The ABC’s night of comedy holds its ground and nerve against its commercial rivals.
A Current Affair (593,000) maintains the rage for Nine, as The Block (726,000)
hits its lowest point for the week, allowing the audience to have big expectations for Sunday’s room reveals. After that it turns to cobbled together, very dodgy pretend documentary programming in Britney and Kevin – Family Feud (235,000) and a repeat of The Rise and Fall of Janet Jackson (110,000). A new episode of Family Law (33,000) fills out the late night.
Nine first in both primary (22%) and network (31.5%) rankings.
Home & Away (457,000) again take the mantle as Seven’s best for the evening, though
Kitchen Nightmares Australia (362,000) slides on week one, but is coming into its own after only two eps and Colin Fassnidge is finding his mark as the grumpy Mr Fixit of the Aussie restaurant world. The later night offers an unsuccessful Extreme Weddings Australia (125,000), before turning to Air Crash Investigations (123,000) and a new ep of The Amazing Race US (46,000) to round things out.
Seven second in both primary (17%) and network (25.8%) rankings.
7:30 (514,000) and Hard Quiz (528,000) remain a gloriously symbiotic pair on a Wednesday night, doing their best to topple everything (and coming close, landing second in primetime). Question Everything (381,000) and the finale of Summer Love (272,000) also do well in the later night, taking the slot easily. Both significantly up on last week. Repeats of Would I Lie To You? (188,000), The Witchfinder (74,000), and Spicks and Specks (31,000) complete Aunty’s largely comedy-driven evening.
ABC third in both primary (13.9%) and network (19.4%) rankings.
The Project (224,000 6:30pm; 289,000 7pm) again struggles – and not surprising given it is leading into another capitulating repeat of The Dog House Australia (231,000). The Real Love Boat Australia (141,000) picks up a little on last week, though it was never going to do well in its all-new timeslot, leaving My Life Is Murder (70,000) high and dry on linear broadcast, not even gaining traction in the Total TV figures.
10 fourth in both primary (8.6%) and network (15.4%) rankings.
The brilliant Lost for Words (86,000) leads SBS’s night, followed by a repeat of Secret Scotland (126,000) and the also brilliant FTA screening of Nine Perfect Strangers (70,000).
SBS fifth in both primary (4.1%) and network (7.8%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: The Block (123,000) beat out Seven News 6:30pm/6pm, Nine News 6:30pm, and Home and Away.
18-49: The Block (230,000) led Seven News 6:30pm, Nine News 6:30pm/6pm, and Seven News 6pm.
25-54: The Block (294,000) brings home another triple demo win, followed by Seven News 6:30pm/6pm, and Nine News 6:30pm/6pm.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Bluey – AM (132,000) on ABC Kids/TV Plus proves it is the number 1 multi-channel program yet again.
EVENING NEWS BATTLE
| Service | Time | O’nights (cume/avg) | Note |
| ABC News | 7pm-7:30pm | 595,000 | |
| SBS World News | 6:30pm-7:30pm | 111,000 | 124,000 6:30pm 97,000 7pm |
| Seven News | 6pm-7pm | 802,000 | 803,000 6pm 801,000 6:30pm |
| Nine News | 6pm-7pm | 694,000 | 685,000 6pm 702,000 6:30pm |
| 10 News First | 5pm-6:30pm | 236,000 5pm 170,000 6pm |
SBS World News averaged ((6:30pm+7pm)/2) to obtain total program figure.
Seven News/Nine News figures averaged ((6pm+6:30pm)/2) to obtain total program figure.
BREKKY BATTLE
Sunrise (219,000)
The Today Show (185,000)
ABC Breakfast (173,000 (111,000 ABC; 62,000 ABC News))
DAILY CONSOLIDATED 7 TOTAL TV
No changes to the previous week’s primetime line-up after the Total TV figures were added: The Block (Nine) lifted 36% to 1,437,000; Kitchen Nightmares Australia (Seven) lifted 26% to 903,000; and The Dog House Australia (10) lifted 8% to 344,000.
The BVOD best were The Block (247,000) and Home and Away (134,000).
Here’s the five shows that lifted the most from their overnight figures:
| Program | Network | Total TV | % lift |
| The Block | Nine | 1,437,000 | 36 |
| Summer Love | ABC | 437,000 | 32 |
| Kitchen Nightmares Australia | Seven | 903,000 | 26 |
| Home and Away | Seven | 929,000 | 24 |
| Would I Lie To You? | ABC | 294,000 | 17 |
Primary Channels, Multi-Channels, Shares, Subscription TV, Key Demos, Brekky Battle: All figures Total People, Five City Metro (5CM); overnights only.
Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV: All figures Total People, Consolidated 7 day Five City Metro (5CM) + Regional (Reg) + BVOD (Broadcast Video on Demand); % lift compared to overnight figures.
Top 20 Overnight Metro
Top 20 Multi-Channel Shows
Overnight Network Share
Top 20 Foxtel Shows
Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV Program Rankings
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Note: Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs. Programs with the same name on one or more primary or multichannel, are aggregated into one network figure.
