TV Ratings August 30, 2021: The Block has its best ratings of the year thanks to cheating scandal

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• Nine #1 primary but Paralympics powers Seven to network win

• Survivor has strong ratings as fire tribe is down to five

Primetime News
Seven News 1,157,000/1,137,000
Nine News 1,072,000/1,037,000
ABC News 702,000
10 News First 373,000 (5:00pm)/ 280,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 170,000 (6:30pm)/ 124,000 (7:00pm)

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 773,000
7.30 482,000
The Project 322,000 (6:30pm)/535,000 (7pm)
The Drum 189,000

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 260,000
Today 223,000
News Breakfast 255,000

Late News
The Latest 157,000
Nine News Late Edition 128,000
ABC Late News 115,000
SBS World News Late 38,000

Seven

While Seven was not the #1 primary share for the first time this week it was still the top network (29.5%) thanks to 7mate (7.0%) which aired the Paralympics. 

7News provided a strong platform for the broadcasters primetime lineup with 1.157m (6pm) and 1.137m (6:30pm) tuning in. This was then followed by a strong performance from Home and Away (662,000).

With The Voice not airing a Tuesday night episode this week, Seven instead kept with the music theme and aired ABBA Forever (526,000) and The Greatest Showman (298,000).

The top rating segment for the Paralympics yesterday was the night session with 258,000 viewers.

Nine

On Nine, The Block’s cheating scandal continued last night as Tanya and Vito were revealed to be at the centre of the photo of the production team whiteboard.

After an investigation, Tanya confessed that she got it off an anonymous text from a tradie, but hidden camera footage at the end of the episode revealed that wasn’t the case as the saga continues. The episode brought in 911,000 viewers which was the highest rating episode of the year, and was #1 in all key demos.
It has been a good week for the show with the top three episodes of the year coming in the last three days.

The Hundred with Andy Lee had 413,000 viewers which was up on last week’s 390,000. The episode featured a special appearance from Australian cricketer Pat Cummins.

This was followed by a repeat of Travel Guides that took 208,000 viewers to South Australia.

10

The Project had 322,000 (6:30pm) and 535,000 (7:00pm) as the show discussed the controversy of footballers families being given exemptions to enter Queensland, and spoke to Awkwafina

Australian Survivor saw one of its biggest players go home last night in Dani after she was unable to convince Hailey and Wai to join her minority alliance despite taking Hailey on a luxurious overnight trip. This leaves only five members of the Fire Tribe left. 

The episode had 707,000 viewers and was up on last week’s 689,000.

The Cheap Seats then followed with 348,000 viewers.

ABC

Back to Nature had 266,000 viewers as the show took viewers to Wurundjeri country near Melbourne.

SBS

The top rating show on SBS was a repeat of Who Do You Think You Are? featuring Kat Stewart. The episode had 170,000.

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