• Seven gives viewers a double dose of RFDS
Primetime News
Seven News 1,086,000/1,046,000
Nine News 1,161,000/1,002,000
ABC News 703,000
10 News First 337,000 (5:00pm)/ 237,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 176,000 (6:30pm) 151,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 739,000
7.30 584,000
The Project 300,000 (6:30pm)/498,000 (7pm)
The Drum 180,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 248,000
Today 247,000
News Breakfast 220,000
Late News
The Latest 175,000
Nine News Late Edition 144,000
ABC Late News 54,000
Nine
Nine has continued its winning streak, marking its third night in a row with the top primary channel and network. The broadcaster was once again a comfortable winner with a primary share of 22.6% and a network share of 30.2%
The Block was the only reality TV show in town last night and it benefitted to the tune of 834,000 viewers which was the top non-news program and #1 in all key demos.
The cheating scandal fallout continued as Ronnie went hard and fast against Josh and Luke in a game of cul-de-sac cricket. Georgia was also frustrated that Tanya and Vito can have a visit from their kids because they live in Melbourne. And it looked like this anger will factor into whether they use the bonus point Gnome at reveals.
Tanya and Vito were also revealed to be having dire budget problems by being $10,000 in the red.
Nine then handed the night over to factual TV programming with Paramedics (472,000) and Kings Cross ER (137,000) airing back to back.
In the AFL markets, Footy Classified had 116,000 viewers.
Seven
Home and Away followed a strong lead-in from Seven News (1,086,000) with 612,000 viewers which was the top non-news show on Seven last night.
Seven continues to roll out the new factual TV show Nurses in its Wednesday 7:30pm slot with the show this week bringing in 378,000 viewers.
Seven then aired a back to back episode of its Aussie drama RFDS which had 427,000 and 396,000 viewers.
10
The Project had 300,000 (6:30pm) and 498,000 (7:00pm) as the show discussed the evidence of the Pfizer delay that left Australia at the back of the cue and a new product from the tobacco industry.
The first part of Todd Sampson‘s new film Mirror Mirror then aired with 584,000 viewers tuning in. In the series, Sampson explores the societal crisis of body image dissatisfaction and the manipulative trillion-dollar industries that profit from it.
“It’s multiple stories of people living really in the middle and on the edge of this crisis. The goal is to try and give different voices and perspectives around one problem, and that problem is the beauty ideal and how advertising, social media, television, and movies amplify the issue that we’re having with discontent,” Sampson told Mediaweek.
“In some ways, the episodes split into a very simple problem and solution series. The first episode really sets up a lot of the challenges that we face from diverse voices. Then the second one really narrows down to how bad this can get and what are the solutions.”
The first part of the series featured things not normally seen on commercial TV at 7:30 pm, a decision that Sampson lauded from 10.
“It is remarkable that this show is going on a commercial network that has The Bachelor and is showing this at 7:30 in the evening. We often mock commercial television and I’ve done the majority of my work on the ABC. But this is incredibly brave of the network to invest in and do something like this.”
See more: “The problem is everywhere”: Why Todd Sampson made Mirror Mirror
The episode was #2 in the 16-39 and 18-49 demographics and ironically beat out The Bachelor which was in the same timeslot last week and had 447,000 viewers.
ABC
Hard Quiz got the ABC’s comedy night off to a strong start with 591,000 viewers, this was then followed by Question Everything (410,000) with Wil Anderson and Jan Fran. Rosehaven then continued its last season with 399,000 viewers.
SBS
The top show on SBS was a repeat of Anne: The Princess Royal at 70 with 200,000.
