TV ratings Seven: 37.0% primary share, 11.3% 7mate, 53.0% network share
The second week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have continued to deliver Seven monster shares and record audiences.
The second Sunday of the competition saw a primary share of 45.4% while the Saturday of the Boomer’s bronze medal delivered a network share of 17.0% with a little bit of help from AFL.
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The biggest audience of the week was for the night session on Day 9 which was the climax of the day Australia won more gold medals than ever before. The metro audience was 2,070. It was also the night Seven News Sunday pulled an audience of 1,742,000, its best number in a decade.
Away from the Olympic competition, the second week of the Larry Emdur-hosted episodes of The Chase averaged 745,000 after he marked his return to games shows on 742,000 the week prior.
A Current Affair host Deborah Knight speaks to Jane Halton
Nine: 13.3% primary share, 18.8% network share
The shares slipped a little from last week as Nine looks forward coming out of Tokyo 2020 TV lockdown.
Nine News at 6pm performed best with a weeknight average of 1,053,000.
A Current Affair was next best after the news with 705,000 after 674,000 the week prior.
The highest-rating entertainment TV offering was the Sunday episode of Beauty and the Geek with 679,000. That episode managed to outrate the subsequent grand final episode which did 587,000/649,000.
Two other programs to crack 400,000 in a challenging week were 60 Minutes on 445,000 and Hot Seat which just missed half a million on 495,000.
10: 7.5% primary share, 12.7% network share
For the second successive week the Monday episode of Australian Survivor has drawn the biggest audience. In Week 31 it was 627,000 and this week it was 603,000. The other episodes screened were Sunday on 571,000 and Tuesday on 595,000.
Like all programming not on the host broadcaster, Have You Been Paying Attention? was impacted by Tokyo 2020 with 485,000 watching.
The Sunday Project 7pm was on 421,000 while the weekday 7pm episodes averaged 390,000.
Both episodes of The Bachelor were close to 370,000.
Laura Tingle with Grace Tame on 7.30
ABC: 7.6% primary share, 10.8% network share
The weekday ABC 7pm News hardly moved week-on-week. The Week 31 audience of 679,000 turned into 678,000 this week.
The last week of Laura Tingle guest-hosting 7.30 was on 527,000, down from 547,000 week-on-week.
Part one of the brilliant Luc Longley episode of Australian Story was on 515,000.
Kevin’s Grandest Designs did 441,000, Midsomer Murders was on 421,000, Mad As Hell 414,000, while Four Corners and Ms Represented both cracked 400,000 too.
SBS: 2.5% primary share, 4.6% network share
A repeat episode of Who Do You Think You Are? dodged the Olympics and had 198,000 watching.
SBS World News 6.30pm was on 157,000.
See also: TV ratings Week 31: Olympic records smashed in first week of Tokyo 2020