• The Manly Sea Eagles beat the Parramatta Eels in NRL Thursday Footy
Total TV Ratings, March 9
7’s Home and Away saw 870,000 watch to see if Mackenzie could let her brother go and Mali step up for Dean. Up 27%.
Then lifting by 34% was 10’s Gogglebox Australia, where our beloved couch warmers critiqued Binge’s The Last of Us, 7’s We Interrupt this Broadcast and Netflix’s Break Point. 736,000 tuned in.
On Nine’s NRL Thursday Night Footy, 640,000 saw reigning champions Penrith Panthers take on the South Sydney Rabbitohs, where the Panthers won 16 to 10, lifting 12%.
Overnight TV Ratings, March 16
Primetime News
Seven News 773,000 (6:00pm) / 772,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 668,000 (6:00pm) / 673,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 483,000
10 News First 202,000 (5:00pm)/ 126,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 102,000 (6:30pm)/ 91,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 426,000
7.30 365,000
The Project 153,000 6:30pm / 212,000 7pm
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 213,000
Today 190,000
News Breakfast 138,000
Seven has won the night with a primary share of 25.0% and a network share of 34.7%. 7Two has won multichannels with a 3.8% share.
248,000 began their evening in Summer Bay with Seven’s Home and Away. Theo shattered Ava’s dreams and Justin went into protective overdrive, before 552,000 watched the opener of the AFL season. In a “thrilling” draw, both Richmond and Carlton scored 8.10 (58) in a memorable finish.
Nine’s A Current Affair investigated a 96-year-old who was forced to couch surf on her son’s couch and shared the story of Xavier, a 20-year-old who was fit, full of life, and running a half marathon when he suddenly and tragically passed away. 426,000 tuned in. Following this, 349,000 watched NRL Thursday Night Footy where the Manly Sea Eagles took on the Parramatta Eels. The Sea Eagles beat the Eeels in a “crazy” clash at 4 Pines Park.
On 10, The Project (153,000 6:30pm / 212,000 7pm) welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the desk. He responded to former PM’s Paul Keating’s criticisms and explained if it meant the threat of war with China is real. The panel also investigated Australia’s jobless rate which has fallen to 3.5%. The RBA has said it will examine these figures closely to determine whether it needs to lift interest rates again. Then, 395,000 tuned into our favourite couch critics on Gogglebox Australia. During the episode our hilarious armchair experts critiqued Binge’s Colin from Accounts, The Swap, Married at First Sight, The 100 with Andy Lee and Paramount+’ Yellowstone prequel, 1923.
365,000 watched ABC’s 7.30 explore what message Australia’s multi-billion-dollar submarine deal sent to the rest of the world, the mass protests in Israel against the Government and twelve years after Labor was swept from power in NSW, polls show they could be in with a chance at next week’s election. Then, on Grand Designs: The Streets, 194,000 saw Kevin McCloud meet architect John and office administrator Julia, who have had a run of bad luck for the last 30 years trying to build their own home.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Dinosaur with Stephen Fry with 103,000 tuning in to see host and acclaimed actor Stephen Fry be transported 155 million years back in time to the first Golden Age of the dinosaurs, the Jurassic. He explored the conifer forests and fern prairies that were their home, to encounter a monstrous plant-eating Diplodocus, and a deadly predator, the Allosaurus.