Total TV Friday November 5
The biggest percentage rise for a commercial TV program was the encore screening of Have You Been Paying Attention? with the overnight TV ratings audience lifting 15%. The Total TV number wasn’t the biggest for the night though, with 270,000 ranking the program at #28 for the day.
Nine’s Taronga Who’s Who in the Zoo and the movie Casino Royale were both up 6%. Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens was up 5%.
The biggest movers again though overall were the ABC’s Gardening Australia (862,000 after 479,000 metro overnight) and Annika (762,000 from 429,000 metro overnight).
Overnight TV Metro Friday November 12
Bert Newton State Funeral
The State Funeral for Bert Newton from Melbourne had an audience over three-quarters of a million on Friday Morning. Below is a summary of the numbers we have so far.
Nine/Gem 372,000 (Metro 281,000/Regional 91,000)
Seven 327,000 (Metro 215,000/Regional 112,000)
ABC News 45,000 (Metro)
Sky News 24,000 (National)
Seven
Seven News was 823,000 and then 815,000 across the 6pm hour.
Better Homes and Gardens won its timeslot with 472,000.
Seven’s movie Little Women was on 219,000, well behind the James Bond offering on Nine.
Nine
Nine News was a winner in Sydney and Melbourne, yet trailed Seven across the network.
The Friday edition of A Current Affair was on 546,000.
The hour of Taronga Who’s Who in the Zoo trailed both gardening and lifestyle shows on offer at Seven and the ABC.
Nine’s key to the Friday victory was the programming of a recent James Bond classic in a big week for the franchise. Skyfall was the movie with 370,000 watching.
10
The channel’s best were both just on 270,000 – 10 News First at 5pm and then an episode of The Graham Norton Show at 7.30pm.
The Project is finding it a challenge to attract a bigger Friday crowd with 253,000 at 7pm.
ABC
Gardening Australia slipped below Better Homes and Gardens in average audience, with 461,000 watching Costa and his crew.
The Scottish crime drama Annika was then just under 400,000.
SBS
Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley didn’t attract the crowd some might have expected with 70,000 watching after 8.30pm. The program investigated life in London during World War II through the memories of people who chronicled their experiences.
Earlier in the night Legends of the Pharaohs was on 124,000.
Friday TV ratings metro shares primary and network
ABC 12.2% (17.8%)
Seven 20.0% (29.1%)
Nine 22.3% (29.3%)
10 8.9% (15.7%)
SBS 3.9% (8.1%)
See also: Weekend TV ratings Friday November 5, 2021
Friday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS | Channel 7 | 823,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 | Channel 7 | 815,000 |
| 3 | NINE NEWS | Channel 9 | 753,000 |
| 4 | NINE NEWS 6:30 | Channel 9 | 723,000 |
| 5 | ABC NEWS | ABC TV | 566,000 |
| 6 | A CURRENT AFFAIR | Channel 9 | 546,000 |
| 7 | BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS | Channel 7 | 472,000 |
| 8 | GARDENING AUSTRALIA | ABC TV | 461,000 |
| 9 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA | Channel 7 | 447,000 |
| 10 | ANNIKA | ABC TV | 393,000 |
| 11 | SKYFALL | Channel 9 | 370,000 |
| 12 | TARONGA: WHO’S WHO IN THE ZOO | Channel 9 | 357,000 |
| 13 | HOT SEAT | Channel 9 | 357,000 |
| 14 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA 5PM | Channel 7 | 285,000 |
| 15 | STATE FUNERAL FOR BERT NEWTON | Gem, Channel 9 | 281,000 |
| 16 | SUNRISE | Channel 7 | 271,000 |
| 17 | 10 NEWS FIRST | Channel 10 | 270,000 |
| 18 | THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW | Channel 10 | 269,000 |
| 19 | NINE’S AFTERNOON NEWS | Channel 9 | 261,000 |
| 20 | NINE’S MORNING NEWS | Channel 9 | 260,000 |
Friday TV Sports FTA and STV
Cricket
Fox Cricket
T20 World Cup Semi-Final
Australia v Pakistan 84,000/82,000
Four repeat screenings of the match across the day on Fox Cricket had a combined audience of 106,000.