Tuesday Week 36 2019
• ABC gets a Tuesday blockbuster with Old People’s Home a hit
• Seven News 966,000/929,000
• Nine News 877,000/913,000
• A Current Affair 751,000
• ABC News 641,000
• 7.30 495,000
• The Project 298,000/461,000
• 10 News First 347,000
• The Drum 191,000
• SBS World News 150,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 271,000
• Today 194,000
Seven
Home and Away was on 625,000 after starting the week on 653,000.
Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly was just under 500,000 on the day Seven revealed a primetime Pooch production for 2020.
The audience haven’t warmed to The Proposal in the week since it launched. After the first episode did 307,000 a week ago, episode two was on, get this, 307,000 again.
Nine
Tracy Grimshaw warned A Current Affair viewers they would be angered by the bank who was about to take a struggler’s home when all she wanted to do was renegotiate the mortgage as she was spending $3,000 a month on medicines for her husband. Reporter Reid Butler revealed the bank was ANZ. Later in the episode Leila McKinnon interviewed actress Maggie Kirkpatrick about her wrongful sexual assault conviction. The second ACA episode of the week did 751,000 after 805,000 on Monday.
The Block looked at time like a VW commercial for red Amaroks as they lined up outside the construction site to transport the Blockheads to a challenge featuring former Block All-stars. The Tuesday episode did 847,000, down from 883,000 a week ago.
SeaChange episode five was all about love with 520,000 tuning in after 546,000 for episode four overnight a week prior. The consolidated numbers for that episode have lifted it to 650,000 metro without counting 9Now views.
10
After 475,000 Monday, The Project did 461,000. The show ended with another interview that was way too short – the talented couple of Tiffany Hall and Ed Kavalee who have produced a kids’ book – A First Time For Everything. The Project seems to be a nurturing ground for celebrities writing for kids. Authors connected with the show have included Hughesy and Holly Ife, Peter Helliar and Rove McManus.
Two contestants left Australian Survivor last night and it ended up both who were sent to Exile Beach are now on the Jury. First Daisy went home, and then it was Simon, explaining it was easier to win a Brownlow Medal than Survivor. After 40 days on the island there are six people to fight it out over the few episodes remaining. The Tuesday episode was on 808,000 after 803,000 a week ago. The episode won all the key demos for 10.
A repeat episode of NCIS then did 190,000.
ABC
Tuesday night has been a trouble spot for the broadcaster for some time. It has a hit on its hands now though with Endemol Shine Australia’s Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. After launching with a swag of good reviews and an audience of 478,000 a week ago, the series has climbed to 628,000 for episode two.
Earlier in the night Foreign Correspondent was on 469,000.
The AFL doco Collingwood: From The Inside Out screened after 9.30pm with 264,000 watching.
SBS
The return of Britain’s Most Historic Towns with the wonderful Professor Alice Roberts did 215,000 as she explored the history Canterbury.
Insight then spoke with people who had been wrongfully convicted with the episode drawing 172,000.
Dateline then returned to its traditional timeslot with 172,000 watching a report on the comeback of measles in the US and how New York is ground zero for the anti-vax movement.
