TV Ratings March 10: MAFS dinner party powers Nine to Wednesday night win

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• Primetime game shows: Hard Quiz beats out The Cube

• Amazing Grace has over 400k in second episode

Primetime News
Seven News 889,000 (6 pm)/878,000 (6:30 pm)
Nine News is 864,000 (6 pm)/888,000 (6:30 pm)
ABC News 652,000
10 News First 330,000(5 pm)/198,000 (6pm)
SBS World News 127,000 (6:30 pm)/110,000 (7 pm)

Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 681,000
7:30 570,000
The Project 255,000 (6:30 pm)/407,000 (7 pm)
The Drum 174,000 

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 244,000
News Breakfast 205,000
Today 191,000

Late Night News
Nine News Late Edition 104,000
The Latest 102,000
SBS World News Late 68,000
ABC Late News 47,000

Nine

Nine won the night thanks to a 24.7% primary share and a 33.3% network share. The top rating show was the night with Married at First Sight which had 969,000 tune in for this weeks dinner party.

Married at First Sight was the #1 show in all key demos, as the dinner party provided a healthy serving of drama with a classic MAFS drink throwing incident. 

MAFS was followed by Amazing Grace, with Nine’s new drama having 420,000 viewers tune in for its second episode. This was down on the show’s launch episode last week which had 504,000.

Seven

Last night Seven aired a double of Border Security: Australia’s Front Line (311,000 & 300,000) and The Pembrokeshire Murders (301,000 & 220,000).

Home and Away was the top-rating show for the broadcaster last night with 516,000.

10 

On 10, The Cube had 404,000 which was up on last weeks 351,000 as the grandmother and grandson combo of Connie and Hayden returned. The show also had brother and sister duo, James and Renae.

On The Project, 255,000 and 407,000 tuned in as the show covered the royal families response to Meghan and Harry‘s interview, plus Andy Lee joined the show ahead of The Cube at 7:30 pm.

ABC

Hard Quiz won the battle of the game shows last night with 629,000 viewers. On The Weekly with Charlie Pickering the show covered the racism revelations inside the Royal Family and was also joined by Zoë Coombs Marr, with 510,000 viewers.

This was followed by the comedy Aftertaste with 274,000, which was down on last weeks 258,000.

SBS

On SBS the top-rating program was Australia in colour with 224,000.

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