Total TV Ratings October 10
Seven
It was a busy night on SAS Australia with the 13 remaining celebrities facing a day of extreme training that claimed two voluntary withdrawals — Cassie Sainsbury and Lindy Klim — and one medical withdrawal — Boyd Cordner. The Total TV audience was 889,000.
Nine
On The Block, a group hangout was without Kristy and Brett who were well and truly on the outs after all the drama in previous weeks with 1,263,000 watching the episode.
10
The dollars were flying on Shark Tank as reusable film camera business 35MM CO received $300,000 for 17.5% equity and patented interconnecting earphone business, Nevabuds received $28,000 for a 49% stake in the business. The Total TV audience was 364,000.
Overnight TV Ratings October 17
Primetime News
Seven News 823,000 (6.00 pm)/805,000 (6.30pm)
Nine News 694,000 (6.00 pm)/700,000 (6.30pm)
ABC News 522,000
10 News First 189,000 (5:00 pm)/133,000 (6:00 pm)
SBS World News 141,000 (6:30 pm)/113,000 (7:00 pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 644,000
The Project 159,000 (6:30pm)/ 249,000 (7pm)
The Drum 122,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 209,000
Today 193,000
ABC Breakfast 152,000
Share summary
Nine ranked #1 for the third consecutive night in Week 42 with a primary share of 21.7% and a network share of 30.6%.
Seven was in second place with 18.7% and 28.5%. 7TWO had there biggest multichannel share with 4.2%.
10 had shares of 9.9% and 16.0%.
Nine
A Current Affair looked at a schoolgirl’s serious accident at Bali bar among other stories last night. The episode was on 644,000 after starting the week on 642,000 on Monday.
Debate about the size of the army working on landscaping on house one on The Block dominated most of the Tuesday episode. There was a break from that tension mid-episode with a game of Block Bucks Swap. The audience was 671,000 after 655,000 on Tuesday last week.
Under Investigation followed with Liz Hayes and a panel of experts looked at formerly top-secret diplomatic documents to expose what really happened to the Balibo Five, a team of Australian journalists executed in East Timor in October 1975. The episode delivered an audience of 262,000.
Seven
Home and Away again centred around Lyrik with screentime for Alf and Justin too. The episode pulled in 454,000 after 476,000 on Monday.
SAS Australia has already reached the halfway mark of the series. Nine recruits remained as Day 5 started at 5.45am as the temp hovered at 3 degrees in Jordan. Three-time world boxing champ Anthony Mundine shared some of his boxing skills at the start of the episode. Matthew Mitcham was then taken into interrogation. The stakes quickly climbed when the recruits jumped off a clip top edge. Viewers went to one ad break not sure if Abbie Holmes had survived the plunge. (Spoiler – she did.) Toward the end of the episode, and after doing push-ups in the desert sun while wearing a heavy backpack, Number 5 said “I’m done”. It was the end for Anthony Mundine. Watching the champ depart was an audience of 401,000 after 458,000 on Tuesday last week.
Late-night entertainment was another episode of Inside HMP Whitemoor: Evil Behind Bars, about the UK prison dubbed Britain’s Alcatraz, with 123,000 watching.
10
The Project started on 159,000 and climbed to 249,000 after 7pm.
The Shark Tank unearthed more business investment opportunities including sunscreen for children and suit hire rental business.
The Cheap Seats (pictured above) followed with guests including Rhys Nicholson and Max Rushden. The audience of 335,000 was up from last week’s 291,000.
ABC
Take 5 with Zane Rowe had an audience of 291,000 watching her interview Natalie Imbruglia.
The Old People’s Home for Teenagers was on 303,000 for episode 3 after 304,000 a week ago.
The third episode of Australia After War then did 138,000.
SBS
The current affairs show The Point featured some passionate points of view from Indigenous Australia after the defeat of the weekend referendum on The Voice. It was a hard sell to the audience though with 37,000 watching.
Insight followed on 72,000 and then Dateline with 69,000.