Total TV Ratings for September 6, 2021
Seven and Nine’s news programming has stayed in the top two spots despite some strong growth from the primetime programs.
The Block remained the top entertainment program of the night and brought its overall audience up to 1.433m, which was an increase of 22%. The episode saw the continuation of the cheating saga when Kirsty performed a song about cheating at her and Jesse‘s Winners Are Grinners dinner.
Home and Away had over a million viewers after seeing its audience bumped up by 18%.
Australian Survivor had 1.147m, an increase of 21% for its episode that saw the ultimate power couple finally crumble as George and Cara both voted for each other.
Have You Been Paying Attention? also had a nice bump for 10, now up to 1.136m for its episode that featured Dilruk Jayasinha, Celia Pacquola and Denise Scott.
September 13 Overnight TV Ratings
• Brynne Edelsten goes home on SAS while Vinnie Jones is unmasked on Masked Singer
Primetime News
Seven News 1,195,000/1,173,000
Nine News 1,041,000/1,007,000
ABC News 774,000
10 News First 372,000 (5:00pm)/ 249,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 170,000 (6:30pm) 154,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 800,000
7.30 636,000
The Project 307,000 (6:30pm)/519,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 199,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 268,000
Today 252,000
News Breakfast 107,000
Late News
The Latest 170,000
Nine News 105,000
ABC Late News 65,000
SBS World News Late 56,000
Seven
Seven won last night with the top primary (21.0%) and network (27.3%) share thanks to strong performances from Seven News, Home and Away, and the premier of SAS Australia.
Home and Away kicked off its week with an audience of 659,000. This comes after the show had an average of 599,000 for last week.
SAS Australia then returned for 2021 with 647,000 viewers, down from last year’s launch audience of 834,000. The show didn’t take it easy on the star recruits who were forced to endure a tear-gassing exercise before even entering the compound.
Surprised by the biggest recruit reacting so strongly to the tear gas, the DS brought #16 Sam Burgess, into the Mirror Room for questioning, where he proceeded to come clean about the personal events which brought him there.
The challenges continued with a test of endurance – a helicopter ladder crossing high above a lake – which proved too challenging for some.
One of the few to successfully complete the task, recruit #17 Alicia Molik, received a brutal dressing down from Middleton after a blatant display of showboating. As punishment, all recruits faced their first beasting back on the Parade Square.
Collapsing under the pressure, #3 Brynne Edelsten became the first recruit to VW (voluntarily withdraw) from the course.
Australian Gangster then had 359,000 viewers.
Nine
The Block had 854,000 viewers as the fallout from the cheating scandal comes back to bite not just the teams involved, but everyone on the show, with news that the wardrobes might not be ready after the original production schedule was scrapped.
Despite the stiff competition of two season launches from SAS Australia and The Masked Singer, The Block was the top non-news program last night and #1 in all key demos.
Under Investigation then followed as the show covered the murder of 23-year-old Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Barnard in 1986 which divided the close but secretive community of Victoria’s Phillip Island. The episode had 359,000 viewers.
Footy Classified and 100% footy then both had 176,000 and 55,000.
10
The Project had 307,000 (6:00pm) and 519,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered how Victoria’s Covid spike has put the construction industry on notice, and also took a deep dive into the early life and career of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
The Masked Singer then followed with its season three premiere which brought in 642,000 viewers. The first episode unveiled that Vinnie Jones was performing under the Volcano mask with 760,000 tuning in for the reveal. In 2020 the launch episode saw 735,000 tune in for the show with 828,000 watching the reveal.
Jones’s take on The Proclaimers 80’s hit I’m Gonna Be didn’t quite measure up to the magma-tude of Vampire’s rendition of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise.
Guessing panel Dannii Minogue, Dave Hughes, Jackie O and Urzila Carlson were unable to detect Jones as the Volcano and instead nominated Sacha Baron Cohen, Christian Bale, Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mundine as it’s possible identity.
Have You Been Paying Attention? then followed with 639,000 as the episode featured Emma Holland’s debut on the show. The episode also featured Kitty Flanagan and Pete Helliar.
10 continued to perform well in the key demos on Monday nights with both The Masked Singer and HYBPA? in the top five for all segments.
ABC
Australian Story had 608,000 as it covered Dr Jamal Rifi who has given up his retirement dreams to fight Covid from his front yard in the middle of the nation’s Delta outbreak.
Four Corners followed with an examination of the world of Jehovah’s Witnesses with former members of the group revealing the secret practices used to instil fear and maintain discipline among followers. The episode had 621,000 viewers.
Media Watch then had 496,000 viewers.
SBS
The top rating show on SBS last night was a repeat of 10 Mistakes That Sunk the Titanic with 190,000 viewers.
