Triple Home And Away Thursday was back on Seven with the coding showing the first episode with just over 700k dropping to 600k for episode three. It helped Seven cruise to an easy national win thanks to big shares in AFL markets while Nine won Sydney and Brisbane. .
AFL Thursday featured Western Bulldogs convincing win over North Melbourne , that just missed the top 10 with 541k, up 15k from last week to a five-week high. Also back in the schedule was Clarkson’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire UK that had 224k.
There was lots of sport on Nine with the opening round of the NRL Women’s Premiership that saw the Eels with a narrow win over the Sharks average 284k, 400k lower than the NRL game of the previous week.
Meanwhile Day 4 at Wimbledon had main channel status in AFL markets. The prematch had 146k lifting to 386k for the night segment while the late segment had 274k and included Alex De Minaur’s win to proceed to round three.
Airport 24/7 was up to episode 5 on 10 with 372k watching, up 30k from last week. The one off special The Kim Kardashian Diamond Heist followed at 8.30pm with just 126k. The revamped early evening program continued to fall with 10 news+ down to 159k while Deal Or No Deal at 7pm had 241k. 10 are going to have to address the 6pm timeslot urgently.
Joanna Lumley’s Danube continued for ABC, improving slightly to 484k while a Grand Designs Australia repeat followed with 309k.
Nine News won the 6pm news contest with a 35k margin after Tipping Point topped 800k at 5pm for an easy win.