Total TV Ratings for September 27, 2021
The Block was once again the top show in the total TV ratings with 1.475m after going up by 21%. The episode saw Tanya and Vito‘s sunken lounge idea for their living and dining area put in jeopardy when an electricity supply was discovered under the floor.
Home and Away was the top non-news program on Seven with 1.190m (up 19%). SAS Australia was up 35% bringing its total audience to 1.162m. The episode saw no recruits go home after the celebs had to forward abseil down a steep 90 metre cliff face, and then split into two teams for a mission in a pitch black tunnel, under team leaders Mark Philippoussis and Dan Ewing.
The Masked Singer Australia had an average of 901,000 as the reveal of Alli Simpson being under the Lighting costume had 1.138m.
Have You Been Paying Attention? was up 21% for its episode with Tony Martin, Melanie Bracewell, Lloyd Langford, Alex Ward and Ed Kavalee. The episode had a total of 1.091m.
October 4 Overnight TV Ratings
• Penultimate ep of the Masked Singer unwrapped its Kebab to reveal Jack Vidgen
Primetime News
Seven News 1,015,000/999,000
Nine News 988,000/970,000
ABC News 720,000
10 News First 345,000 (5:00pm)/ 234,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 169,000 (6:30pm) 136,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 809,000
7.30 655,000
The Project 302,000 (6:30pm)/482,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 200,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 233,000
Today 211,000
News Breakfast 170,000
Late News
Nine News 152,000
The Latest 148,000
ABC Late News 69,000
SBS World News Late 53,000
Nine
Nine chalked up another win, continuing where it left off last week. The broadcaster was the top primary channel with 23.4% and also the #1 network with 19.6%.
The Nine Network will be hard to topple this week after a Sunday NRL Grand Final and then a Monday Block reveal for Living & Dining Room Week. After the usual update about the tensions amongst the renovators, the judges arrived to inspect their handwork for the audience of 995,000.
Three couples spent close to $50,000 each and they were judged the best rooms. After the dust settled at the vote count, Ronnie and Georgia tied on 29.5 with their archrivals Tanya and Vito. Shaynna loved the Faves work: “Everything that a real estate agent wants to talk about is here.”
Neale was loving the sunken lounge that the couple at the centre of the cheating scandal delivered: “Part of me feels like I’ve been swept back to the Hollywood Hills in the 1950s.”
Kirsty and Jesse were the third of the big spenders and they came oh-so-close to a three-way tie with a score of 29.0. “Honey I’m home…this is beautiful,” said Neale after he entered their property.
It was another bad night for Mitch and Mark with 25.0 – “Many things to love, but the layout is wrong,” said Darren – and Josh and Luke who were last again on 22.5.
It’s now time to tidy up a few loose ends on the series with Hallway, Laundries and Powder Rooms Week. “Otherwise known as Hell Week,” said Scott Cam.
The new documentary from The New York Times, Controlling Britney Spears then went to air just days after it debuted on Hulu in the USA. The Nine audience was 324,000.
Seven
Home and Away kicked off its week with 579,000. The show averaged 602,000 last week.
Episode 10 – subtitled Grit – of SAS Australia went to air just as production started work on a new season which could open the ratings year for Seven in 2022. The episode had 597,000 viewers as three recruits went home. The first test saw the recruits positioned on a narrow log, suspended over a torrent of rushing water, where they had to fight it out through a series of elimination rounds, in an effort to be the last man or woman standing. Afterwards, Jett Kenny who had been struggling to fuel his depleted body chose to VW.
Recruits then faced a log race, hauling a 150 kilogram log through five kilometres of unforgiving terrain to a rendezvous point high on a mountain peak, in one hour. Barley a kilometre into the back-breaking task, Jessica Peris separated from the group and handed in her number. Heath Shaw was next to falter in the excruciating log haul, handing in his number in a moment of weakness before being convinced to take it back. After the task though, Heath admitted he was empty and quit the course for good.
The film Deadpool then followed with the Ryan Reynolds led comic book flick bringing in 240,000 viewers.
10
The Sunday Project had 302,000 (6:30pm) and 482,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered Melbourne becoming the most locked-down city in the world.
The penultimate episode of The Masked Singer then had an average of 575,000 and then 700,000 as Jack Vidgen was revealed to be under the Kebab costume. Despite a strong rendition of Lizzo’s Juice, Vidgen was no match for Mullet’s take on Blame it on Me by George Ezra.
Guessing panel Dannii Minogue, Dave Hughes and Urzila Carlson were not able to detect Jack as Kebab and instead nominated Sneaky Sound System frontwoman Connie Mitchell, actor John Travolta and performer Courtney Act. Certain on it being Jack from the very beginning of the season, Jackie O was correct in guessing his identity.
Joining Sam and Ed on Have You Been Paying Attention? were Glenn Robbins, Kitty Flanagan and Emma Holland. The episode had 643,000.
ABC
Australian Story (516,000) featured the “godfather of coral” Charlie Veron who revealed his plan to save the Great Barrier Reef.
As part of the team of 600 journalists from around the world, Four Corners (608,000) then looked at the secrets inside the Pandora Papers.
Media Watch followed with 560,000.
China Tonight then featured co-host Stan Grant speaking with the Foreign Minister of Taiwan. The episode had 247,000.
SBS
Following SBS World News was Hidenburg: 10 Mistakes on 176,000 and then Secret Scotland with 172,000.
