If it wasn’t on the ABC largely the audience didn’t care for it in linear broadcast terms.
Channel 9
Nine’s best A Current Affair (649,000) lifts the network, supported in a very small way by repeats of Travel Guides (290,000) and RBT (247,000). World Aquatics Championships – Finals (238,000) drew in a bigger than usual later night crowd, as the night closed out with The Equalizer (50,000).
Nine first in both primary (20.6%) and network (29.6%) rankings.
Channel 7
Seven push hard with Home & Away (454,000) and ABBA Silver, ABBA Gold (372,000), though the latter manages a distant second place in primetime. The Front Bar (305,000 (148,000 MEL)) again only performs well in the southern capital ahead of a late-night FIFA Women’s World Cup: Pre-Game (118,000) and FIFA Women’s World Cup: CAN v IRE (148,000).
Seven second in both primary (19.9%) and network (29.3%) rankings.
ABC
7:30 (433,000) paired with the season final of Utopia (504,000) delivers a big win for the ABC in primetime. Gruen (458,000) and Gold Diggers (195,000) continue to do good business following. The season final of Queen of Oz (128,000) and Adam Hills: The Last Leg (95,000) fill out the later night, chased by a repeat of Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World (DNR).
ABC third in both primary (13.4%) and network (18.1%) rankings.
Channel 10
The Project (182,000 6:30pm; 260,000 7pm) continued to slip through the week for 10, while The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race (202,000) proved to be criminally under-appreciated. So Help Me Todd (76,000) and repeat of FBI (40,000) proved with small audiences they are for fans only.
10 fourth in both primary (7.9%) and network (14.8%) rankings.
SBS
Another brilliant episode of Who The Bloody Hell Are We? (89,000) led SBS’s night, followed by a repeat of Titanic: Genesis of a Giant (76,000) and Anne Boleyn (39,000).
SBS fifth in both primary (3.6%) and network (8.1%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: Nine News 6:30pm/6pm (107,000) led A Current Affair, and Seven News 6pm/6:30pm.
18-49: Nine News 6pm (167,000) beat Nine News 6:30pm, Seven News 6pm/6:30pm, and A Current Affair.
25-54: Nine News 6pm (212,000) delivers a triple-demo crown, followed by Seven News 6pm, Nine News 6:30pm, Seven News 6:30pm, and A Current Affair.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Vera – EV (104,000) on ABC Kids/TV Plus lands the multi-channel win.
EVENING NEWS BATTLE
| Service | Time | O’nights (cume/avg) | Note |
| ABC News | 7pm-7:30pm | 555,000 | |
| SBS World News | 6:30pm-7:30pm | 116,000 | 135,000 6:30pm 96,000 7pm |
| Seven News | 6pm-7pm | 874,000 | 902,000 6pm 845,000 6:30pm |
| Nine News | 6pm-7pm | 784,000 | 799,000 6pm 768,000 6:30pm |
| 10 News First | 5pm-6:30pm | 213,000 5pm 159,000 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 217,000
The Today Show 183,000
ABC Breakfast 153,000 (104,000 ABC; 49,000 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 Ashes: Fourth Test Day 1 S1 (Nine) lifted 15% to 1,311,000; Hunted Australia (10) lifted 41% to 862,000; and Animals Abroad with Dr Harry (Seven) lifted 8% to 455,000.
The BVOD best were The Ashes: Fourth Test Day 1 S1 AND Utopia (168,000), Home and Away (141,000), Hunted Australia (122,000), and The Ashes: Fourth Test Day 1 Lunch (108,000).
Here’s the five shows that lifted the most from their overnight figures:
| Program | Network | Total TV | % lift |
| Utopia | ABC | 970,000 | 55 |
| Gruen | ABC | 834,000 | 42 |
| Hunted Australia | 10 | 862,000 | 41 |
| Riptide | 10 | 309,000 | 40 |
| Home and Away | Seven | 925,000 | 28 |
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
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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.
