The ABC Friday night double enjoyed the biggest gains in Total TV ratings data.

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Better Homes leads Seven to Friday night win, ABC screens final Annika

Total TV ratings Friday November 12

The ABC Friday night double enjoyed the biggest gains in Total TV ratings data.
The penultimate episode of crime drama Annika was up 24% on the overnight figures to a Total TV audience of 722,000. Preceding it on the channel was Gardening Australia with a climb of 17% from its original overnight to a Total TV crowd of 824,000.
Better Homes and Gardens managed the biggest Friday non-news Total TV audience with 828,000. Although its overnight numbers only edged higher by 4%, it was the impressive Seven Queensland/Prime regional audience of 323,000 that pushed it ahead of Gardening Australia.
10 had two shows lifting their overnight numbers by over 10% – The Graham Norton Show (+12%) and Have You Been Paying Attention? Encore (+11%).

Overnight TV ratings Metro Friday November 12

Seven

Both major 6pm news bulletins failed to crack 800,000 last night. Seven News had the biggest audience with 789,000 and 763,000 across the hour.
Better Homes and Gardens then did 437,000 to rank #1 non-news, although the number was down from 472,000 a week ago.
Seven’s Friday movie was The Holiday on 217,000.

Nine

Nine News was a winner in Melbourne across the hour, yet it trailed Seven across the network. The network number was just over 700,000 for the hour.
Friday’s A Current Affair was then on 499,000 after 546,000 seven days ago.
Taronga: Who’s Who in the Zoo held just over 300,000 after 7.30pm.
Nine’s Friday movie was A Few Good Men on 224,000, well below the 370,000 watching Skyfall a week ago, but narrowly ahead of Seven’s Friday movie.

10

In primetime The Project just managed to crack 250,000 to be the channel’s #1. It was followed by The Graham Norton Show on 243,000.
The channel’s biggest Friday audience though was again watching 10 News First at 5pm with 263,000.
The encore screening of the 2021 final episode of Have You Been Paying Attention? was on 182,000.

ABC

The Gardening Australia audience was down again this week, dipping from 461,000 to 429,000 week-on-week.
The series final of Annika just made the Friday top 10 with 374,000 watching episode six of the Scottish crime drama.
Tea with the Dames was then on 200,000.

SBS

After a feature-length doco on the London Blitz a week ago, the primary channel focused on World War II and the events leading up to it with multiple episodes of Hitler: Countdown to War which averaged 142,000, pushing up the channel’s share week-on-week.

Friday TV ratings metro shares primary and network

ABC 13.7% (18.9%)
Seven 19.2% (29.5%)
Nine 17.7% (26.2%)
10 8.4% (16.2%)
SBS 5.4% (9.2%)

See also: Weekend TV ratings Friday November 12, 2021

Friday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

 

1SEVEN NEWSChannel 7789,000
2SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30Channel 7763,000
3NINE NEWSChannel 9707,000
4NINE NEWS 6:30Channel 9704,000
5ABC NEWSABC TV537,000
6A CURRENT AFFAIRChannel 9499,000
7BETTER HOMES AND GARDENSChannel 7437,000
8GARDENING AUSTRALIAABC TV429,000
9THE CHASE AUSTRALIAChannel 7401,000
10ANNIKAABC TV374,000
11HOT SEATChannel 9344,000
12TARONGA: WHO’S WHO IN THE ZOOChannel 9315,000
1310 NEWS FIRSTChannel 10263,000
14HOT SEAT 5PMChannel 9255,000
15THE PROJECT 7PMChannel 10254,000
16TIPPING POINTChannel 9247,000
17THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PMChannel 7247,000
18THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOWChannel 10243,000
19SUNRISEChannel 7242,000
20NINE’S AFTERNOON NEWSChannel 9237,000

 

Friday TV Sports FTA and STV

 

Supercars

Fox Sports
Sydney Practice 1: 47,000

Cricket

WBBL Fox Cricket
Heat v Thunder 44,000
Hurricanes v Renegades 33,000

Forumla 1

Fox Sports
Qatar Grand Prix
Practice 1: 40,000

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