Wednesday: Week 13 2019
• Jess let’s rip at final Married At First Sight dinner party
• Nine banks another big midweek winning crowd: 1.3m+
• Front Bar v Footy Show: Audience blows whistle, chooses winner
• Morning Glory: TV star threatens to take a dump on the set
• Seven News 879,000/841,000
• Nine News 902,000/877,000
• A Current Affair 766,000
• ABC News 694,000
• 7.30 594,000
• The Project 256,000/397,000
• 10 News First 386,000
• SBS World News 117,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 298,000
• Today 187,000
Seven
After two nights just under 650,000, Home And Away has done 621,000 for its third episode in week 13.
My Kitchen Rules dropped lower to 732,000 despite an elimination battle. Lyn and Sal’s third time in elimination was their last – but only just! Victor was furious after low scores from the guest teams meant he and G only just scraped through with a win (105 v 104), despite their menu being a clear favourite with the judges, including a 10/10 agedashi tofu from both Manu and Pete.
The Front Bar then screened in AFL markets with audiences clearly choosing it against the return of The Footy Show. Mick Molloy and his colleagues had a metro audience of 383,000, more than double Nine’s alternative. The Melbourne audiences are the main target, with The Front Bar winning 277,000 v 96,000.
Nine
A Current Affair had its first night under 800,000 with 732,000 watching the midweek episode.
Married At First Sight made some pretty big promises and then delivered on them. By the end of the withering dinner party episode the couples looked as if they were ready for the series to wrap. The much-maligned relationship experts had some lovely moments – particularly when Jess started brawling and firing questions. The episode did 1.374m after 1.463m on Wednesday last week.
After four nights this week, Nine leads Seven all people primary share 26.4% to 19.8%. That was the similar gap this time last week, but Seven managed to pull it back with good AFL crowds.
The revamped AFL Footy Show didn’t contribute much to Nine’s share with 163,000 metro and 96,000 in Melbourne. And that’s with a MAFS lead-in. The new format launched last week with 258,000 metro and 175,000 in Melbourne.
10
After a sobering report from gun control expert Rebecca Peters on watering down Australia’s gun laws, David O’Doherty was very funny to end the midweek episode of The Project. The show did 397,000 after 7pm.
Two episodes of Bondi Rescue were both then just over 300,000.
A Law & Order: SVU double then did 198,000 and 102,000.
ABC
Hard Quiz was down week-on-week from 694,000 to 657,000, yet it still ranked #1 entertainment program. It was good to see a winner with a special subject of Absolutely Fabulous.
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering then did 525,000 after its 2019 launch did 583,000. Angela Bishop was grilled by Tom Gleeson during Hard Chat.
The explosive viewing highlight of the night however was the final ever episode of Get Krack!n. There can be no coming back from the “F*** this shit up” final episode. In a very powerful few minutes of TV the regular hosts Kate and Kate left the set to be replaced by Indigenous actors Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell. The final lines delivered by Tapsell made for compelling TV and would have jolted anybody watching as she marched around smashing up the set. However it was Lui who nearly made a mark no one would ever forget when she threatened, and very nearly did, a dump on the set! (Gives the “dump button” a whole new purpose.) She then stormed out vowing to create turmoil at Sunrise. The show did 247,000 after 257,000 last week.
SBS
Part three of Australians In Colour was back over 300,000.
Earlier Gourmet Farmer did 124,000 and Great British Railway Journeys was on 158,000.
