TV Ratings April 13: MAFS #1 as Nine airs second half of the commitment ceremony

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• 588K tune in as Schapelle Corby departs DWTS

• Anh’s Brush with Fame has an international flavour with Jane Seymour

Primetime News
Seven News 998,000/1.019m
Nine News 959,000/921,000
ABC News 688,000
10 News First 358,000 (5:00 pm)/ 226,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 196,000/158,000

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 740,000
7.30 627,000
The Project 274,000 (6:30 pm)/ 436,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 199,000

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 257,000
Today 201,000
News Breakfast 185,000

Late News
The Latest 124,000
ABC Late News 155,000

Nine

Married at First Sight powered Nine to #1 again last night with a primary share of 24.7% and a network share of 32.4%. MAFS had 1.032m tune in for the second half of the show’s vow renewals as Liam and Georgia‘s relationship crumbled during the vows. However, on a more positive note, Rebecca and Jake and Belinda and Patrick had happy endings.

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Following MAFS, The special Botched: Most Shocking Patients had 398,000 tune in which was up on last week’s regular episode of Botched which had 310,00.

Seven

On Dancing with the Stars last night 588,000 tuned in as Schapelle Corby’s short run on the show came to an end after the 43-year-old was eliminated.

In the bottom two with Matty J, Corby’s version of the jive wasn’t good enough to keep her in the competition. This was up on Monday night’s episode of DWTS which had 558,000.

DWTS was followed by a double of The Good Doctor with audiences of 305,000 and 243,000.

Home and Away was the top non-news show on Seven with 605,000 viewers.

10

The Cube is nearing the end of its first season, airing its penultimate episode last night as sisters Lina and Nawal had redemption on their mind after the pair previously appeared on Family Feud, where a wrong answer from Nawal cost the family $10,000. The episode brought in 219,000 which was the lowest ratings for the show this year.

This was followed by a double of NCIS that brought in 215,000 and 188,000 viewers.

On The Project, 274,000 (6:30 pm) and 436,000 (7:00 pm) watched as the show covered Christine Holgate‘s testimony, MRNA vaccines, and the Manuka Honey trademark tussle. 

10 Peach had a rare multichannel win with 3.0%.

ABC

Anh’s Brush with Fame featured famed actress Jane Seymour who has been everything from a Bond girl to a medicine woman, to being the oldest person to appear in Playboy. The episode had 549,000 viewers which was slightly down on last week’s episode with Kate Ritchie (556,000).

This was followed by ABC’s sleeper hit, Old People’s Home for 4 year olds which had 546,000 viewers, this was down on last week’s season premiere which had 593,000.

7:30 also had strong numbers last night with 627,000 viewers, the episode was hosted by Laura Tingle and featured former Aus Post CEO Christine Holgate.

SBS

The top rating show on SBS last night was a repeat of Who Do You Think You Are? with 209,000 viewers.

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