Total TV Ratings for September 30, 2021
The top non-news show in the total TV ratings was Home and Away with an average of 1.134m for its first two eps after increasing its overnight ratings by 20%. The third episode had 1.071m after increasing by 22%.
Gogglebox was the top show on 10 with 1.031m after improving by 18%.
On Nine, A Current Affair cracked 1 million after improving by 4% and RBT had 793,000 an increase of 5%.
October 7 Overnight TV Ratings
• Gogglebox continues to carry 10 on Thursday nights
Primetime News
Nine News 1,019,000/966,000
Seven News 1,001,000/959,000
ABC News 686,000
10 News First 317,000 (5:00pm)/ 199,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 139,000 (6:30pm) 124,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 740,000
7.30 533,000
The Project 241,000 (6:30pm)/415,000 (7pm)
The Drum 160,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 231,000
Today 233,000
News Breakfast 209,000
Late News
Nine News Late 118,000
The Latest 73,000
ABC Late News 73,000
Nine
Nine continued its winning week with a comfortable victory last night. The broadcaster was the top primary channel by over 10 points with 24.4% and also the top network by more than 11 points with 33.3%.
A Current Affair had 740,000 viewers as the show examined the Taliban’s backflip on women’s rights and spoke to Waheedullah Hashimi, an English-speaking Taliban Commander from Kabul who claimed, “we are forgiving people now, we are hugging people”.
On a rare Thursday night episode of The Block (due to the NRL GF), Josh and Luke were on the verge of conceding defeat just two days out from hallway and laundry reveals, after pool distractions and plasterer drama. Tanya and Vito copped an unexpected hit to their budget when they were forced to pay for cabinetry installation they thought they were getting for free. The episode had an audience of 849,000, making it the top non-news program of the night.
The Tom Cruise action film Jack Reacher then followed with 298,000.
Seven
On Seven, Home and Away didn’t air its usual triple header this week with fans of the soap having to settle for just one episode last night. The ep was the top entertainment program of the night for Seven with 565,000 viewers.
The women’s international T20 match between Australia and India aired at 7:30 on Seven’s primary channel but the match was called off due to rain during the first innings. The match was declared a draw as India was on its way to a healthy total with 4/131. The match was a rematch of the World Cup final, and the sides have two more matches in the series left to play.
10
The Project had 241,000 (6:30pm) and 415,000 (is 7:00pm) as the show discussed the new reopening plan from the new NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and if regulators have made it harder to get in the housing market.
In place of Making It Australia which has been bumped to the weekends on 10, the broadcaster aired Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remember which brought in 338,000 viewers. Making It had 341,000 viewers in the timeslot last week.
Gogglebox was the top program on 10 with 634,000 viewers.
ABC
A repeat of Foreign Correspondent had 414,000 as Linton Besser visited the exclusion zone to see the devastation of the nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl.
Q+A was live from Sydney with Stan Grant as 281,000 viewers watched the show discuss online crime, misinformation, and the shock departure of Gladys Berejiklian.
SBS
The top program on SBS was a repeat of Lost Temple of the Inca with 155,000 viewers.
