Thursday February 6
While MAFS will dominate early evening, can Seven make up ground in late night shares?
Married at First Sight 1.01m
Movie: Pitch Perfect 2 Rpt 0.41m
BBL Finals: The Challenger: Stars v Thunder session 1: 0.39m, session 2: 0.42m
Ambulance Australia season premiere 0.54m
Law & Order: SVU 0.29m
Friday February 7
Better Homes and Gardens season premiere 0.55m
AFLW: Richmond v Carlton (Seven/7mate) 0.35m
Movie: Bastille Day premiere (Seven/7mate) 0.26m
The Graham Norton Show 0.31m
Movie: Baywatch (2017) premiere 0.29m
Saturday February 8
It will be a long night ahead for Seven with the BBL final a probable washout.
With today’s weather in Sydney, the battle of the 6pm bulletins will be close tonight and at least one of the two should get over 300k viewers - personally I think Peter Overton’s interview of Hendo will be just enough to get Nine over the line.
As far as primetime is concerned…Married At First Sight will probably be the night’s #1 show, Dancing With The Stars is likely to perform respectably (probably beating MAFS in Perth and Adelaide where many viewers don’t like Nine) while I’m expecting MKR to struggle.
Given there was an article in this morning’s Sunday Telegraph, surely it’s not unreasonable to presume there’d be people who might’ve seen that in the paper and wondered if Nine would have anything about Brian Henderson during tonight’s bulletin?!
As far as Nine promoting Pete’s interview with Hendo is concerned, it was plugged at least three times (Opening Headlines + two “Coming Up” bits) during the bulletin and probably even more when the “Alerts” are taken into consideration.
Of course the Weather coverage is the main reason why I think tonight’s Sydney news ratings should be high/close. If Seven News beats Nine in the ratings, go ahead and say that I was wrong (even if questions should be asked about that talking point you hate me bringing up - the quality of weather coverage on Nine News Sydney)!
Thursday February 13
My Kitchen Rules 0.47m
Modern Family season premiere 0.31m / 0.29m
Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back 0.15m
RBT Rpt 0.39m
Movie: Transformers: The Last Knight premiere 0.27m
Ambulance Australia 0.45m
Law & Order: SVU new 0.24m
Sunday February 16
The Fire Fight concert should raise a lot of money for bushfire victims but it will only rate on Foxtel and not Seven. Nine will dominate the night.
Married at First Sight 1.18m
60 Minutes 0.69m
Dancing with the Stars 0.54m
Fire Fight Australia concert premiere 0.24m (afternoon), 0.45m (evening)
MAFS got barely over 1 million metro viewers last night and with ratings typically falling as the week progresses, I reckon somewhere around 950k-990k would be a more realistic prediction.