It was a lot closer at the top of the Monday ratings leaderboard with Nine’s launch of The Golden Bachelor ranking second at 7.30pm with 749k. The show had as 1.9 million reach suggesting a lot of sampling of the new format.
The result saw My Kitchen Rules’ latest elimination episode as the night’s top entertainment show, topping one million viewers for the first time this season.
Over on 10, The Amazing Race Australia Celebrity edition concluded with 663k, the highest rated episode since the launch and up on last year’s final that had 611k.
The result was just behind Australian Story that dropped by 80k to a three month low of 668k while Big Fat Quiz Best Bits: Ultimate Rivals on SBS had just 72k.
Following, Four Corners had a win with 544k ahead of Sam Pang Tonight’s second episode of the season that was up 30k to top 500k. That was slightly ahead of The Rookie with 502k while Freddie Mercury: A Secret Daughter had just under 300k on Nine. King & Conqueror’s 4th episode dropped to 93k on SBS.
ABC’s Media Watch was down 130k week-on-week but still did well with 529k while Planet America was down a similar amount to 475k.
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen with 311k had more viewers watching last night for its encore than watched the original broadcast the previous Tuesday. It was ahead of Alert: Missing Persons Unit with 223k.
At 5pm Tipping Point had featured a record prize was up 70k from the previous Monday and 200k ahead of The Chase. Following at 6pm Nine News took a win with A Current Affair also well ahead of the competition at 7pm. Deal or No Deal had 312k for 10 at 7pm after 10 News+ had 145k.
The Golden Bachelor was the No. 1 entertainment program across the 5 City Metro with People 25 to 54 and People 16 to 39. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.908 million, a Total TV National Audience of 749,000 and a BVOD Audience of 142,000.
9News was the No. 1 program across Australia and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with Total People and Shoppers 18+. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.166 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.372 million up 13.7% on the same night last year**.** On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 168,000, up a huge 71.4% year-on-year.
A Current Affair dominated the 7.00pm timeslot across Australia and in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide with Total People and all key demographics. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.758 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.170 million up 16.7% year-on-year. On 9Now, it registered a BVOD Audience of 143,000 - up 64.4% year-on-year.
Tipping Point Australia was the No.1 afternoon game show across Australia and in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide with Total People. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 1.454 million and a Total TV National Audience of 818,000 (up 24.1% year-on-year). On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 99,000, up an impressive 102.0% year-on-year.
Today was the breakfast program of choice in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with Total People. It achieved a National Total TV Reach of 842,000, a Total TV National Audience of 330,000 up 5.8% year-on-year**.** On 9Now, its BVOD audience was 51,000, up a significant 41.7% year-on-year.
The 9Network was the No.1 Network on Monday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demographics
Decent figures for the debut of The Golden Bachelor. Must be the combination of the halo effect from The Block and a curiosity factor at the newest Bachelor franchise to screen in Australia.
The Amazing Race Australia finished its season on a high.
Sam Pang Tonight went nearly 20 minutes overtime, finishing at around 10pm, so TAYG encore’s figures will need to be adjusted.
Seven #1 nationally in total TV National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 42.4% National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 42.3% 7plus: #1 in BVOD, up 53% year-on-year 7NEWS: reaches 2.1 million MKR: reaches 1.76 million, up 13% year-on-year Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 25% bigger than Today
Seven Network reaches 5.73 million Australians nationally. 7plus: #1 on BVOD with 45.9% share, reach up 53% year-on-year.
6am to midnight:
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 42.4% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in grocery shoppers with a 42.4% share.
6pm to midnight:
Seven Network: #1 nationally in total TV in all people with a 42.3% share.
Seven Network: #1 nationally in grocery shoppers with a 42.6% share. 7NEWS Monday**:** National reach 2.1 million, national audience 1.35 million. My Kitchen Rules Monday: #1 entertainment program in total TV. national reach 1.76 million, national audience 1.03 million. Highest rated episode this year. Up 13% year-on-year. Home and Away Monday**: #1 drama.** National reach 1.39 million, national audience 910,000. The Chase Australia Monday: National reach 1.23 million, national audience 620,000. Up on previous week. The Rookie : National reach 1 million, national audience 502,000. Sunrise Monday: #1 breakfast in total TV. National reach 946,000, national audience 414,000. 25% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
42.4
39.4
42.4
Nine Network
39.0
38.1
39.2
Network Ten
18.6
22.5
18.4
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight
The Amazing Race Australia Records Biggest Ever Streaming Audience. Total Audience Up 7% Year-On-Year. The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition Finale:
Reached 1.12 million total national viewers.
#1 in its timeslot in 25 to 54s.
Season to-date:
Reached 6.3 million total viewers.
Total audience averaged 812,000, up 7% vs. 2024.
Biggest streaming audience ever, up 54% vs. 2024.
Sam Pang Tonight:
Reached 1.11 million total national viewers.
#1 in its timeslot in 25 to 54s.
Season to-date:
Reaching 1.8 million total national viewers.
Streaming audience up 34% vs. H1 2025.
7-Day Total Viewing Audience (Monday, 13 October):
The Amazing Race Australia:Celebrity Edition: Reached 1.29 million.
Sam Pang Tonight: Reached 1.19 million.
10:
10’s Total TV audience was up 1% vs. the same night in 2024, and its BVOD was up 82%.
10’s prime time metro audience was up 5% on the same night last year.
Seven News Sydney lands third again in its market and again rates less than Seven News Brisbane. It isn’t far ahead of Seven Perth had hit a 2025 high (post Telethon?).
Tipping Point’s big win delivers in all markets except Perth where The Chase is ahead.
Today and Sunrise tie with big east coast wins for Today balancing Sunrise dominance in Adelaide and Perth
Ive said that before about some of 10s shows. They have a dedicated audience but not at 730 holding up their night, but realistically ends up dragging it down.
Very close (metro) between all three reality shows, something not often seen these days.
I think Nine probably wanted a bit higher, but it’s still a solid launch and against a resurgent MKR and Amazing Race finale. Golden Bach did better with younger viewers than I thought, getting the metro win was a good result. Tonight will be interesting. Also shows how strong Seven’s regional are and despite a near 300k margin still clearly suffer from an older audience issue.
One programming move that hasn’t received much discussion is 10’s decision to encore its reality shows in a morning timeslot, rather than the traditional midday or afternoon slot. Interestingly, this strategy could be said to be successful as the encore broadcasts are performing comparatively well against the commercial competition, which mostly consists of TMS and Today Extra.
These morning encores alos easily outperform 10’s afternoon lineup that leads into Neighbours. While the shows might draw slightly higher ratings if they were later in the day, there’s little else 10 could air in the mornings that would achieve similar results. Even Judge Judy, which follows, typically outrates much of the afternoon schedule..
Monday: As seen above TAR had 136,000 which was ahead of Today Extra Late at 11am with 124,000 while TMS had 170,000 at 11am. The best afternoon rating on 10 was the Afternoon News with 75,000.
PS - Seven’s strategy regarding reality encores, by contrast, is questionable. The introduction of Winning Arvo, now sees the encores air on 7Flix. Yesterday, The Voice got 12,000 on 7Flix while over on Nine’s main channel The Block had 215,000. That’s a big sacrifice sponsors of the show are making for the new programming strategy.