Last week’s headline was ‘Seven’s Olympic medal, MAFS keeps Nine competitive, Survivor drives 10’. We didn’t really need to change it for this week’s TV ratings.
The second week of the Beijing 2022 was key to Seven’s win with key support from its news bulletins on every night of the week.
In terms of spectacular performance again an Olympic Games look no further than Married at First Sight. The format made for Nine by Endemol Shine Australia was the clear #1 with several recent episodes lose to 2m viewers in terms of Total TV audience.
Most MAFS episodes are showing an uplift on overnight audience of between 60% to 80% once BVOD and time-shifted viewing figures are included.
Over Week 8, Married at First Sight dominated its timeslot each night it aired. All four episodes take out the top four highest rating programs with Nine’s key demos of 25-54s, 16-39s and Grocery Shopper + Child.
Monday-Friday News primetime
Seven 913,000/900,000
Nine 776,000/760,000
ABC 592,000
10 277,000
Monday-Friday Breakfast
Sunrise (Seven) 247,000
Today (Nine) 203,000
TV ratings outstanding newcomer: Vera (ABC, 586,000)
Series 11 hardly makes Vera a newcomer! But it was new this month and with only four episodes each year its arrival is a cause for celebration amongst the fans. Series 11 is in fact the longest ever with six episodes with Week 8’s third episode the halfway mark. Episode two of this series saw the Total TV audience on 1.16m with the overnight audience up 33%.
Seven: Network 33.3%, Primary 24.0%, 7mate 4.1%
Seven News Sunday was the only program to crack 1m in overnights. The other Seven 6pm bulletins across the week were clear winners.
Four separate sessions of Beijing 2022 managed to pull a metro overnight audience over 500,000.
The next best was Australia’s #1 and soon to be only commercial TV returning drama, Home and Away, with 493,000, just 5,000 short of last week’s average audience.
Nine: Network 28.4%, Primary 20.9%, Gem 2.5%
Married at First Sight was again the hottest non-new property of the week with all four episodes cleaning up in all people and in the key demos Nine targets. Two episodes were in the 900,000s and the other two were close to 830,000.
A Current Affair was down 9,000 week-on-week with 594,000.
60 Minutes featured the Prime Minister at home with Karl Stefanovic with an audience of 567,000, well down on the 745,000 watching the week prior.
10: Network 14.3%, Primary 8.7%, 10 Peach/10 Bold 2.5%
Australian Survivor was the key program again for the network where the parent company is now called Paramount. One episode of Survivor made it to 500,000 with the other two below. The smallest audience watching the format was 438,000 on Tuesday.
The Project had a tough week with the 7pm weekday edition averaging 325,000 after 362,000 the week prior.
The next best primetime offering was Ambulance Australia on 276,000.
ABC: Network 16.3%, Primary 12.3%, Kids/TV Plus & ABC News 1.8%
ABC News topped the rankings for the broadcaster with 586,000.
Vera was close behind with 586,000, up from 560,000 from the previous week. The audience bump was enough to push the program into the top 20 t #15.
Last week’s star performer Muster Dogs was on 575,000, up from 549,000.
Other programs over half a million were Hard Quiz (546,000) and Death in Paradise (546,000).
SBS: Network 7.7%, Primary 4.2%, Viceland 1.3%
The most-watched program this week was a UK episode of Who Do You Think You Are? with 191,000 tuned in.
Next best was the return of Insight on 161,000.
See also: TV ratings Who won Week 7, 2022