With the Winter Olympics over, Nine has wrested back TV ratings dominance in the overnights for Week 9.
Nine won the first five nights of the week, including Sunday despite the Beijing Closing Ceremony on Seven.
Seven was the TV ratings leader on Friday and Saturday in a week where SAS Australia came off third-best, in the reality battle at 7.30pm.
10 was also more competitive post-Winter Games, although it remained locked in third place amongst the commercial channels and although primary and network share lifted, the former was still in single figures.
Monday-Friday News primetime
Seven 950,000/903,000
Nine 848,000/816,000
ABC 641,000
10 301,000 (5pm)
Monday-Friday Breakfast
Sunrise (Seven) 255,000
Today (Nine) 210,000
Outstanding newcomer: Dancing with the Stars: All Stars (Seven, 588,000)
Seven’s competitors will think we are being flexible with the term “outstanding”. However the new season of the Dancing was Seven’s #1 non-news show with a debut audience just under 600,000. The episode trailed the Sunday night episode of Married at First Sight by over 300,000. Given the strength of that Nine format, that’s almost a win for Seven.
Dancing was close to 100,000 ahead of the Sunday episode of Australian Survivor.
Seven: Network 26.7% (33.3%), Primary 19.2% (24.0%), 7TWO 3.3% (3.2%)
As mentioned above, the new season of Dancing with the Stars: All Stars was next best after Seven’s 6pm news bulletins.
Home and Away was again close to half a million for another week, but the audience managed to average just over that mark with 513,000.
The overnight numbers for a new season of SAS Australia disappointed with the launch on 467,000 with episodes on Tuesday and Wednesday under 400,000.
Married at First Sight
Nine: Network 30.3% (28.4%), Primary 22.2% (20.9%), Gem 2.6% (2.5%)
Married at First Sight was again the hottest non-news property of the week with all four episodes again cleaning up in all people and in the key demos Nine targets. Just like last week, two episodes were in the 900,000s and the other two were close to 830,000. All four found a spot in the top 10 for the week.
A Current Affair was up significantly week-on-week with 638,000 after 594,000 in Week 8.
10: Network 15.8% (14.3%), Primary 9.8% (8.7%), 10 Peach 2.7% (2.5%)
Australian Survivor was the most competitive offering with the three episodes screened all close to 500,000.
The Project had its best average for a few weeks with 369,000 at 7pm.
A new series of First Dates Australia on a new channel started with 334,000.
The next best programs were The Graham Norton Show on 278,000 (a cracking episode featured Helen Mirren and Adele) and Ambulance Australia on 266,000.
ABC: Network 18.6% (16.3%), Primary 12.9% (12.3%), ABC News 3.4% (1.8%)
Vera, Death in Paradise and Hard Quiz all joined the 7pm ABC News in the top 20 for the week.
The three entertainment properties all had audiences close to 600,000.
Two programs close to 540,000 were Back Roads and 7.30.
The third episode of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell was on 471,000, close to the 480,000 watching the week prior.
The invasion of Ukraine pushed the ABC News higher week-on-week.
Who Do You Think You Are? (UK)
SBS: Network 8.6% (7.7%), Primary 4.8% (4.2%), Viceland 1.5% (1.3%)
A UK episode of Who Do You Think You Are? again topped the rankings for the channel with 226,000 watching the David Walliams episode after 191,000 saw Jodie Whittaker the week before that.
Next best was Saturday night’s Eurovision Australia Decides (Winners Announced) with 189,000. Earlier in the evening The Votes section of that special event was on 171,000.
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