Do you like sport? Well, I guess there are a few options for you then maybe…
Channel 7
Seven go large with Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (401,000 (322,000 Seven MEL/ADL; 79,000 7mate BNE/SYD/PER))
OR
Home & Away (352,000 (259,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER; 94,000 7TWO MEL/ADL))
Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (,000 (,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER; ,000 7mate MEL/ADL))
Inside Dubai (199,000 (161,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER; 38,000 7mate MEL/ADL))
Mayday: Air Crash Investigations (41,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER)
It all came back together with a repeat of The Front Bar (45,000).
Seven first in both primary (22.6%) and network (32.6%) rankings.
Channel 9
Nine’s night starts with A Current Affair (401,000 (Not BNE)) and then splits:
Thursday Night NRL Live (339,000 (310,000 Nine BNE/SYD; 29,000 9Gem MEL/ADL/PER))
Thursday Night Knock-Off (105,000 Nine BNE/SYD)
OR
RBT (182,000 (144,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER; 38,000 9Gem BNE/SYD))
Paramedics (132,000 (101,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER; 31,000 9Gem BNE/SYD))
Australia Behind Bars (75,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER).
It all comes back together with A+E After Dark (62,000).
Nine second in both primary (18.9%) and network (25.7%) rankings.
ABC
7:30 (402,000) and Foreign Correspondent (300,000) offers a solid audience on a Thursday for the ABC (given the sporting competition), followed by the season finale of Grand Designs: The Streets (208,000). Repeats of Griff’s Canadian Adventure (144,000), Art Works (77,000), and Back In Time For The Corner Shop (DNR) slide into the late night.
ABC third in primary (10.7%) and fourth in network (15.9%) rankings.
Channel 10
The Project (158,000 6:30pm; 219,000 7pm) isn’t offering any real competition from 10. Taskmaster Australia (235,000) isn’t drawing any bigger audience (it should be – it’s great!). Gogglebox Australia (368,000) is bucking the trend for the network though has a smaller audience than other seasons. A repeat of Harley Breen: Flat Out (97,000) adds a few viewers in the late evening.
10 fourth in primary (10.4%) and third in network (16.7%) rankings.
SBS
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry (84,000) does its best out of the gate for SBS, followed with a bigger audience for The Elon Musk Show (131,000). Stunning British drama Vigil (62,000) runs into the later night with a smaller audience.
SBS fifth in both primary (4.3%) and network (9%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (95,000) led Thursday Night NRL Live, Nine News 6:30pm, Seven News 6pm, and Nine News 6pm.
18-49: Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (148,000) beat out Nine News 6:30pm, Seven News 6:30pm, Gogglebox Australia, and Seven News 6pm.
25-54: Nine News 6:30pm (168,000) trumped Seven News 6:30pm, Gogglebox Australia, Nine News 6pm, and Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Bluey – AM (130,000) delivers a now standard multi-channel win for ABC Kids/TV Plus.
EVENING NEWS BATTLE
| Service | Time | O’nights (cume/avg) | Note |
| ABC News | 7pm-7:30pm | 520,000 | |
| SBS World News | 6:30pm-7:30pm | 113,000 | 127,000 6:30pm 98,000 7pm |
| Seven News | 6pm-7pm | 770,000 | 779,000 6pm 760,000 6:30pm |
| Nine News | 6pm-7pm | 649,000 | 660,000 6pm 638,000 6:30pm |
| 10 News First | 5pm-6:30pm | 207,000 5pm 139,000 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 211,000
The Today Show 192,000
ABC Breakfast 147,000 (93,000 ABC; 54,000 ABC News)
DAILY CONSOLIDATED 7 TOTAL TV
One change to the previous week’s primetime line-up after the Total TV figures were added: Thursday Night NRL Live (Nine) lifted 12% to 640,000; Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (Seven) lifted 1% to 592,000; and Taskmaster Australia (10) lifted 29% to 428,000.
The BVOD best was Home and Away (159,000).
Here’s the five shows that lifted the most from their overnight figures:
| Program | Network | Total TV | % lift |
| Gogglebox Australia | 10 | 641,000 | 37 |
| Home and Away | Seven | 810,000 | 36 |
| Taskmaster Australia | 10 | 428,000 | 29 |
| Grand Designs: The Streets | ABC | 298,000 | 23 |
| Foreign Correspondent | ABC | 371,000 | 14 |
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.
