• 10 also performs well in key demos thanks to Thursday night pairing
• With no NRL, Nine goes with go to programming in RBT
Primetime News
Seven News 1,013,000/985,000
Nine News 1,005,000/996,000
ABC News 688,000
10 News First 341,000 (5:00pm)/ 226,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 194,000 (6:30pm) 147,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 741,000
7.30 563,000
The Project 276,000 (6:30pm)/482,000 (7pm)
The Drum 181,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 254,000
News Breakfast 236,000
Today 219,000
Late News
The Latest 287,000
ABC Late News 114,000
Nine News Late 90,000
Seven
In a close content between all the commercial stations last night, Seven managed to edge out the competition to have the top primary (18.9%) and network (27.6%) share.
Home and Away was the top non-news program on Seven last night after airing its regular Thursday night tiple header. The first two episodes had an average of 567,000 viewers while the last ep had 508,000.
The Front Bar had 381,000 as the show featured Barry Stoneham and Steven O’Dwyer. The show had 258,000 viewers tuning in from Melbourne, making it the top non-news show in the city.
The Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds rom-com The Proposal brought in 145,000 viewers on Seven and 7flix.
Nine
A Current Affair had 741,000 as the show covered business owners concerns about the roadmap out of lockdown that has been announced by the New South Wales government.
With no NRL last night due to the finals series starting, Nine aired an episode of RBT with 463,000 viewers.
A repeat of Australian Crime Stories then had 345,000 as the show covered dirty cop Mark Standen.
10
The Project had 276,000 (6:30pm) and 482,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the roadmap out of the NSW lockdown and the no vax no play policy.
Todd Sampson‘s Mirror Mirror then aired its second half with 613,000 tuning in for the completion of the series. The show once again performed well in the key demographics by finishing #2 in 16-39 and 18-49. The second part was up slightly on part one which had 584,000 on Wednesday night.
Gogglebox then returned to FTA with 633,000 viewers tuning in for the premiere. The show was the top non-news show of the night and was also #1 in all key demos.
The success of Mirror Mirror and Gogglebox gave 10 the top two entertainment programs of the night.
ABC
Foreign Correspondent had 387,000 viewers as the show covered the issues of African cultural artefacts residing in European museums.
Q+A was live from Melbourne with Virginia Trioli as the episode collaborated with the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. The episode had 313,000 viewers
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS last night was Great Asian Railway Journeys with 228,000 viewers.
