• The Traitors penultimate episode ends without a murder
• Have You Been Paying Attention? Brings in pint-sized quizmater
Total TV Ratings, August 28
1,264,000 watched the first night of Callbacks on The Voice, up 25% on Seven, as the coaches halved their teams from 12 to six.
There was fallout from the Work From Home Room Reveals on The Block. 1,254,000 tuned in to see Leah struggle to come to terms with being last, up 42%.
On 10, The Traitors was up 38% for a total audience of 494,000. Have You Been Paying Attention? was up 31% with 958,000 tuning in.
Overnight TV Ratings, September 4
Primetime News
Seven News 935,000 (6:00pm) / 888,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 823,000 (6:00pm) / 858,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 552,000
10 News First 207,000 (5:00pm)/ 139,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 151,000 (6:30pm)/ 122,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 710,000
7.30 504,000
The Project 184,000 6:30pm / 287,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 227,000
Today 191,000
News Breakfast 135,000
Nine has won Monday night with a primary share of 21.5% and a network share of 28.9%. 7Two topped multichannels with a 3.1% share.
710,000 began the night with A Current Affair. It was a fiery night on The Block as the fallout from strategic gnome-playing led to drama. 651,000 tuned in as the teams toured each other’s houses, with Ash saying that the now infamous moss wall looked like “Shrek’s pubes”. Missing Persons Investigation Unit followed, as 273,000 watched the team use new breakthrough forensic techniques to try and crack a 30-year-old mystery.
Summer Bay drew 441,000 in to begin the evening on Seven, as Marilyn feared she lost a friend on Home and Away. MKR then premiered, bringing 470,000 into the kitchen for another season. Friends Tommy and Rach were first up, with everything going well until a rogue garlic flower ruined dessert. The on-screen drama wasn’t all that people saw, with fans picking up that the MKR contestants were shopping at Woolworths. In previous years, MKR cooks would visit Coles.
504,000 tuned in as Sarah Ferguson spoke with MP Tony Burke, and investigated more than 30 unsolved LGBTIQ hate crimes for the ABC’s 7.30. Australian Story saw Erica Packer – former wife of billionaire James Packer – tell her story about the deadly genetic mystery impacting her family for 481,000. Four Corners looked into the reality of life for women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule for 395,000, before Media Watch brought in 391,000. Q+A rounded out the evening with 181,000.
On 10, The Project (184,000 6:30pm / 287,000 7pm) looked into Peter Dutton‘s announcement that he would hold another referendum if the Voice fails, and interviewed Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The penultimate episode of The Traitors got dramatic as another Faithful, Gloria, was banished. 275,000 tuned in as the news that there would be no murder meant that Sam earned a target on his back. Have You Been Paying Attention? then gave 543,000 the giggles, with a particularly unique guest quizmater – 7yo golf prodigy, Zac Wolfe.
The highest rated non-news show on SBS was Finding Your Roots with 123,000.
