Total TV ratings Friday October 22
The ABC Friday drama Annika continued to be the star performer in the Total TV ratings data which includes BVOD viewing.
Annika jumped 32% from its overnight audience to give the Scottish crime drama an audience of 912,000. The BVOD audience was 111,000.
The biggest non-news commercial TV show last Friday belonged to Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens with 828,000 after an initial metro overnight audience of 462,000.
Overnight TV ratings Metro Friday October 29
Seven
Seven News averaged over 800,000 for across the hour.
Better Homes and Gardens was then on 422,000 after 462,000 a week ago.
Seven’s Friday movie was the Mel Gibson-directed Hacksaw Ridge on 203,000 after 169,000 were watching Interstellar a week prior.
Nine
Nine News slipped from just over 800,000 to 759,000 in its second half hour.
Friday’s A Current Affair was on 552,000 after 550,000 a week ago.
The second week of Taronga: Who’s Who in the Zoo did 362,000 after the series launched with 390,000.
The 2008 feel good family movie Marley and Me had an audience of 173,000.
The channel’s mid-afternoon UK game show Tipping Point had a bigger audience than the evening movie with 276,000 at 3pm.
10
The 5pm 10 News First attracted the channel’s biggest crowd with just over 300,000.
The Project 7pm dropped from 307,000 to 263,000 week-on-week.
The Living Room was replaced by The Graham Norton Show with 212,000.
The Have You Been Paying Attention? encore got an earlier slot too with 181,000.
ABC
ABC News was down again to 559,000 after a few weeks close to and above 600,000.
Gardening Australia had the biggest primetime non-news audience with 443,000, but that number too is down on the past few weeks.
Annika was over 429,000, the smallest audience yet watching the third episode.
SBS
Titanic’s Lost Evidence topped the channel’s rankings with 164,000. Also outrating SBS World News (on 126,000 at 6.30pm) was Legends of the Pharaohs on 143,000 at 7.30pm and a repeat of Hindenburg: The New Evidence on 136,000 at 10pm.
Friday TV ratings metro shares primary and network
ABC 13.0% (17.9%)
Seven 19.4% (26.9%)
Nine 17.4% (28.7%)
10 8.3% (15.9%)
SBS 6.4% (10.7%)
See also: Weekend TV ratings Friday October 22, 2021
Friday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | SEVEN NEWS | Channel 7 | 849,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 | Channel 7 | 839,000 |
| 3 | NINE NEWS | Channel 9 | 801,000 |
| 4 | NINE NEWS 6:30 | Channel 9 | 759,000 |
| 5 | ABC NEWS | ABC TV | 559,000 |
| 6 | A CURRENT AFFAIR | Channel 9 | 552,000 |
| 7 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA | Channel 7 | 472,000 |
| 8 | GARDENING AUSTRALIA | ABC TV | 443,000 |
| 9 | ANNIKA | ABC TV | 429,000 |
| 10 | BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS | Channel 7 | 422,000 |
| 11 | HOT SEAT | Channel 9 | 378,000 |
| 12 | TARONGA: WHO’S WHO IN THE ZOO | Channel 9 | 362,000 |
| 13 | 10 NEWS FIRST | Channel 10 | 309,000 |
| 14 | THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM | Channel 7 | 304,000 |
| 15 | TIPPING POINT | Channel 9 | 276,000 |
| 16 | NINE’S AFTERNOON NEWS | Channel 9 | 272,000 |
| 17 | HOT SEAT 5PM | Channel 9 | 264,000 |
| 18 | THE PROJECT 7PM | Channel 10 | 263,000 |
| 19 | SUNRISE | Channel 7 | 255,000 |
| 20 | TODAY | Channel 9 | 224,000 |
Friday TV Sports FTA and STV
Cricket
Fox Cricket
T20 World Cup
Australia v Sri Lanka 41,000/37,000
Supercars Fox Sports
Sydney Super Night
Practice 59,000