Sunday Week 37 2019
• Ashes victory a win for Nine as network metro share hits 45%
• Scotty gets steamed on The Block in clash with Mitch and Mark
• Plus: AGT goes OK against all odds, not so much Pilot Week
• Nine News 1,058,000
• Seven News 977,000
• ABC News 657,000
• The Project 265,000/359,000
• Insiders 333,000
• 10 News First 267,000
• Seven News at 5 266,000
• Offsiders 193,000
• SBS World News 179,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 266,000
• Today 217,000
Seven
Against the biggest Sunday episode of The Block and what was the deciding day of The Ashes, Seven should be happy with 700,000 watching another semi-final of Australia’s Got Talent. That was the fourth semi with, can you believe it, one to follow next week.
Sunday Night then did 390,000.
Nine
On a night where The Ashes was going to be the big star, The Block stood up taller than ever with a huge 1.145m watching the rooms being delivered. It was the biggest Block audience this season. When it came time to reveal the judging, tensions rose as Mitch and Mark challenged Scotty Cam as he read out the judges’ commentary. That blow-up looks like continuing tonight.
60 Minutes then did well against the cricket too with 694,000, thanks in part to media reacting to Karl Stefanovic’s story on British royalty.
The final day of the fourth test and the day that decided the fate of The Ashes saw 9Gem on a share of 17.8%. When you factor in all of Nine’s contributors it recorded a network Sunday share of 45.9%. Melbourne viewers really got behind the mix of content with share on 49.9%.
The cricket had a first session audience of 810,000 while the lunch break drew 571,000 and then the second session did 477,000. The cricket coverage is the most-watched multichannel program this year and it was 9Gem’s third-highest rating show ever.
10
The primary channel went into battle last night without a loaded gun – no episode of Survivor, instead it was replaced by Ambulance Australia. The combo of that and the launch of Pilot Week delivered one of Network 10’s lowest ever Sunday shares – 6.5%.
A long episode of Ambulance Australia was on 249,000 after 7pm.
That wasn’t a great lead-in for the launch of Pilot Week, which was also head-to-head with Ashes cricket. 10 managed some good weekend coverage for Sydney’s Crazy Rich Asians, yet the audience watching was 175,000 after 9pm.
Earlier in the night The Sunday Project was on 359,000 after 7pm.
ABC
Another animal doco took the 7.40pm Sunday slot last night, with 451,000 watching Hippos, narrated by David Attenborough of course.
The Aussie dramas did their best against some heavy hitters – Les Norton was on 320,000 and then Glitch did 105,000.
SBS
A lot of the footage in 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America looked very familiar. It was still as powerful when it was first shown and they are images that will never be forgotten. The two-hour plus doco did 261,000 after 7.30pm.
