• The Block #1 entertainment show in primetime amidst budget drama
• Home and Away and Australia’s got Talent does the heavy lifting for Seven
Total TV Ratings, October 3
The Block was the top program in the total TV ratings with 1.60m viewers watching, an increase of 30% on its overnight ratings. The episode proved once and for all why Hell Week has earned its name as every team failed to finish their hallways and laundries in time for the reveal.
The Farmer Wants a Wife finale was the top entertainment program for Seven with 1.104m tuning in as Will, Ben, and Harry all found love.
The top program on 10 was Have You Been Paying Attention? with 927,000, an increase of 29% on its overnight ratings.
Overnight TV Ratings, October 10
Primetime News
Seven News 876,000/892,000
Nine News 773,000/827,000
ABC News 600,000
10 News First 283,000 (5:00pm)/197,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 147,000 (6:30pm)/108,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 730,000
7.30 482,000
The Project 230,000 (6:30pm)/ 326,000 (7pm)
The Drum 146,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 221,000
Today 174,000
News Breakfast 163,000
Nine was the most watched primary channel (21.9%) and network (29.3%) last night as the broadcaster was once gained buoyed by the success of The Block, which had 756,000 weeknight viewers. The episode saw Ankur and Sharon having to adjust to the consequences of Scott Cam‘s budget takeover.
Earlier in the night, A Current Affair had a very strong audience of 730,000 viewers as John Farnham’s sons, Robert and James, reveal dad’s road to recovery after cancer surgery.
On Seven, Home and Away was the top entertainment program of the night for the broadcaster with 503,000 viewers tuning in for the soap. Australia’s Got Talent then followed with 485,000 viewers, this was the second episode of the format’s return to TV with Monday’s launch episode bringing in 645,000.
On 10, Todd Sampson’s Mirror Mirror returned to its primetime slot for 10 with the show’s second season, Mirror Mirror: Love and Hate bringing in 404,000 viewers. The second and final episode of the second series will air tonight.
Have You Been Paying Attention? was then the top program of the night for 10 with 560,000 viewers as the episode featured Anne Edmonds, Guy Montgomery, and Alex Ward.
On the ABC, it’s classic current affairs lineup of Four Corners (454,000), Media Watch (443,000) and Australian Story (408,000) continued to perform well.
The top non-news show on SBS was Iceland With Alexander Armstrong with 103,000 viewers.
