Weekend TV ratings Saturday October 23, 2021

TV ratings

Matilda’s victory lifts 10 to biggest Saturday share of 2021

Network 10’s coverage of the Matildas v Brazil football international didn’t lift 10 to win the TV ratings. But the football match did its job helping 10 to its best Saturday share of 2021.

Overnight TV ratings: Seven

While the ABC drama Grantchester and 10’s coverage of the Matildas had the biggest audiences after 7.30pm, it was the movie audiences that helped guide Seven and Nine to ratings leadership.
Seven had the biggest movie audience with 287,000 watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Earlier in the evening Seven narrowly trailed Nine News at 6pm.
Earlier in the afternoon, Seven had an audience of 245,000 watching the Cox Plate coverage.

Nine

The primary channel and the network won the night and the week.
The Saturday first place finish was driven by Nine News Saturday and then the final episode of A Current Affair for the week. The latter climbed back closer to 600,000.
Nine’s Saturday movie Mama Mia! narrowly trailed Harry Potter with an audience of 274,000.

TV ratings

10

The channel’s primary channel share hasn’t been in double figures all year. However the Saturday share of 9.9% was better than any of the previous 41 weeks.
Driving the ratings recovery was the coverage of the first match between the Matildas and Brazil with a metro audience of 317,000. The game was a timeslot winner after Grantchester finished.
10’s other entries in the top 20 shows were 10 News First on 317,000 and the Matilda’s post game coverage with 211,000.

ABC

The Grantchester audience put the UK drama in the top five for the day with 492,000 watching – up from 453,000 a week ago.
A repeat episode of Shetland followed on 241,000, down a fraction on 251,000 last week.

SBS

Celebrity Letters and Numbers has been on a ratings rollercoaster since it launched. The numbers settled a little this week with 132,000 after 137,000 last week.
Dambusters with Dan Snow followed on 140,000, after recording an audience of 138,000 a week prior.

Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network

ABC 11.9% (17.3%)
Seven 17.8% (26.4%)
Nine 18.8% (30.9%)
10 9.9% (16.9%)
SBS 5.2% (8.5%)

See also: Weekend TV ratings Saturday October 16, 2021

Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

 

1NINE NEWS SATURDAYChannel 9819,000
2SEVEN NEWS SATURDAYChannel 7802,000
3ABC NEWS SATURDAYABC TV630,000
4A CURRENT AFFAIR SATURDAYChannel 9584,000
5GRANTCHESTERABC TV492,000
6GETAWAYChannel 9332,000
7FOOTBALL: MATILDAS V BRAZIL10 Bold, Channel 10317,000
8M: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIREChannel 7287,000
9M: MAMMA MIA!Channel 9274,000
10WEEKEND SUNRISE SATURDAYChannel 7254,000
11SEVEN’S HORSE RACING 2021 – COX PLATEChannel 7245,000
12SHETLAND (R)ABC TV241,000
1310 NEWS FIRST SATURDAYChannel 10223,000
14WEEKEND TODAY SATURDAYChannel 9217,000
15WEEKEND SUNRISE – SATURDAY – LATEChannel 7215,000
16BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R)Channel 7213,000
17FOOTBALL: MATILDAS V BRAZIL POST GAME10 Bold, Channel 10211,000
18WEEKEND TODAY – SATURDAY – LATEChannel 9199,000
19WEEKEND SUNRISE – SATURDAY – EARLYChannel 7188,000
20NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVEChannel 9186,000

 

Saturday Sports FTA and STV

 

Cricket

ICC T20 World Cup
Australia v South Africa
Fox Cricket 224,000/186,000

Horseracing

Cox Plate 255,000 Seven (metro)
Raceday Saturday Sky Racing 53,000 (national)

Formula 1

United States Grand Prix
Austin, Texas
Fox Sports
Practice 2: 38,000

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