While finals football is in the air, it’s not proving competitive on FTA – Thursdays are proving to be slow business all round.
Nine deliver their best in A Current Affair (734,000), which softens for the week. then we split based on the footy…in BNE/SYD you got: Thursday Night NRL Live (362,000) and Thursday Night Knock-Off (146,000); meanwhile in MEL/ADL/PER it was: RBT (198,000), Australian Crime Stories (164,000), and Reported Missing (98,000).
Nine first in primary (19%) and second in network (25.7%) rankings.
Seven see Home and Away (591,000; 502,000 late) slip a little with their now traditional Thursday night triple ep, and then in BNE/SYD you got a repeat MOVIE: New Year’s Eve (80,000), coupled with a late repeat of The Front Bar (395,000), which ran much earlier in MEL/ADL/PER where it was paired with a repeat of Billy Connolly: Made In Scotland (101,000). The Paralympics doing strong business in primetime on 7mate.
Seven second in primary (18.8%) and first in network (31.3%) rankings.
10 sees The Project (283,000 6:30pm; 485,000 7pm) fall a little – strange given it was the lead in to the finale of The Bachelor Australia (604,000 avg (578,000 finale; 629;000 decision)) which handed the network the best numbers of it’s ninth and lowest-rating season to date. A double repeat of Law & Order: SVU (219,000; 156,000) and new Blue Bloods (110,000) closed out a smaller night that should have been much bigger than it was.
10 third in both primary (13.3%) and network (19.6%) rankings.
The 7:30 (544,000) and Foreign Correspondent (404,000) double starts the night as the ABC’s best. Q+A (258,000) slides up a little on last week, though still not great numbers, while Fake or Fortune? (177,000) completes the schedule.
ABC fourth in both primary (10.7%) and network (14.8%) rankings.
SBS’s night started with a repeat of Great Asian Railway Journeys (209,000), then a new ep of Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve (140,000), and the season five finale of The Good Fight (46,000).
SBS fifth in both primary (4.3%) and network (8.6%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: The Bachelor Australia – Finale Decision (204,000) conquered The Bachelor Australia – Finale, The Project 7pm, and Nine News 6pm/6:30pm.
18-49: The Bachelor Australia – Finale Decision (296,000) beat out The Bachelor Australia – Finale, Nine News 6:30pm/6pm, and The Project 7pm.
25-54: Nine News 6:30pm (317,000) came in ahead of Nine News 6pm, The Bachelor Australia – Finale Decision/Finale, and Seven News 6:30pm.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: Day 9 – Night (272,000) on 7mate slid into first in the competitive multi-channel race.
BREKKY BATTLE
Sunrise (284,000)
The Today Show (233,000)
ABC Breakfast (210,000 (124,000 ABC; 86,000 ABC News))
All figures Five City Metro (5CM); overnights only.
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