Wednesday Week 39 2019
• The Block boil over in Triple M lifts midweek crowd to 960,000
• Retro Wednesday: Nine wins the night with AFL Footy Show!
• Gruen returns: Despite tech hitch, show #1 ABC, #2 non-news
• Seven News 924,000/914,000
• Nine News 796,000/809,000
• A Current Affair 703,000
• ABC News 608,000
• 7.30 528,000
• The Project 243,000/444,000
• 10 News First 330,000
• The Drum 159,000
• SBS World News 138,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 280,000
• Today 190,000
Seven
Home and Away went from 617,000 Tuesday to 578,000 last night.
The Celebrity Chase then did 416,000 with guests including Nazeem Hussain and Merv Hughes.
Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions continued with 282,000 after 331,000 last week.
Nine
After starting the week just over 800,000 on Monday, A Current Affair was holding just above 700,000.
The Block further explored the cheating allegations last night with the drama unfolding on Triple M as Block co-creator Julian Cress became entangled. The reluctant TV star didn’t want to challenge one of his contestants on live radio, but the cameras managed to pick up some of the behind-the-scenes drama for the TV show. The episode was the highest-rating Wednesday program this season with 963,000. Without any major reality franchise on 10, The Block cleaned up in all demos.
Southern metro markets then got a one-off Grand Final edition of The AFL Footy Show, which pulled a very impressive 328,000 in Melbourne, 420,000 across metro markets. It easily outperformed last year’s Footy Show special in Grand Final week, which did 248,000.
10
The Project broke a string on 500,000+ audiences when another night of The Masked Singer insights proved too much for some when the second revealed singer, Brett Lee, joined the program.
The channel then moved a new episode of Bondi Rescue to 7.30pm. The episode did 361,000 and a repeat then did 333,000. Not even the magic of the Osher Günsberg narration (one of the five primetime programs he works on for 10) could make the show compete the opposition and the channel dipped to a second single figure primary share this week.
A repeat of the 1994 movie classic Muriel’s Wedding then did 169,000.
ABC
Gruen returned with some technical issues with the audio not synching properly, which became annoying for a show featuring so many talking heads. That didn’t stop 754,000 staying the distance. That was enough to rank #2 non-news show for the night after The Block. It was also the second-smallest Gruen launch episode audience ever after 731,000 in May last year. (A number that grew to 862,000 in consolidated viewing.) The numbers watching this week should lift though with a corrected episode available on iview while Gruen XL now screens on Fridays.
Hard Quiz did 630,000 and Utopia was on 638,000.
The Set subsequently got an earlier start around 9.30pm with 189,000 watching an episode that included Jessica Mauboy.
SBS
Tony Robinson was trekking across Dartmoor in the first of a four-episode season of Britain’s Ancient Tracks, which did 222,000.
The Looming Tower then did 110,000 for two episodes.
