Sunday Week 39 2019
• The Block avoids a walkout after the delivery of the kitchens
• Australia’s Got Talent ends with a pole dancer collecting $100k
• Seven News 968,000
• Nine News 872,000
• ABC News 649,000
• The Project 222,000/333,000
• 10 News First 352,000
• Insiders 339,000
• SBS World News 158,000
• Offsiders 150,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 236,000
• Today 190,000
Seven
Australia’s Got Talent ended its first season back on Seven with a series final of 747,000 with the crowd growing slightly to 752,000 for the reveal of the winner indicating not much extra interest in who actually one. Instead the audience was all in on watching the complete two-hour nine act series decider. The winner was a pole-dancing mother of three from Melbourne who is now $100,000 better off. The judges chose a final four in the last episode before host Rickie-Lee then gave the final decision to the viewers.
Later in the evening Sunday Night had an audience of 448,000 after 400,000 last week.
Nine
“Does anybody want to quit the game?” Block host Scott Cam asked last night during the reveal of the Kitchen Week scores.
“Because if you do, the door is there. No one’s holding you back. Does anybody want to go? We’ve done eight spaces – if you think you can’t hack it, it’s probably best you go home.”
Nobody did walk out of course as the program continues. Mitch and Mark revealed a sensational kitchen and butler’s kitchen, but it’s not enough to stop Andy and Deb from scoring 29 out of 30 which secureed them victory.
The Block episode did 1.15m to be #1 show of the night and up from 1.13m for the previous Sunday episode.
60 Minutes then featured a Nine publishing collaboration with the TV brand that saw reporters Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters revisiting allegations made earlier this year in the newspapers about the conduct of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The episode did 622,000 after 489,000 last week.
10
The channel didn’t want to launch The Masked Singer against the AGT final, so there was no major reality franchise again in the 7.30pm slot. Instead Ambulance Australia was sent into battle with 269,000, well behind the opposition, after 271,000 on the previous Sunday.
Earlier in the night The Project was on 333,000 after 7pm where Hughesy was helping promote his role on The Masked Singer.
ABC
Part one of the two-episode The Pool: Our Playground did 411,000 in an hour of TV that featured many talking heads and great archival footage of Australia at play in swimming pools. There was some nice contemporary drone work too around some of the baths that have survived and thrived.
In Les Norton, Les made his rugby league debut with 307,000 watching after 313,000 last week.
Glitch then had a smallish audience of 83,000 for episode five. The series launched with close to 140,000 and in the consolidated viewing since then that audience has double to 280,000. That is not including the audience who chose to watch it on iview.
SBS
The channel had two programs in the top 30 – a repeat Pompeii: Life Before Death was on 213,000 after a repeat of Great Indian Railway Journeys did 171,000.
