Nine continued to dominate the TV ratings as we farewell the Easter survey break and we roll deeper into April. Since Week 7, Nine’s winning primary share has stubbornly held above 22% while its winning network share hasn’t fallen below 30%.
TV ratings winner: Nine Network 22.1% (30.8%)
Married at First Sight again dominated the TV ratings week with just three episodes with no Easter Sunday screening. The franchise reached a 2021 series high with 1.121m watching on Monday as all episodes again passed 1m for the third consecutive week.
In BVOD MAFS continues to dominate the rankings with the most-watched episode so far being episode four with 473,000 viewers.
Nine’s A Current Affair pushed just above 700,000 in its weekly average, while 60 Minutes also made the top 20 for the week on 585,000.
Seven Network 18.5% (27.4%)
The primary and network shares lifted this week, but Seven still lacked a TV ratings contender in the early evening entertainment slots.
Home and Away averaged 490,000 and Better Homes and Gardens did 452,000.
The AFL’s best was 587,000 on Seven and 7mate on Friday night while Thursday was on 541,000.
10 Network 8.8% (16.8%)
Gogglebox was the standout performer on 537,000 with just two episodes left in this current series. The next best in the 7.30pm timeslots was Territory Cops on 310,000 with both Bondi Rescue and The Cube just under 300,000. MasterChef will bring some stability to the schedule when it returns next week.
The Project 7pm was on 391,000, well ahead of the Sunday episode in the same timeslot on 265,000.
ABC Network 12.2% (16.9%)
The broadcaster traditionally performs well over Easter although its primary share was the lowest since January. That didn’t stop a raft of programs cracking the top 20 for the week.
Hard Quiz ranked alongside the ABC News as the channel’s best with 651,000 watching the game show. Nor far behind was the first episode of Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds on 591,000. Fisk and The Weekly also performed strongly with both close to 550,000.
SBS Network 4.8% (8.1%)
No factual programming featuring railways starred this week. The four shows cracking the 200,000 mark were the doco Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck on 228,000, Historic House Rescue on 216,000, a repeat episode of Who Do You Think You Are? featuring Scott Cam on 214,000 and Tony Robinson’s History of Britain on 203,000.
See also: Week 14 TV ratings