Seven’s combo of Tokyo 2020 and the climax of the AFL season that has kept it ranked #1 in primary and network share TV ratings for the past eight weeks has come to an end.
Seven narrowly won the primary share rankings this week, but it lost the bragging rights to a #1 network ranking.
Seven overnights Week 38
21.4% primary share, 29.1% network share
Seven News was tipped out of top spot after leading the weekly rankings for five consecutive weeks. The biggest program for the week was The Voice Grand Final with split audiences of 1.383/1.292m.
Seven News Sunday and Seven News 6pm M-F both averaged just over 1.1m.
Away from the News, Seven’s next best was three episodes from a new season of SAS Australia. All episodes were over 600,000 with 654,000 on Wednesday.
Home and Away averaged 615,000 for the week.
Total TV Week 36
Seven continued to perform well in the VOZ Total TV ratings. It had five of the most-watched programs of the week with The Voice Sunday and Seven News Sunday both pushing above 2m.
Seven also had the two biggest commercial TV BVOD audiences of the week with close to 240,000 watching the Sunday and Monday episodes of The Voice.
Nine overnights Week 38
20.7% primary share, 29.3% network share
Nine News Sunday was the most-watched Sunday news bulletin with 1.225m as it followed an NRL Final.
The best non-news numbers belonged to The Block Sunday with 952,000. The other three episodes screened were all over 800,000.
A Current Affair averaged 746,000 after 770,000 the week prior.
The Sunday afternoon NRL Elimination Final did 523,000 while the Semi-Finals later in the week had audiences of 690,000 and 608,000.
Total TV Week 36
Nine’s best was the Wednesday episode of The Block which reported a Total TV ratings audience of 1,692,000 which includes a BVOD audience of 215,000. All episodes of The Block this week were better than 1.4m.
10 Overnights Week 38
11.8% primary share, 18.3% network share
The channel’s best TV ratings were the end of one reality franchise and the start of another.
The biggest audience came for Australian Survivor Grand Finale with 935,000/785,000 watching the conclusion of the series.
The following night The Masked Singer Australia kicked off with 760,000/642,000.
Also over 600,000 for the channel were a second Masked Singer episode (676,000/592,000), Have You Been Paying Attention? (641,000) and Gogglebox (610,000).
Total TV Week 36
The channel’s sole entry in the Total TV top 20 was the Tuesday episode of Survivor on 1,199,000 which includes 139,000 on BVOD. The two other episodes of Survivor were also over 1.1m.
Have You Been Paying Attention? pushed over 1m too and the grand finale episode of The Bachelor Australia lifted to 959,000 with 120,000 watching by BVOD.
ABC Overnights Week 38
11.2% primary share, 15.4% network share
ABC News weekdays had a stronger week, up from 689,000 to 718,000.
Four Corners and Australian Story were both just over 600,000 while 7.30 and Hard Quiz were oh-so-close each on 597,000.
Total TV Week 36
Bluey had a massive increase for an episode with a staggering crowd of 1,169,000 watching on BVOD which lifted the Total TV audience to 1,712,000.
Other shows over 1m for the week included ABC News on Sunday and weekdays, Australian Story and Four Corners.
SBS Overnights Week 38
4.6% primary share, 7.9% network share
The launch episode of ITV Studios’ Inside Central Station on Sunday drew the best TV ratings crowd with 243,000.
Also over 200,000 were repeat episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? and Tony Robinson’s World By Rail.
Total TV Week 36
What Does Australia Really Think About again topped the rankings with 414,000 including 30,000 watching on BVOD.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine again had a giant BVOD audience with 135,000, or 39% of its audience.
See also: TV ratings Week 37 2021: AFL drives Seven higher, but Nine close behind