TV Ratings August 17, 2021: The Voice continues to bring in over 1m metro viewers and pushes Seven to #1

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• Redemption Rock pushes Survivor to win key demo

• Best of the rest: The Block, Back to Nature, The Hundred, Australia: Now and Then

Primetime News
Seven News 1,216,000/1,114,000
Nine News 1,109,000/1,060,000
ABC News 752,000
10 News First 413,000 (5:00pm)/ 276,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 200,000 (6:30pm)/ 155,000 (7:00pm)

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 784,000
7.30 641,000
The Project 347,000 (6:30pm)/524,000 (7pm)
The Drum 200,000

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 274,000
Today 264,000
News Breakfast 242,000

Late News
Nine News Late Edition 157,000
ABC Late News 113,000
The Latest 112,000
SBS World News Late 43,000

Seven

Seven has continued to dominate the back half of the year with another dominant win. The broadcaster produced both a robust primary share (25.5%) and network share (33.5%) to easily win Tuesday night.

Home and Away has continued its strong return following the Olympics with an audience of 690,000. The soap will finish off its week tomorrow night with three episodes back to back.

The Voice followed with 1,165,000 as it continues its amazing run on Seven. The episode saw Rita Ora proclaiming herself the “Pitch Queen” after four artists joined her team. The drama continued as Jess Mauboy used her block after a powerful performance by Seann Miley Moore.

The Voice was also able to continue winning the key demos of 18-49, and 25-54.

Australia: Now and Then got steamy as 472,000 watched as the show discussed which generation was the hottest. This follows the show launching last week with 516,000 viewers.

Nine

The Block had 591,000 viewers as The Fan teams struggled to deliver their first bathrooms, with all three failing to waterproof. Tanya and Vito are also struggling to even be able to complete the space in time for judging.

This was the lowest rating episode of The Block in 2021, and was down on last Tuesday’s 634,000 viewers.

The Hundred with Andy Lee followed with 347,000 as  Andy Lee was joined by

A repeat of Travel Guides then took 235,000 viewers to Argentina. 

10

On The Project, the show covered the terrible events in Afghanistan, talked about what restrictions might lift if vaccine rates hit 70-80% and spoke to Australian basketball star Patty Mills. The episode had 347,000 at 6:30pm and then an average of 524,000 from 7:00pm.

Last night’s episode of Survivor was billed as King Geroge vs Queen Hailey, although it was more like two people at the bottom of the tribe scratching and clawing for survival. Ultimately George survived albeit with a damaged brand and broken trust with the tribe. While the Fire Tribe was happy to see Hailey go, they were less happy to see her and Bayden return from Redemption Rock the next day with a chance to get back into the game. Ultimately Haily outlasted Bayden in an endurance challenge to win her way back into an unwelcoming fire tribe.

The episode had 682,000 viewers and was up on last week’s 664,000 viewers and was #1 for the 16-39 demographic.

ABC

Back to Nature had 372,000 as Aaron and Holly visited the High Country, the Snowy Mountains-Ngarigo country in New South Wales.

SBS

The top program on SBS last night was a repeat of Insight with 231,000 viewers.

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