TV Ratings September 16, 2021: Gogglebox cruises to top entertainment program

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• Home and Away and Front Bar push Seven to #1

Total TV Ratings for September 9, 2021

In the total TV ratings Home and Away was the top entertainment program with an average of 1.134m for its first two episodes and also 1.075m for its third episode that aired that night. The other big mover on Seven was the Front Bar (532,000) which was up 10%

On 10, Gogglebox Australia was up 23% to 1.029m while the second part of Mirror Mirror with Todd Sampson had 948,000 after increasing 16%.

On Nine, A Current Affair was over 1m while RBT ended up on 737,000.

On the ABC, 9/11: Life Under Attack was up 28% to 425,000.

September 16 Overnight TV Ratings

• Best of the Rest: RBT, Making it, ACA

Primetime News

Seven News 1,107,000/1,052,000
Nine News 961,000/905,000
ABC News 729,000
10 News First 327,000 (5:00pm)/ 212,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 167,000 (6:30pm) 139,000 (7:00pm)

Daily current affairs

A Current Affair 686,000
7.30 589,000
The Project 255,000 (6:30pm)/440,000 (7pm)
The Drum 186,000

Breakfast TV

Sunrise 268,000
Today 257,000
News Breakfast 209,000

Late News

The Latest 366,000
Nine News Late 106,000
ABC Late News 71,000
SBS World News Late 45,000

Seven 

Seven was the top primary channel last night with 20.6% and also the top network with 29.7%.

Thursday night meant another triple episode of Home and Away, the show was the top non-news program on seven last night with an average of 585,000 for the first two episodes while the third episode had an average of 555,000.

No AFL this week, but The Front Bar was still kicking goals with 382,000 viewers. The episode was the first preview of the AFL Grand Final and also featured Sam Pang’s Nova co-host, Jonathan Brown.

The rom-com 27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden had 135,000 viewers tuning in.

Nine

A Current Affair had 686,000 as the show covered the heated debate over the AUKUS alliance.

With Thursday night NRL wrapped for the year, Nine went to the tried and true factual program RBT (519,000) in the 7:30pm slot.

Ghislaine Maxwell: Exposed which explored Ghislaine Maxwell as Jeffrey Epstein‘s alleged partner in crime. The show had 290,000 viewers.

10

The Project had 255,000 (6:30pm) and 440,000 (7:00pm) as the show discussed Simone Biles emotional testimony over the failure to act on sexual abuse in gymnastics and also spoke to Jack River.

Making it Australia had 401,000 for its episode which is down on its Wednesday night launch of 474,000.

In the episode, the twelve remaining Makers combined forces for their first Together Craft, where three teams of four created their own working billy cart. 

Between an aquarium on wheels and a take-no-prisoners Rocket Pirate Ship, it’s Russell, Dan, Rehana and Denise’s Bee-lycart that got them the winning patch.

With seven hours on the clock, the Master Craft elimination saw Makers individually construct and design a cubby house.

In tribute to his twin boys, Rizaldy created a jaw-dropping Flintstones-esque cubby made from old tyres, complete with its own slide. Yabba-Dabba-Do! The attention to detail and adherence to his vision impressed judges Benja and Deb.

On the other end of the spectrum, Russell was eliminated from the competition.

Gogglebox Australia was then the top non-news program of the night with 610,000 viewers. The show was also #1 in all key demos.

ABC

Foreign Correspondent had 381,000 viewers as it covered Europe’s deadliest migrant crossing and the beaches of Barcelona in Spain

Q+A was live from Melbourne and was hosted by Virginia Trioli. The episode focused on young people in Australia and had 267,000 viewers.

SBS

The top program on SBS was walking Britain’s Lost Railways with 170,000 viewers.

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