Weekend TV ratings Friday October 8, 2021

TV ratings

Better Homes and Gardens helps Seven to first win of the week

After a tough TV ratings Week 41, Seven has finally won a night. But after six nights, Seven trails Nine by close to 10 points in both primary and network share.

Total TV ratings Friday October 1

The ABC drama Des starring David Tennant had a remarkable increase in its overnight numbers in the week following the original broadcast. The second episode of the three-part series lifted 51% to 909,000.
The biggest audience increase for a commercial program was Better Homes and Gardens where the audience was up 4% to 894,000.

Overnight TV ratings Metro Friday October 8

Seven

Both half hours of Seven’s 6pm news bulletin were close to 820,000.
Better Homes and Gardens then averaged 466,000 across 90 minutes.
Seven’s Friday movie was Pearl Harbour with 224,000 watching.

Nine

Nine News was the #1 Friday program with 860,000 at 6pm.
The Friday edition of A Current Affair was a timeslot champ with 602,000.
Country House Hunters then did 307,000 and 260,000 for two episodes.
Nine’s Friday movie Downton Abbey was on 234,000.

10

The Project was the channel’s best, but it was down on recent weeks with 346,000 watching.
The Living Room was then on 299,000 after previous weeks above and below that mark.
An encore screening of The Graham Norton Show was on 199,000 followed by another screening of Have You Been Paying Attention? on 138,000.

ABC

ABC News was just short of 600,000 at 7pm.
Gardening Australia (host Costa pictured above) then delivered 466,000 ahead of the final episode of Des on 426,000. That was the best number for the David Tennant drama after 414,000 and 387,000 previously. Watch out for another big increase in its Total TV numbers next week.

SBS

The channel had a strong Friday of the back of 175,000 watching Endurance: The Hunt for Shackleton’s Ice Ship.
Earlier in the night the first episode of Legends of the Pharaohs was on 180,000.

Friday TV ratings metro shares primary and network

ABC 12.7% (17.5%)
Seven 19.6% (29.1%)
Nine 17.7% (26.4%)
10 9.9% (16.9%)
SBS 6.2% (10.1%)

See also: Weekend TV ratings Friday October 1, 2021

Friday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

 

1NINE NEWSChannel 9860,000
2SEVEN NEWSChannel 7838,000
3NINE NEWS 6:30Channel 9825,000
4SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30Channel 7823,000
5A CURRENT AFFAIRChannel 9602,000
6ABC NEWSABC TV599,000
7GARDENING AUSTRALIAABC TV466,000
8BETTER HOMES AND GARDENSChannel 7461,000
9THE CHASE AUSTRALIAChannel 7426,000
10DESABC TV426,000
11HOT SEATChannel 9401,000
12THE PROJECT 7PMChannel 10346,000
13COUNTRY HOUSE HUNTERS AUSTRALIAChannel 9307,000
14THE LIVING ROOMChannel 10299,000
15TIPPING POINTChannel 9290,000
1610 NEWS FIRSTChannel 10290,000
17THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PMChannel 7290,000
18COUNTRY HOUSE HUNTERS AUSTRALIA -TX1Channel 9260,000
19NINE’S AFTERNOON NEWSChannel 9255,000
20HOT SEAT 5PMChannel 9249,000

 

Friday TV Sports FTA and STV

 

TV ratings

Lewis Hamilton at Turkish Grand Prix

Formula 1

Fox Sports
Turkish Grand Prix
Practice 1: 46,000

 

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