Night two of the 2022’s first reality battle saw Australian Survivor the biggest casualty, dropping 100k from the launch episode. While the show still ranked second in key demos it fell behind the second episode of The Voice Generations that held onto most of its audience, only down 39k. Meanwhile Married At First Sight was steady.
Nine won the night easily including the key demos. 10 was again an easy second place in the demos. Nine won all markets except Perth that was won by Seven.
Earlier, Nine News had a poor night especially at 6pm. With a tie in the Melbourne market, Nine managed a win along the east coast with Seven posting big wins in Adelaide and Perth.
7pm saw Home and Away struggling in its first week back while post reality, The Weakest Link’s latest special episode managed 372,000 against not much competition.
ABC’s Catalyst and Outback Ringer had disappointing results.
Good result for Nine News Late’s first 2022 bulletin - beating Seven’s 9pm programming.
Outside the top 5 in 25-54 included
Rank
Channel
Program
6
Seven
SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30
7
10
THE PROJECT 7PM
8
Nine
A CURRENT AFFAIR
9
Nine
THE WEAKEST LINK
10
Seven
HOME AND AWAY
11
Seven
THE VOICE: GENERATIONS - TUE
12
10
THE PROJECT 6.30PM
13
ABC
ABC NEWS-EV
14
10
10 NEWS FIRST 6PM
15
10
10 NEWS FIRST
20
Nine
TODAY
22
Seven
ADELE ONE NIGHT ONLY (R)
25
Seven
SUNRISE
At breakfast, Sunrise improved with its lead over Today to 20,000 after yesterday’s close result while News Breakfast improved to be 35k behind Today - perhaps audiences prefer hosts to stick around for the full program.
Rare win for Sunrise in Melbourne, while Sunrise continues to lag behind in Brisbane.
Syd T > S > N
Mel S > T > N
Bri T > N > S
Ade S > T > N
Per S > N > T
Also, Nine’s Afternoon News in Perth (locally made) seems to be doing well against 10 News First Perth. It will be interesting to see if Nine can keep chipping away at this time slot.
Fair enough on the ranking. But H and A seems to be lower than expected for opening week in total people when last season it managed 600k on the first 2 eps. But also in the demos it seems to be lagging.
Pretty big drop for Survivor. I think it’s likely that the first episode might have initially launched to a bigger audience that dropped off due to the length of it (and very slow first hour) and they just didn’t come back.