Wednesday Week 35 2019
• Best of the rest: The Bachelor, Micallef’s Mad As Hell & Utopia
• Seven News 1,034,000/967,000
• Nine News 870,000/915,000
• A Current Affair 771,000
• ABC News 655,000
• 7.30 551,000
• The Project 286,000/504,000
• 10 News First 364,000
• The Drum 177,000
• SBS World News 136,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 260,000
• Today 208,000
Seven
Home and Away was on 645,000 with Sydney delivering the biggest audience – 203,000.
The Celebrity Chase then did 572,000 after launching last week with 628,000. Contestants in the second episode included WSFM’s Jonesy, Lisa Curry and Ricki-Lee.
Two episodes of the British drama Cheat followed with audiences of 231,000 and 183,000.
Nine
After two nights over 800,000, A Current Affair dipped to 771,000. Leila McKinnon was hosting last night and the episode started with Nine US reporter Alexis Daish doing some great work tracking down a creepy Aussie conman who seems to have moved operations to Hollywood. Later in the episode Reid Butler was reporting on Uber and its competitors.
There was more tension on The Block between Jesse and foreman Keith, but the fourth week of the series ended on a relaxing note as some Blockheads had a beer and surveyed their work so far in main bathroom week. The episode audience was just over 800,000, but that was still enough to win the timeslot and rank #1 for the night non-news.
The premiere of US drama Grand Hotel featuring Aussie Lincoln Younes followed with 359,000. Eva Longoria is an executive producer and has a guest role in the series.
10
Long-time former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen was a guest on The Project after 7pm with 504,000 watching. His first Australian show is in Melbourne tonight.
The Bachelor then jumped dramatically week-on-week going from 654,000 to 744,000. That was enough to make the episode #1 under 50 for the night and help Channel 10 and Network 10 to rank #1 under 50 for the night.
My Life Is Murder then did 391,000 to win its timeslot and demos after 378,000 last week.
ABC
Hard Quiz was the first of four Aussie-produced programs screening back-to-back from some of Australia’s newest, biggest, smallest and most-successful production companies.
Hard Quiz (Thinkative Television) did 616,000 after Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ITV Studios) looked at Daily Telegraph front page puns during the episode with 686,000 which was enough for a top 10 midweek ranking. The series did 682,000 last week.
The second week of Utopia (Working Dog) was on 660,000 after launching with 717,000.
The third episode of Diary Of An Uber Drive (Revlover) was on 288,000 after 333,000 a week ago.
SBS
Tony Robinson’s Coast To Coast did 215,000 and this week outrated the final episode of Untold Australia on 124,000 after last week’s episode managed 229,000.
