• Back Roads proves popular on the ABC
Total TV Ratings, July 17
988,000 sat down for Seven’s Home and Away where Felicity and Tane were running out of time and Justin was back in action, up 21%.
980,000 tuned in 10’s premiere of Hunted Australia as 10 fearless teams embarked on a heart-stopping challenge, striving to avoid capture for 21 days armed with only $300 and an overnight bag, up 36%.
975,000 watched Seven’s Dancing with the Stars: Semi-Finals, Round Two. Virginia Gay stole the show with a perfect-scoring Foxtrot and Pia Miranda, Sally Pearson and Laura Byrne took their last spin, up 17%.
931,000 viewed Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Emma Holland, Pete Helliar and Bron Lewis, up 37%.
469,000 saw Nine’s Rush where Team Navy, Team Gold and Team Scarlet were dropped into the chaos that is St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, up 30%.
Overnight TV Ratings, July 24
Primetime News
Seven News 1,036,000 (6:00pm) / 1,015,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 796,000 (6:00pm) / 784,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 586,000
10 News First 235,000 (5:00pm)/ 199,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 142,000 (6:30pm)/ 105,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 662,000
7.30 502,000
The Project 201,000 6:30pm / 313,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 231,000
Today 196,000
News Breakfast 151,000
Seven won Monday night with a primary share of 28.1% and a network share of 35.3%. 7Two has won multi channels with a 2.9% share.
556,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away. Theo felt betrayed by Kirby, Justin got bad news about the imminent album launch and Marilyn misread Irene’s feelings. John Farnham: Finding the Voice followed with 866,000 watching the untold story of Australian music icon, John Farnham. Following him through incredible highs and lows, the biopic detailed his record-breaking success as ‘Australia’s Voice’.
Nine’s A Current Affair (662,000) investigated a luxury store accused of selling fake designer bags and looked at the mining war between millionaires Gina Rinehart and Angela Bennett. Then, 239,000 tuned in for Rush. The teams had the most intense cultural experience of the series when they were dropped into the world of Kenya’s Maasai tribe. The World Aquatics Championships Day 2 followed with 204,000 watching on.
On 10, The Project’s (201,000 6:30pm / 313,000 7pm) looked at Australia’s casual workers who will be given the right to a permanent position if they are continually working set shifts under new reforms put forward by the Federal Government and the panel spoke to English sports commentator Max Rushden who revealed why winning the Ashes is important. Hunted Australia followed as gamer duo Ben and Callum were caught by the ground Hunters. 451,000 watched on. 500,000 then sat down for Have You Been Paying Attention? Host Tom Gleisner was joined by Sam Pang, Ed Kavalee, Kitty Flanagan, Aaron Chen and Amanda Keller as well as guest quizmaster, hilarious US comedian Fortune Feimster.
502,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explore online scammers who are posing as popular psychics and looked at a former US pilot accused of training China’s military, who has spoken out for the first time. 455,000 then watched Back Roads where Heather visited the sleepy Victorian mountainside town of Walhalla, on the historic Goldfields Railway. 385,000 watched Four Corners and 386,000 tuned into Media Watch.
The highest-rating non-news show on SBS was 24 Hours in Emergency where staff at Queen’s Medical Centre were dealing with the fallout following a spate of needle-spiking attacks in nightclubs across the UK. 88,000 tuned in.
