Nine has kept its TV ratings winning streak intact as the 7.30 timeslot transitioned from Married at First Sight to a new season of Lego Masters. But the gap between Nine and Seven has shrunk – Nine was just 1.5 ahead of Seven’s primary share and the network gap has shrunk to 0.4.
Nine: Primary 21.2% (Network 28.9%)
The Married at First Sight final has become the most-watched program of the year in TV ratings with an audience of 1.398m.
Nine then handed over the 7.30pm slot to Hamish Blake with 834,000 watching the launch episode of Lego Masters on Monday. The numbers dipped on Tuesday and Wednesday though to 782,000 and 766,000.
A Current Affair averaged 676,000 with 60 Minutes on 647,000.
Seven: 19.7% (28.5%)
Seven News continued to dominate the 6pm slot Monday to Friday as well as Saturday and Sunday.
The three episodes of Dancing with the Stars peaked with 644,000 on Monday and then did 621,000 on Sunday and 577,000 on Tuesday.
The weekly average for Home and Away was 561,000.
No Thursday AFL last week and the Friday clash had an audience of 531,000.
10: 11.5% (18.6%)
The arrival of MasterChef Australia has lifted the primary channel’s numbers with the Monday launch episode on 670,000. The audience slipped below 600,000 for the rest of the week – Tuesday 582,000, Wednesday 549,000 and Thursday 592,000.
The final episode of the first of two seasons of Gogglebox this year was on 605,000.
The Project 7pm was on 423,000.
ABC: 11.7% (16.2%)
The new season launch of Spicks and Specks attracted the biggest audience of the week – 665,000.
Hard Quiz was close behind on 652,000.
The final episode of the short season of Fisk was on 540,000. The series was such a hit that there is an expectation a second series will be commissioned.
The Weekly was also over half a million on 530,000 while Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds just missed the mark on 499,000.
SBS: 4.8% (7.7%)
The best crowd gathered for the first episode of 1000 Years of History with 246,000 watching.
Nothing else made it over 200, but both Titanic: Dead Reckoning and The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys got close on 194,000.
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