Total TV ratings Saturday September 11
The biggest movers in the Total TV ratings for Saturday a week ago were The Durrells (+9% to 513,000), and The Trial of Christine Keeler (+18% to 302,00) on ABC. The biggest commercial channel mover was the Nine doco 9/11: Minute by Minute which lifted 10% to 311,000.
The biggest BVOD audience on Saturday a week ago was for the NRL Qualifying Final with 64,000.
Overnight TV ratings Metro Saturday September 18
Nine kicked winning Saturday goals in two codes last night with a big Saturday victory which was enough to push Nine’s network share ahead of Seven to win the week. (See separate feature about Week 38 TV ratings.)
TV ratings: Nine
Nine was a clear winner with the #1 ranked primary share, multichannel share and network share.
Nine’s embarrassment of football riches saw live matches on Nine and Gem.
The biggest audience was 690,000 watching Penrith Panthers set-up a Preliminary Final clash with Melbourne Storm. At the same time Panthers ended the season for Paramatta Eels. The audience in Sydney was 384,000 and in Brisbane 177,000. With no AFL in Melbourne the NRL audience in that market was 97,000.
Earlier in the day the Wallabies continued their winning form with a victory over South Africa with 336,000 watching. The audience splits were Sydney 148,000, Brisbane 89,000 and Melbourne 51,000.
Seven
The primary, multichannel and network shares all tumbled week-on-week with no AFL this weekend ahead of the Grand Final next Saturday night. The shares this time next week should make very different reading.
Seven News was the primary channel’s only primetime timeslot winner with 924,000.
Seven’s Saturday movie Ant-Man was on 280,000, screening in four markets.
10
Two shows managed to creep into the top 10 – 10 News First with 311,000 and then a repeat episode of The Dog House on 294,000.
ABC
Share jumped week-on-week with less live sport to compete with the English dramas. The Durrells was on 329,000.
The next best was a repeat episode of The Repair Shop just after 6pm with 250,000.
SBS
Castles: Secrets, Mysteries and Legends was the best performing for the channel with 181,000. Next best was SBS World News with 178,000/165,000 across the hour.
Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network
ABC 9.5% (15.1%)
Seven 16.8% (25.5%)
Nine 23.5% (36.5%)
10 7.6% (14.4%)
SBS 5.2% (8.5%)
See also: Weekend TV ratings Saturday September 11, 2021
Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 924,000 |
| 2 | NINE NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 919,000 |
| 3 | RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES SF2 | Gem, Channel 9 | 690,000 |
| 4 | ABC NEWS SATURDAY | ABC TV | 642,000 |
| 5 | RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES SF2 PRE MATCH | Gem, Channel 9 | 439,000 |
| 6 | GETAWAY | Channel 9 | 400,000 |
| 7 | THE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 AUS V RSA | Gem, Channel 9 | 336,000 |
| 8 | THE DURRELLS | ABC TV | 329,000 |
| 9 | LIVE: NRL: SF PANTHERS V EELS | FOX LEAGUE | 315,000 |
| 10 | 10 NEWS FIRST SATURDAY | Channel 10 | 311,000 |
| 11 | THE DOG HOUSE (R) | Channel 10 | 294,000 |
| 12 | RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL SERIES SF2 POST MATCH | Gem, Channel 9 | 293,000 |
| 13 | M: ANT-MAN | Channel 7 | 280,000 |
| 14 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY | Channel 7 | 279,000 |
| 15 | THE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 AUS V RSA POST MATCH | Gem, Channel 9 | 262,000 |
| 16 | THE REPAIR SHOP (R) | ABC TV | 250,000 |
| 17 | NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVE | Channel 9 | 246,000 |
| 18 | WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAY LATE | Channel 7 | 242,000 |
| 19 | WEEKEND TODAY SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 226,000 |
| 20 | ABC NEWS | ABC NEWS | 221,000 |
Saturday Sports FTA and STV
NRL
#NRLPanthersEels 1,522,000
Nine Saturday 1,080,000 (Metro 690,000 Regional 390,000)
Fox League 442,000
Rugby Union
Australia v South Africa
9Gem
464,000 (Metro 336,000 Regional 128,000)