• Hard Quiz returns with a bumper audience
• Despite social media indifference, viewers tune in to Wil Anderson’s new show
Primetime News
Seven News 1,213,000/1,137,000
Nine News 1,075,000/1,005,000
ABC News 769,000
10 News First 434,000 (5:00pm)/ 254,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 198,000 (6:30pm) 156,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
7.30 649,000
The Project 316,000 (6:30pm)/524,000 (7pm)
The Drum 196,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 274,000
Today 251,000
News Breakfast 230,000
Late News
Nine News Late Edition 166,000
The Latest 160,000
ABC Late News 70,000
SBS World News Late 55,000
Seven
Home and Away was the top non-news program last night with a healthy audience of 690,000.
Seven aired its new factual TV series Nurses for the first time last night, bringing in an audience of 500,000. The show took viewers to three major city hospitals.
The episode saw a young woman undergo complicated heart surgery, and an ICU patient threaten violence against the medical staff.
The medical theme of the night continued as RFDS followed with its second episode which brought in 513,000 viewers. This was down on last weeks launch which had 604,000.
Nine
Nine has broken its recent drought by securing both the top primary (20.3%) and network (28.0%) share last night.
The Block continues to buck the trend and air a Wednesday night episode, with 678,000 tuning in last night. This was up on last Wednesday’s 633,000.
The episode saw Tanya and Vito under the pump to finish their bathroom in time, with just two days to go until tools down. Mitch, Mark and Ronnie all stepped in to help Vito pull through the stressful situation.
Kirsty and Jesse also broke an unlikely Block record after having the most inspections needed to get a bathroom ready for tiling.
Seven wasn’t the only network to air a factual medical program last night, with Nine continuing to air its third season of Paramedics. The episode brought in 470,000 viewers as Nat and Leonard went to a hotel pool, after a romantic escape ended in disaster for a young mum. Eamon and Mike also treated a traumatised child attacked by a dog.
Non-AFL markets were also once again treated to an early airing of Australian Crime Stories (159,000) with the episode focusing on the death of Renae Marsden.
The AFL centric cities instead had Footy Classified with 131,000 tuning in to see Ross Lyon drop some bombs about Collingwood and Cartlon.
10
The Project had 316,000 tune in for its first half at 6:30pm before finishing strong with an average of 524,000 from 7:30pm. The episode covered the rising Covid cases in New South Wales, discussed the Taliban, and talked to Nicole Kidman.
The Bachelor aired another double episode last night with an average of 471,000. The episodes featured Jimmy’s mum giving him advice that ended up with Stephanie leaving the show and Tahnee went home after a tense standoff with Jay over a rumour that she preferred to be the runner-up.
ABC
7:30 had 649,000 viewers as Leigh Sales clashed with former Prime Minister John Howard over Afghanistan.
Hard Quiz returned with a new episode, taking back its time slot from the ailing Win the Week. The powerhouse of a quiz show produced a strong 679,000 in its return.
It was hard finding love on social media last night for the first episode of the ABC’s new series Question Everything. It is the latest entrant in a range of shows featuring panels of comedians which screen across Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. While it might not have received love online, it still brought in a strong 570,000 viewers in the 8:30pm timeslot.
The show took the timeslot of the long-running Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell which had 532,000 for its season finale last week.
Rosehaven continued its final season with an audience of 419,000 last night.
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS last night was What Does Australia Really Think About with 179,000 viewers.
