Sunday Week 40 2019
• Seven’s All New Monty: Ladies ends Nine winning streak
• Seven combo delivers best Sunday share in 21 weeks
• Seven News 957,000
• Nine News 878,000
• ABC News 584,000
• Insiders 319,000
• Offsiders 162,000
• SBS World News 136,000
• 10 News First 104,000 (4pm yesterday)
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 257,000
• Today 165,000
Seven
The channel has broken Nine’s deadlock on Sunday nights, winning its first Sunday primary share race in 10 weeks. In doing so the combo of striptease and drama has delivered the channel’s best Sunday share in 21 weeks.
The even started with a Seven News victory at 6pm with just under 1m watching.
The All New Monty: Ladies’ Night followed with 889,000 watching the preparations for the main event. The numbers then climbed to 1.031m for the performance and the ditching of the clothes.
The launch of Secret Bridesmaids’ Business then followed with 426,000 watching the latish start around 9pm. Seven encouraged viewers to stay with a small ad load and it will try and keep some momentum with episodes screening again tonight and Tuesday.
Nine
The channel ended its Sunday winning streak despite having the most-watched show with The Block on 1.032m, down from 1.154m a week ago.
60 Minutes followed with 573,000 for an episode where a senior NSW Police sniper involved in the Sydney Lindt Café siege told 60 Minutes reporter Liz Hayes he believed the death of hostage Tori Johnson was a preventable tragedy.
10
The channel hasn’t had a big franchise running Sunday nights since Australian Survivor last screened on a Sunday four weeks ago.
The Rugby World Cup match gave 10 its best share in those four weeks, yet it was still under 10%.
Because of the rugby, 10 News screened at 4pm and there was no episode of The Project.
Despite Australia being competitive for much of the game, the clash with Wales had an audience close to 380,000.
An episode of The Graham Norton Show followed the rugby where the special guest was Dame Helen Mirren, yet only attracted 188,000.
A new episode of Instinct then did 166,000.
ABC
The second and final episode of The Pool was even better than the first with some great insights and commentary about the significance of public pools as meeting places. Matthew Mitcham also talked about his relationship with the media around the time of his gold medal win in the pool at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The episode did 396,000 after 411,000 watched the launch a week ago.
The penultimate episode of Les Norton was on 297,000 after 307,000 a week ago.
Glitch then did 94,000.
SBS
The third episode of the series repeat of Great Indian Railway Journeys was on 183,000.
A repeat of Dan Snow’s Rome: What Lies Beneath then did 136,000.
