• Hard Quiz, Question Everything, and Fisk create a big night for the ABC
• Country Home Rescue with Shaynna Blaze makes its debut
• Total TV: Love Island Australia lifts 560%
Total TV Ratings, November 9
Fisk has topped non-news in total TV for the ABC, with a lift of 66% resulting in a total of 994,000 viewers. Hard Quiz rose 17% for a total audience of 815,000, while Question Everything brought in 646,000 viewers, up 14%
Home and Away brought 892,000 to Seven, lifting 22%. A repeat of Hey Hey It’s 50 Years lifted 8%, with 601,000 tuning in.
A repeat of The Dog House brought 427,000 to 10, up 4%.
Nine’s BVOD push with Love Island Australia continued to pull big numbers, this time liftin 560% for a total audience of 343,000.
Overnight TV Ratings, November 16
Primetime News
Seven News 861,000 (6:30pm)/ 854,000 (7:00pm)
Nine News 679,000 (6:30pm)/ 690,000 (7:00pm)
ABC News 547,000
10 News First 253,000 (5:00pm)/ 150,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 138,000 (6:30pm)/ 113,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 548,000
7.30 461,000
The Project 178,000 (6:30pm)/ 260,000 (7pm)
The Drum 145,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 219,000
News Breakfast 180,000
Today 174,000
Seven has won the night with a 20.5% primary share and a 29.2% network share. 7Two has the highest share for multichannels with 3.6%.
Seven’s Home and Away drew 525,000 viewers to begin the night. Daryl Somers then took a stroll down memory lane alongside 384,000, as he hosted a repeat of Hey Hey It’s 100 Years.
With just over a week until Tracy Grimshaw leaves the show, Nine’s A Current Affair hosted a special episode from the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne. 548,000 tuned in as the show interviewed a woman who documented her house flooding, and tracked down a dodgy shed builder. Country Home Rescue with Shaynna Blaze then debuted to 381,000 as Shaynna and her kids, Carly and Jess, work to restore a regional Victoria home.
The ABC’s 7.30 took a trip to the central west of NSW where the Lachlan River is flooding, and interviewed Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong for 461,000. The season finale of Hard Quiz saw contestant Matt hoist the Big Brass Mug with his expert subject of Japanese artist Hokusai in front of 478,000. Question Everything brought in 408,000 viewers… or did it? (Yes, it did). Kitty Flanagan’s Fisk rounded out the night with 457,000 as Glenn Robbins made another appearance as Dean.
10’s The Project (178,000 6:30pm / 260,000 7:00pm) covered the announcement that Donald Trump will be running for US President again in 2024, and interviewed Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz. 290,000 tuned in as The Dog House gave viewers the warm and fuzzies, before The Real Love Boat set sail for its penultimate episode with 128,000 coming along for the ride.
The highest rating show on SBS was a repeat of The Secrets Of Coca-Cola with 154,000 tuning in.
