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Primetime News
Seven News 1,339,000
Nine News 1,122,000
ABC News 653,000
10 News First 361,000 (5:00pm)/ 262,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 165,000 (6:30pm) 149,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 488,000
The Project 342,000 (6:30 pm)/472,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 260,000
Today 265,000
News Breakfast 186,000
Late News
Nine News 356,000
Seven
Seven has once again dominated Sunday night with a primary share of 26.7% and a network share of 33.7%.
On The Voice‘s penultimate episode 1.088m tuned in as the top four artists were confirmed to be Bella Taylor Smith from Team Guy, Arlo Sim from Team Keith, Mick Harrington from Team Jess and G-Nat!on from Team Rita. With the finale next Sunday, The Voice is only one episode away from being above 1 million for every episode this year.
Homicide: With Ron Iddles had 567,000 as the show covered the disappearance of Mandy Ahmadi.
The closing ceremony of the Paralympics had 193,000 viewers.
Nine
In the final regular-season game of the NRL season, the last-placed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs gave the Wests Tigers a worst-case scenario finish to their season to the tune of a 38-0 thumping. The dead rubber had 242,000 viewers, with 151,000 tuning in from Sydney.
The third game of the Bledisloe Cup had 339,000 viewers on Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday episode of The Block was going to be the climax of the cheating scandal that has dominated the program for the past few episodes. There was a lot of ground to cover on the Sunday episode, wrapping up the scandal and then revealing all the basement fit-outs, the judge’s scorecards and then the reveal of the basement winner. So much to cram in that viewers are going to have to keep watching next week to find out the punishment host Scott Cam will be dishing out to the cheaters.
While the basement fit-outs were the sideshow last week, they were the focus of the Sunday episode. Four of the five teams chose to create a home theatre in their basement. The odd ones out were Mitch and Mark who decided on a steam room. After the first two reveals it was looking like the All-Stars, Mitch and Mark and also Ronnie and Georgia, were heading for another victory. However, the other team not involved in the cheating scandal, Kirsty and Jesse, showed off their theatre and it blew the judges away, attracting 29 out of 30, and narrowly beating the All-Star teams each on 28.5.
Neale Whittaker was loving three of the five basements, noting several times, “We have never seen anything like this on The Block.”
Judge Shaynna Blaze was savage in her comments about Josh and Luke: “It’s absolute crap.”
Next week, the cheating scandal will play out as the teams get stuck into Master Ensuite Bathroom Week.
Basement scores
Kirsty and Jesse 29.0
Ronnie and Georgia 28.5
Mitch and Mark 28.5
Tanya and Vito 25.2
Josh and Luke 19.0
The Sunday audience for The Block continues to be a magnet for viewers with 1.032m watching against the penultimate Sunday of The Voice. This was yet again another season-high as the show has soared in the ratings since the cheating scandal kicked off. The Block was also #1 in all key demos.
60 Minutes then had 581,000 viewers as Liam Bartlett reported on the JobKeeper scheme and how $13 billion of taxpayers’ money was given to businesses that didn’t need it.
10
The Project had 342,000 (6:30pm) and 472,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the vaccine blitz in New South Wales and the push on Fathers Day to get equal leave for all parents.
On Survivor, the Fire Tribe is now down to four as Wai was blindsided by George when he sniffed that Flick had an idol, and preemptively moved against Wai to protect himself. The episode had 689,000 viewers, this was up on last week’s 676,000.
ABC
The Newsreader episode four featured reporter Dale working on location in the Melbourne CBD, not far from where the bomb went off outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters. The episode had 444,000 viewers
Earlier in the night, David Attenborough’s Global Adventure had 352,000 viewers.
SBS
The top rating program on SBS last night was The Real Lawrence of Arabia with 171,000.
