Total TV Ratings October 11, 2023:
Seven
Olympian Stephanie Rice suffered a painful injury that threatened to end her time on the course on SAS Australia. The Total TV ratings audience was 861,000.
Nine
On The Block, Brett called a body corporate meeting to see if he could switch his backyard and front yard in judging so that the pool — which is clearly a backyard feature in any home — would become part of front yard week. The Total TV audience for the episode last week was 1,155,000.
10
On The Amazing Race the celebrities breathed a sigh of relief when they realised it was a non-elimination leg of their journey. The Total TV audience was 692,000.
Overnight TV Ratings October 18
Primetime News
Seven News 850,000 (6.00 pm)/807,000 (6.30pm)
Nine News 634,000 (6.00 pm)/643,000 (6.30pm)
ABC News 476,000
10 News First 166,000 (5:00 pm)/121,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 121,000 (6:30 pm)/86,000 (7:00 pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 577,000
The Project 146,000 (6:30pm)/ 242,000 (7pm)
The Drum 96,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 221,000
Today 199,000
ABC Breakfast 135,000
Share summary
Nine kept its Week 42 winning streak intact with a primary share of 20.7% and a combined channel share of 30.1%.
Seven was in second place with 17.2% and 26.6%. 7TWO was again the #1 multichannel on 3.8%.
10 was on 9.7% and 16.3%.
Nine
A Current Affair reporter this week Alexis Daish found a mother of three cooking in her garage after a bogus builder took her money without finishing a renovation. The mid-week episode had an overnight audience of 577,000.
On The Block there was more angst about budgets this week and how some seem to have more than others. To help ease financial stress all teams received a budget boost to help the outdoor work in the penultimate week of renovation. The Wednesday episode was on 663,000 after 574,000 last week.
Luxe Listings Sydney is into season two of the show, a series made for Prime Video originally. The audience was up to 236,000 after 193,000 last week.
Seven
Home and Away was under the spotlight for much of Seven’s 2024 Upfront last night in Sydney. Presenters pointed how popular the show was and how it dwarfed many major TV brands including things like AppleTV+ series Ted Lasso. Home and Away was on 434,000 for the Wednesday episode.
Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly found a place in primetime with an episode at 7.30pm on 288,000.
A Year on Planet Earth launched at 8.30pm with narrator Stephen Fry explaining events on earth impacted by the planet’s journey around the sun. The series pulled in 194,000.
10
The Project continued its coverage of the conflict in and around the Gaza Strip and also found a celebrity shopper in WA. The episode started on 146,000 and climbed to 242,000 after 7pm. Tonight the program wil be co-hosted by Collingwood captain Darcy Moore for the full hour.
After a 12-hour flight delay, the celebrity contestants on The Amazing Race arrived in Penang where they were faced with a detour. Those who chose Piles of Tiles had to use logic to solve a mah-jong-themed puzzle, while Float Your Boat involved the spiritual Malay tradition of paper-boat making. From there, it was a foot race to the Pit Stop. Alli and Angie hit the mat first, with Ben and Jackie Gillies last to arrive which meant they were eliminated from the Race. The all people audience was 353,000 with the show #2 with audiences under 50 for the night.
Episode three of Jason Herbison’s drama Heat followed with 100,000 after 125,000 a week ago.
ABC
Episode 29 of season eight of Hard Quiz saw contestants answering specialist questions from Tom Gleeson about Scooby-Doo, The Salvation Army, the movie The Big Lebowski and the mysterious US nu metal rockers Slipknot. The audience was 421,000 after 464,000 last week, keeping it in the TV ratings top 10.
The third season of Question Everything launched with hosts Jan Fran and Wil Anderson who were joined by guests Alex Lee, Geraldine Hickey and Nath Valvo. The range of issues covered included Studio 10 giving viewers the silent treatment to suggestions on how The Voice might have secured a winning YES vote. Like 10’s HYBPA? did on Monday night, Question Everything finished with a tribute to comedian Cal Wilson. The new series launched with 303,000.
The first season of WTFAQ then wrapped with episode eight pulling a 9pm crowd of 262,000.
SBS
A British game show host got the prime slot at 7.30pm for the final episode of the three-part Alexander Armstrong in Sri Lanka. The final did 81,000 after 110,000 for episode two.
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