Seven won a high-rating Sunday night at the end of the ANZAC Day long weekend.
The final debate of the election campaign was broadcast by the Seven averaging 973k national viewers. That compares to the debate shown by ABC that averaged 1.01 million and Nine’s Great Debate that had 1.1 million last Tuesday. The subsequent discussion 7NEWS Spotlight The Verdict averaged 733k in the post 9pm time slot.
Earlier, The 1% Club aired a Ladies Night special to 1.116 m national viewers. Later the series premiere of Menendez & Menudo: Boys Betrayed just made the top 30 with 148k.
Nine had the top 6pm and 7pm programs with Nine News the number one program of the day, up almost 250k to over 1.5 million viewers and 30k ahead of Seven’s bulletin. The Travel Guides visited Switzerland with the program the number on entertainment show of the night with 1.178m. 60 Minutes that followed was up to 788k this week with the 9News Late: Election Special on 271k.
10 aired the premiere movie Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, that despite a large reach figure, averaged just under 200k. 10 News was its network’s top program.
The final episode of Vera on ABC lived up to expectations and topped the one million mark. Vera, Farewell Pet followed just after 9pm at over 800k with the movie My Brother Jack also a top 30 contender with 165k.
SBS’s Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes ranked 30th.
NRL afternoon footy saw Wests Tigers defeat the Sharks in Golden Point time that saw Sydney and Brisbane News start at 6:06pm. The game averaged 546k, the highest Sunday figures since the opening round.
AFL Afternoon featured several games that in total came to 551k, the best result in seven weeks.