• Coco and Pearls fail miserably on My Kitchen Rules
Total TV Ratings, September 4
1,247,000 watched Nine’s The Block as the fallout from strategic gnome-playing led to drama, up 38%.
942,000 tuned into 10’s Have You Been Paying Attention? where Chrissie Swan put Celia Pacquola, Peter Helliar, Emma Holland, Ed Kavalee and Sam Pang through their paces, up 30%.
911,000 viewed Seven’s My Kitchen Rules as friends Tommy and Rach were first up, with everything going well until a rogue garlic flower ruined dessert, up 31%.
Overnight TV Ratings, September 11
Primetime News
Seven News 876,000 (6:00pm) / 886,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 798,000 (6:00pm) / 804,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 540,000
10 News First 216,000 (5:00pm)/ 153,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 139,000 (6:30pm)/ 117,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 645,000
7.30 445,000
The Project 194,000 6:30pm / 337,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 201,000
Today 186,000
News Breakfast 134,000
Seven won Monday night with a primary share of 20.9% and a network share of 29.2%. 7Two has won multi channels with a 3.2% share.
457,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away where Cash chased a lead and Harper feared for her sister’s safety while Tane and Felicity planned for their future. My Kitchen Rules followed as Coco and Pearls did not deliver on their all ten promise. The best friends failed with every course, leaving the guests and judges wanting more. 558,000 tuned in. Next up, 240,000 watched US procedural The Rookie.
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Nine has claimed that 9News Sydney has achieved an early victory in the 2023 ratings year. Across the Monday to Friday 6.00 pm hour, the programme has won 21 weeks of the 40-week official ratings calendar, which would put it in an unbeatable position. As for Monday night, viewers tuned into A Current Affair (645,000) which looked at how the impact of the COVID pandemic has taken its toll on primary school kids. Then, 557,000 watched The Block. The divide between the five houses was kept alight as Leah and Ash and Kristy and Brett once again took aim at Steph. Frustrated over her need for validation, they decided to only give her negative feedback. On the renovating side of things, the master bedroom and walk-in-robe week began. 241,000 then watched Missing Person’s Investigation Unit as a father disappeared in croc-infested waters and a young girl walked out of her family home never to return.
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On 10, The Project (194,000 6:30 pm / 337,000 7 pm) spoke to former Spice Girl Mel B while the panel also looked at how as we head into tick season, Aussies are calling for doctors to recognise that there is Lyme disease in the country as medical professionals vehemently deny that new infections are occurring. The season premiere of The Masked Singer Australia 2023 followed as the first five masks performed for the guessing panel. At the end of the show, Crash Test Dummy received the least amount of votes and was revealed to be former 90210 90s heartthrob Brian Austin Green. “I had a neurological issue come up in my life,” he revealed. “I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t say more than one word every 30 seconds. So, I’m at a place in my life where I’m just trying to say yes to everything and experience things.” 463,000 tuned in. Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed with guest stars Lloyd Langford, Alex Ward, Mel Tracina, Ed Kavalee and Sam Pang for 595,000.
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445,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explore the collapse of an investment scheme that has left a trail of debt totalling more than $80 million. Laura Tingle also interviewed Greens Leader Adam Bandt and the program also looked at the search for survivors after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco. Australian Story then followed for 435,000, detailing war correspondent Dean Yates who thought he was indestructible but when two of his staff were gunned down by the US military in Iraq, he and his family reached a breaking point. Four Corners followed as Dan Bourchier travelled the country talking to people about what the Voice referendum meant to them. 361,000 watched on. 389,000 also sat down for Media Watch, while 181,000 viewed Q&A.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Finding Your Roots with 113,000 tuning in to see three mainstays of modern-day Hollywood — Ted Danson, William H. Macy and Mary Steenburgen — discover family legacies that predate the United States itself.
