TV Ratings April 21: Nine #1 thanks to Lego Masters

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• Hard Quiz has strong night despite tough competition

Primetime News
Seven News 947,000 (6 pm)/933,000 (6:30 pm)
Nine News is 909,000 (6 pm)/921,000 (6:30 pm)
ABC News 640,000
10 News First 343,000(5 pm)/232,000 (6pm)
SBS World News 177,000 (6:30 pm)/135,000 (7 pm)

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 701,000
7:30 541,000
The Project 287,000 (6:30 pm)/436,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 170,000 

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 255,000
Today 216,000
News Breakfast 180,000

Late Night News
ABC Late News 92,000
SBS World News Late 50,000

Nine

Nine has continued its strong Sunday to Wednesday performance so far this year, with another win. The broadcaster had a primary share of 20.8% and a network share of 29.0%.

Lego Masters was the top non-news program last night with 766,000. This was the lowest ratings that the show has had this season as its first week came to a close.

Lego Masters season three ratings:

Monday, April 19: 838,000
Tuesday, April 20: 782,000
Wednesday, April 21: 766,000

Lego Masters was followed by the Aussie drama Amazing Grace with 298,000, which was down on last weeks 403,000.

Seven

Seven aired a double of Highway Patrol last night in the 7:30 pm slot with 378,000 and 361,000 tuning in. Afterwards was the cinema classic Shawshank Redemption with 241,000.

Home and Away was the top rating show for Seven with a metro average of 573,000 viewers.

10

MasterChef has continued its launch week with 549,000 viewers tuning in last night, as the top 24 contestants were welcomed to the MasterChef kitchen with a mystery box challenge, selected by Back to Win champion, Emelia Jackson. Last night’s episode was down on Tuesday’s ratings which had 582,000.

This was followed by a Bull double with 244,000 and 143,000 viewers.

Earlier in the night, The Project had 287,000 (6:30 pm) and 436,000 (7:00 pm) as the show discussed the Gorge Floyd verdict, the Tamil family on Christmas Island, and the Big Bird bandits.

ABC

The ABC had a strong Wednesday night after Hard Quiz was able to outrate MasterChef with 653,000 viewers. This was followed by a strong audience on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering with 530,000.

Kitty Flanagan‘s Fisk has continued its strong run, outrating its preceding show The Weekly with 542,000 and was up slightly on last week’s 537,000.

SBS

The top show on SBS was Titanic: Dead Reckoning with 194,000 viewers.

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