• Landscaping dramas on The Block
• Seven speeds up with Highway Patrol double
• The Real Love Boat sets sail for the first time
Total TV Ratings, September 28
The Block has kept its crown as top of non-news. 1,376,000 watched as Omar and Oz learned that their tilers had produced a fraudulent certificate of currency for their work cover, lifting 40%.
Hard Quiz rose 14%, with 895,000 tuning in to see Tom Gleeson roast a new round of contestants. Question Everything then debuted to 637,000, lifting 11%.
On Seven, the first episode of Home and Away’s double lifted 20% for a total audience of 850,000, while the second lifted 24% for a total audience of 808,000.
The Amazing Race took 595,000 to Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, up 45% as Chelsea and Jamus hit the mat last.
Overnight TV Ratings, October 5
Primetime News
Seven News 887,000/881,000
Nine News 785,000/784,000
ABC News 565,000
10 News First 258,000 (5:00pm)/170,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 151,000 (6:30pm)/121,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 635,000
7.30 504,000
The Project 196,000 (6:30pm)/ 306,000 (7pm)
The Drum 138,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 225,000
Today 191,000
News Breakfast 179,000
Late News
Nine News Late 76,000
The Latest: Seven News 72,000
ABC Late News 44,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 23.5% and a network share of 31.9%. Topping multichannels for the night was 7Two with a 4.0% share.
A Current Affair had 635,000 tune in as the show interviewed Tottie Goldsmith, niece of Olivia Newton-John, and covered the allegations that Angelina Jolie has made against Brad Pitt. There were a lot of financial pitfalls to avoid on The Block, with the teams struggling to scrape together a landscaping budget. 750,000 tuned in as Scott Cam threw the contestants a lifeline – taking $20k in advance from the landscaping budget and putting it into their landscapers’ accounts. My Life as a Rolling Stone then continued, this time looking at the lives of Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts for 191,000.
Seven’s Home and Away brought in an audience of 493,000, before back to back episodes of Highway Patrol. The first episode had 305,000 tune in, while 280,000 watched the second episode.
On the ABC, 7.30 looked into the betting ads played during the AFL and NRL Grand Finals, and interviewed New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman about her new book for 504,000. Hard Quiz gave away the Big Brass Mug in front of 549,000, before Question Everything got to the truth about asteroids for 415,000 viewers. Summer Love rounded out the night for 226,000.
10’s The Project ( 196,000 6:30pm / 306,000 7pm) covered the new Indigenous-led music event – The First and Forever Festival – and interviewed Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris of The Kooks. The Real Love Boat then set sail, debuting to an audience of 215,000 as Ben was left on land after a round of speed dating.
See Also: “Love Island meets Below Deck”: Sailing into the sunset on The Real Love Boat
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was The Australian Wars which had 147,000 tune in.
