Total TV Ratings for October 6, 2021
The Block was the top non-news program in the total TV ratings with 1.504m, an increase of 22%. The episode featured fears of another cheating scandal that were raised when it looked like Tanya and Vito might be getting their laundry cabinets installed for free, despite being told they’d have to pay.
Home and Away was the top non-news program on Seven with 1.172m which was an increase of 18%.
On the ABC, Hard Quiz managed to crack the one million viewer threshold with an increase of 11%. The season finale of Question Everything had 674,000, up 7%.
October 13 Overnight TV Ratings
• Seven gets one more episode out of SAS with a reunion special
Primetime News
Seven News 1,026,000/970,000
Nine News 937,000/920,000
ABC News 644,000
10 News First 316,000 (5:00pm)/ 197,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 148,000 (6:30pm) 117,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 737,000
7.30 537,000
The Project 261,000 (6:30pm)/406,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 153,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 241,000
Today 216,000
News Breakfast 212,000
Late News
The Latest 115,000
Nine News 65,000
ABC Late News 88,000
SBS World News Late 60,000
Nine
Nine was the top primary channel (20.6%) and network (29.5%) last night thanks to its winning combo of A Current Affair, The Block, and Love Island Australia.
A Current Affair had an audience of 737,000 as it told the story of a major auction blunder of Melbourne couple Cate Daniels and Vince Paterno‘s family home which sold for $200,000 less than they expected after a mistake during the bidding by agency Hodges Mentone.
On The Block, it looks like the teams are heading to another body corporate as tensions continue to rise based on how Kirsty and Jesse are affording to work on their house that is bigger than most of the other teams. The main agitators were Josh and Luke who kept calling for an audit, but who wilted when confronted by host Scott Cam. The episode was the top non-news program of the night with 898,000 viewers.
Love Island Australia continued its first week of broadcast with an audience of 292,000 tuning in.
Seven
Home and Away had an audience of 578,000 and was the top non-news program on Seven last night.
This was followed by the SAS Australia reunion special with 474,000. The special saw all 18 celebrity recruits return to base camp one last time to debrief with the DS and talk about their life-changing experience on SAS selection.
America’s Got Talent then followed with its first night of auditions, which saw 216,000 viewers tune in.
10
The Project had 261,000 (6:30pm) and 406,000 (7:00pm) as the show discussed the Nationals not backing Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s plan for net zero emissions unless it’s good for the regions.
The Graham Norton Show then had 243,000 viewers and featured Dave Grohl, Kadeena Cox, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Greg Davies, Jack Savoretti, and Nile Rodgers.
ABC
Hard Quiz continues to be an audience magnet for the ABC with an audience of 552,000.
Although this was outdone by the season 13 premiere of Gruen which had 657,000 viewers. Ahead of the premier host Wil Anderson told Mediaweek that the show still doesn’t have a studio audience (or Russel Howcroft in the studio for the foreseeable future), but it does have a year of pandemic experience under its belt.
“I feel like now we’ve had time to find our feet a little bit more and the prevailing thought going into the season is that it’ll probably be a little sharper. We’ll probably try to do what we did with Question Everything and have a small studio audience. We had the crew and the people who work on the show, so it was only about 15 people – they sat around on tables. It’s enough that you’ll remember that you’re not just advertising people talking to each other, you’re talking to an audience.”
See more: “Our job is always to try to make it better”: Wil Anderson on season 13 of Gruen
The episode spoke about the government’s campaigns to get vaccinated and compared them to other countries’ campaigns. They also examined vaccine campaigns from corporate companies like Qantas.
Frayed then followed with 259,000 viewers.
SBS
The top rating program on SBS last night was Australia’s Health Revolution with 262,000 viewers. SBS’s new drama New Gold Mountain then followed, with its first episode bringing in 173,000.
