Total TV Ratings for October 31, 2021
The Block was the top program in the total TV ratings with 1.867m after increasing its overnight ratings by 23%. In the episode, The teams farewelled their builders ahead of the arrival of Scott Cam for the final “tools down”.
The special tribute Bert Newton: Let Me Entertain You was up 9% to 1.173m
Restoration Australia was the top program on the ABC with 864,000, an increase of 12%.
The top program on 10 was Celebrity MasterChef with 724,000 after increasing its ratings by 24%. The episode saw Matt Le Nevez‘s duck dish fail to keep him alive in the MasterChef kitchen.
November 7 Overnight TV Ratings
• MasterChef fires a Thorpedo
Primetime News
Nine News 999,000
Seven News 904,000
ABC News 554,000
10 News First 251,000 (5:00pm)/ 209,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 130,000 (6:30pm) 94,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 444,000
The Project 247,000 (6:30 pm)/312,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 220,000
Today 220,000
News Breakfast 190,000
Nine
Nine blew away the competition to be the top primary channel (40.8%) and network (46.6%) last night thanks to The Block‘s finale which brought in an average of 1.55m viewers before 1.83m tuned in for the winner announcement.
The Block‘s auctions saw Sydney couple Mitch and Mark named the winners of The Block Fans v Faves 2021 after taking home $744,444 in prize money by selling their cottage-style three-bedroom house for $4,044,444, which was $644,444 above the reserve and also took home an additional $100,000 for the largest total over the reserve.
The Block host Scott Cam said he went in to bat for the couples, to shave $100,000 off each of their reserve prices, after their agents expressed concern that the reserves were too high.“I thought the reserves were a bit high and I was concerned they wouldn’t make a buck – they worked so hard, so I made a call and got $100,000 off all the reserve price.”
The contestants took home a combined total of $2,271,968.12 in prizemoney, with all five houses selling for a profit. Ronnie and Georgia were left in fifth place, after putting themselves first in the auction order.
60 Minutes then followed with 688,000 viewers as the program covered the breakthrough in the investigation of Russell Hill and Carol Clay‘s disappearance.
Seven
7NEWS Spotlight: Ultimate ABBA! had 499,000 viewers as the special celebrated the music group’s first album in 40 years. Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson hosted the show.
Border Security: Australia’s Front Line then had 274,000 viewers before the Channing Tatum film White House Down had 169,000 viewers.
10
The Sunday Project had 247,000 (6:30pm) and 312,000 (7:00pm) as the show talked to Daniel Craig and Rami Malek about the new James Bond film, No Time to Die.
MasterChef Australia had 395,000 viewers as Ian Thorpe went home after his Eastern mess failed to impress the judges due to a lack of meringue and rosewater.
ABC
Restoration Australia had 487,000 viewers as Anthony Burke met Martin Nix who was restoring an 1850s workers cottage in Balmain.
Season two of Total Control then premiered with 331,000 viewers tuning in.
See more: Deborah Mailman on Total Control’s Alex Irving: ‘Struggling with her responsibilities’
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS was Inside Central Station with 127,000 viewers.
