 266,000 (5:00pm)/180,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 140,000 (6:30pm)/ 114,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 630,000
7.30 473,000
The Project 208,000 (6:30pm)/ 337,000 (7pm)
The Drum 126,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 227,000
Today 195,000
News Breakfast 181,000
Seven has won the night with a primary share of 21.6% and a network share of 30.0%. 7Two has come out on top for multichannels with a 4.1% share.
Seven’s night began with Home and Away, drawing a crowd of 447,000. This Is Your Life then took Tina Arena on a stroll down memory lane in front of 532,000.
A Current Affair brought 630,000 to Nine, asking for the reason why a family’s electricity bill went from $600 to almost $5000 in a quarter. My Mum Your Dad scored its first kiss of the season between Shane and Kristy, and had 368,000 as Marette and daughter Tonya were eliminated from the house. Under Investigation got into a public health battle for 241,000, looking at the fallout of a slug being found in a Melbourne catering company’s factory.
The ABC’s 7.30 covered the controversial practice of wild dog management and asked how to protect Lismore from further floods for 473,000. Australian Story looked at the life of Poh Ling Yeow for 514,000, before Four Corners covered the ways that children in detention are treated for 306,000.
On 10, The Project (208,000 6:30pm / 337,000 7pm) covered the impact of long covid in Australia as the country goes into its fourth wave, and interviewed Bruce Springsteen. The Challenge debuted to 257,000, with pro-boxer Billy Dib, and influencer and actress Suzan Mutesi eliminated first.
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The highest rating show on SBS was Rescue: Extreme Medics with 104,000.
