• Nine #1 as audiences dip on holiday eve Sunday night
• The Voice: opera singing barefoot surfer chooses Team Delta
• MasterChef top 10: Pie and sauce the start of downfall for Simon
Sunday news shows
Seven News 1,028,000
Nine News 996,000
ABC News 694,000
Insiders 471,000
The Project 274,000/420,000
10 News 329,000/238,000
Nine News Late Edition 329,000
Sunrise 241,000
Today 186,000
SBS World News 171,000
Seven: The grand final of House Rules: High Stakes couldn’t get over 600,000 with the two girls from Tassie, Kimmy & Rhi, getting an audience of 585,000 as they were named 2020 winners. The girls get $100,000 after being the ones to beat across the season.
Nine: Nine’s Sunday afternoon NRL had a metro audience of 301,000 and a regional crowd of 218,000 for a national audience of 519,000.
After the 6pm news it was time for episode seven of The Voice with more special voices including a couple of four chair turns including for the young opera singing barefoot surfer who chose Team Delta. The episode slipped below 900,000 for the first time with 874,000 watching.
60 Minutes featured Pete Evans with 639,000, down from 716,000 a week ago.
10: With Callum watching MasterChef from the balcony with immunity making him safe from elimination, the remaining 10 contestants competed to stay in the comp and score a spot in the top 10. The first of two rounds asked for a pie with sauce. The four who failed to impress the judges were Reynold, Sarah, Simon and Tessa. In the second cook it all went wrong for Simon who became the latest to head home. The audience of 803,000 was the smallest yet this season.
ABC: The second episode of Operation Buffalo was on 476,000 after the series launched on 555,000 a week ago. Earlier in the night Grand Designs was also on 476,000 as it tracked the build of a house on the edge of a cliff in Scotland.
SBS: The channel’s best was the 7.30pm repeat episode of London: 2,000 Years of History on 196,000.
Sunday Top 20 metro all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS SUNDAY | Channel 7 | 1,028,000 |
| 2 | NINE NEWS SUNDAY | Channel 9 | 996,000 |
| 3 | THE VOICE | Channel 9 | 874,000 |
| 4 | MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA SUNDAY | Channel 10 | 803,000 |
| 5 | ABC NEWS SUNDAY | ABC | 694,000 |
| 6 | 60 MINUTES | Channel 9 | 639,000 |
| 7 | HOUSE RULES: HIGH STAKES | Channel 7 | 585,000 |
| 8 | GRAND DESIGNS | ABC | 476,000 |
| 9 | OPERATION BUFFALO | ABC | 476,000 |
| 10 | THE SUNDAY PROJECT 7PM | Channel 10 | 420,000 |
| 11 | 10 NEWS FIRST SUNDAY | Channel 10 | 329,000 |
| 12 | NINE NEWS: LATE EDITION | Channel 9 | 329,000 |
| 13 | INSIDERS | ABC | 320,000 |
| 14 | SEVEN NEWS AT 5 | Channel 7 | 319,000 |
| 15 | SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE | Gem, Channel 9 | 301,000 |
| 16 | M- THE BLIND SIDE | Channel 7 | 290,000 |
| 17 | FBI: MOST WANTED | Channel 10 | 284,000 |
| 18 | THE SUNDAY PROJECT 6.30PM | Channel 10 | 274,000 |
| 19 | WEEKEND SUNRISE | Channel 7 | 241,000 |
| 20 | COMPASS | ABC | 238,000 |