Overnight TV ratings Week 13
Three nights of AFL again pushed Seven into TV ratings winning network and primary positions Thursday, Friday and Saturday. However, the rush late in the week wasn’t enough to stop Nine from a weekly win after four strong nights of Married at First Sight. Those four episodes were the four most-watched programs of the week, one episode over one million (Sunday) and the other three episodes all close to 950,000.
Seven’s AFL performed best on Friday night with interest in the goal haul from Buddy Franklin who scored his 1000th goal in the fourth quarter, delaying the game by around 30 minutes after a memorable lengthy pitch invasion. The audience watching the game around the time Buddy went into four figures was 633,000.
Total TV
Special mention of Nine’s Married at First Sight as it continues to be the undisputed #1 program on Australian television. Eight episodes have now been viewed by more than two million viewers in Total TV data, while 16 episodes are closing in on two million viewers (each with more than 1.8 million viewers) once BVOD and time-shifted viewing figures are included.
Monday-Friday News primetime
Seven 895,000/854,000
Nine 824,000/805,000
ABC 602,000
10 298,000 (5pm)
SBS 167,000 (6.30pm)
Monday-Friday Breakfast
Sunrise (Seven) 250,000
Today (Nine) 214,000
New this week: The line-up of sports competing for attention was enough to brand the night Super Thursday. In addition to a clash of the NRL and AFL codes, Network 10 was screening a Socceroos World Cup Qualifier and Fox Sports was carrying the final day’s play in the final Test Match of the Australia v Pakistan series.
Here are the Thursday metro numbers for each:
AFL 575,000 (inc Fox Footy 174,000)
NRL 400,000 (inc Fox League 123,000)
Socceroos 321,000 (10)
Test Cricket 86,000 (Fox Cricket)
Seven: Network 29.3% (29.3%), Primary 19.6% (20.2%), 7mate 4.2%
After News and the Friday night AFL, Dancing with the Stars performed the best with 491,000 as the series decides the first of the competitors who will make the Grand Final.
Home and Away started to climb higher again, up from 433,000 to 456,000 week-on-week.
The channel screened a Shane Warne tribute mid-week put together by EQ Media Group which attracted a respectable 445,000.
The two episodes of SAS Australia did 373,000 (Tuesday) and 313,000 (Monday).
Nine: Network 30.3% (30.5%), Primary 22.6% (22.8%), GO!/Gem 2.3%
The four episodes screened of Married at First Sight again did brilliant business with audiences close to 950,000 or better.
A Current Affair was on 659,000 after 642,000 a week ago. 60 Minutes had another week over 600,000 too.
The Hundred with Andy Lee continues to be consistent with just under half a million again.
10: Network 16.0% (15.7%), Primary 9.9% (9.8%), 10 Bold 2.9% (2.7%)
Nothing over half a million, but Australian Survivor Monday got very close with 497,000.
Not far behind was the Sunday episode on 466,000 while The Dog House Australia made it to 460,000.
Gogglebox had a rare outing on Wednesday night because of the Socceroos commitment on Thursday, with 434,000 watching the TV critics after 481,000 on the Thursday in Week 12.
The Project 7pm was on 325,000, bang on the number from the previous week.
ABC: Network 15.9% (16.3%), Primary 11.0% (11.0%), ABC News 2.3% (2.8%)
7.30 was next best after the 7pm news bulletins with the Leigh Sales-hosted program on 491,000 after 457,000 a week ago.
Hard Quiz was on 477,000 while Australian Story and Four Corners were both just over 450,000.
Also over 400,000 were Media Watch (443,000) and Father Brown (411,000).
SBS: Network 8.5% (8.1%), Primary 4.7% (4.5%), Viceland/Food 1.2% (1.2%)
A new season of the Noni Hazlehurst-hosted Every Family has a Secret from Artemis Media was the biggest drawcard at SBS for the week with 214,000.
Next best was the documentary Zelensky: The Man Who Took on Putin with 196,000.
Numbers in brackets are previous week share. Source: OzTAM. Metro overnight ratings unless otherwise stated.