• Irene attempts to broker peace on Home and Away
Total TV Ratings, September 28
865,000 watched Seven’s Home and Away as Leah and Justin went on a weekend getaway and ended up being kidnapped, up 30%.
727,000 tuned into 10’s Gogglebox Australia as the couch warmers dissected Nine’s The Block, ABC’s New Leash on Life, Netflix’s Selling the OC and Stan Original Series: Danielle Laidley – Two Tribes, up 20%.
Overnight TV Ratings, October 5
Primetime News
Seven News 782,000 (6:00pm) / 774,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 674,000 (6:00pm) / 700,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 505,000
10 News First 159,000 (5:00pm)/ 113,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 126,000 (6:30pm)/ 87,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 561,000
7.30 357,000
The Project 142,000 6:30pm / 225,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 192,000
Today 185,000
News Breakfast 85,000
Nine won Thursday night with a primary share of 18.8% and a network share of 26.7%. 7Mate has won multi channels with a 2.9% share.
Nine’s A Current Affair (561,000) featured John “Gordo” Gordon and Olivia Titor, two strangers brought together in a life-or-death situation at Fingal Head in northern New South Wales. After rescuing her previously from a dangerous rip, Gordon helped Titor step back into the water for the first time since the near-deadly day. Then, 499,000 watched The Block. It was three days until our Blockheads had to deliver not one, but two kids’ rooms in a busy week in Hampton East. Eliza and Liberty enlisted the help of Lego Masters’ Brickman to help them build a toy cheetah for one of their rooms. To avoid a cheating scandal, Scotty Cam told the girls they had to pay him! Meanwhile, BBQ King Brett won the $15,000 Weber Challenge by cooking Cam the perfect steak. Then, 154,000 tuned in for Session One of England v New Zealand at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. 106,000 stayed on for Session Two. NZ won by nine wickets with 82 balls left.
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423,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away as Mali had to act on Rose’s ultimatum and Irene attempted to broker peace between Roo and Marilyn. Then, 264,000 and 247,000 watched Highway Patrol where a learner bursts into tears when he’s caught without a fully licensed driver beside him and if that’s not bad enough, he then follows it up with a full-blown, toddler-like tantrum. In the second episode, drunk drivers are all too common but the man Leading Senior Constable Rob Jones pulls over was beyond belief. He was so off his face, that he had vomited all over his car – and partly down himself! Charming! 233,000 didn’t make a “big mistake, huge” by joining Julia Roberts and Richard Gere for the 1990 film, Pretty Woman.
On 10, The Project (142,000 6:30pm / 225,000 7pm) welcomed Diesel, one of Australia’s most gifted musicians to the desk and the program also looked at how research shows that Aussie childcare fees are some of the highest in the world with the Government now threatening to name and shame those who are overcharging. The Amazing Race Australia 2023 then followed for 429,000. The celebs and their loved ones were still in India’s city of love, Agra, where they continued to face extreme heat and a monsoon before a Bollywood routine tested their endurance. Aussie icon Grant Denyer and his equally fabulous wife Chezzi were eliminated from the race. Then, 430,000 watched Gogglebox Australia. This week, our favourite couch warmers watched Foxtel’s Love It or List It, both NRL and AFL Grand Finals and the Grand Finale of Thank God You’re Here. gri
357,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explore the sacked Principal from Brisbane’s St Paul’s School who broke his silence in an exclusive interview. Plus the program looked at the ousting of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House after nine months in the chair. Laura Tingle also interviewed David Pocock. 312,000 then watched Foreign Correspondent which looked at how Argentina’s inflation rates are over 100 per cent and 40 per cent of the population are living in poverty. 294,000 then stayed on for Grand Designs: House of the Year. The episode looked at five longlisted houses showcasing exceptional materials and craftsmanship, before revealing the winner of the 2022 prize. 190,000 also watched a repeat of Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro with 159,000 tuning in to see Julia Zemiro walk 14.5km of the Main Yarra Trail in the city of Melbourne. Along the way she took in the early morning exercise crew; visited an amphitheatre rescued by the Greek community; and met a defiant group of swimmers – the Yarra Yabbies.
