Tuesday 4 May 2021

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Five City Metro, 6pm-12am, Total People

Network
Overnight
ABC
13.8%
ABC K/P
2.6%
ABC Me
0.4%
ABC News
1.9%

ABC TTL

18.8%
Seven
18.5%
7Two
3.4%
7Mate
3.9%
7Flix
1.7%

Seven TTL

27.5%
Nine
20.3%
9GO!
2.8%
9GEM
2.5%
9Life
2.0%
9Rush
1.2%

Nine TTL

28.8%
10
10.9%
10 Bold
3.4%
10 Peach
3.2%
10 Shake
0.5%

Ten TTL

17.9%
SBS
4.2%
Viceland
1.2%
SBSFood
0.9%
NITV
0.1%
WorldMovies
0.6%

SBS TTL

7.0%

Top 20 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN NEWS Seven
981,000
205,000
294,000
194,000
106,000
182,000
2 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
978,000
225,000
315,000
175,000
101,000
162,000
3 NINE NEWS Nine
952,000
266,000
299,000
196,000
107,000
83,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
922,000
240,000
321,000
195,000
93,000
73,000
5 LEGO MASTERS -TUE Nine
700,000
197,000
222,000
124,000
64,000
92,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine
695,000
176,000
243,000
148,000
67,000
62,000
7 OLD PEOPLE'S HOME FOR 4 YEAR OLDS-EV ABC TV
637,000
184,000
217,000
97,000
61,000
78,000
8 ABC NEWS-EV ABC TV
609,000
160,000
201,000
92,000
72,000
86,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Seven
593,000
161,000
174,000
101,000
58,000
98,000
10 ANH'S BRUSH WITH FAME-EV ABC TV
545,000
160,000
175,000
76,000
66,000
69,000
11 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven
533,000
125,000
164,000
85,000
53,000
106,000
12 7.30-EV ABC TV
526,000
160,000
172,000
73,000
54,000
66,000
13 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA TUES 10
517,000
131,000
194,000
83,000
53,000
56,000
14 BIG BROTHER - TUE Seven
515,000
142,000
146,000
91,000
65,000
72,000
15 HOT SEAT Nine
478,000
144,000
178,000
115,000
29,000
11,000
16 THE PROJECT 7PM 10
435,000
99,000
148,000
86,000
45,000
58,000
17 10 NEWS FIRST 10
363,000
104,000
109,000
58,000
24,000
68,000
18 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM Seven
325,000
76,000
108,000
48,000
25,000
69,000
19 THE GOOD DOCTOR Seven
299,000
82,000
95,000
47,000
24,000
52,000
20 THE PROJECT 6.30PM 10
291,000
71,000
93,000
72,000
18,000
37,000

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Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 LEGO MASTERS -TUE Nine
358,000
95,000
117,000
62,000
34,000
50,000
2 NINE NEWS Nine
271,000
71,000
89,000
48,000
36,000
27,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
267,000
69,000
89,000
56,000
31,000
22,000
4 BIG BROTHER - TUE Seven
253,000
73,000
74,000
49,000
25,000
32,000
5 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
253,000
61,000
87,000
44,000
15,000
46,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 LEGO MASTERS -TUE Nine
310,000
84,000
97,000
57,000
27,000
44,000
2 BIG BROTHER - TUE Seven
227,000
65,000
67,000
39,000
24,000
33,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
225,000
59,000
70,000
48,000
29,000
19,000
4 NINE NEWS Nine
216,000
55,000
70,000
38,000
30,000
23,000
5 THE PROJECT 7PM 10
200,000
57,000
70,000
34,000
15,000
24,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 LEGO MASTERS -TUE Nine
157,000
51,000
38,000
29,000
16,000
23,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
144,000
35,000
46,000
32,000
21,000
11,000
3 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA TUES 10
122,000
30,000
54,000
17,000
9,000
12,000
4 NINE NEWS Nine
119,000
30,000
36,000
25,000
18,000
9,000
5 BIG BROTHER - TUE Seven
112,000
34,000
34,000
16,000
16,000
12,000

Top 20 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
182,000
58,000
55,000
25,000
21,000
24,000
2 SHAUN THE SHEEP-EV ABC K/P
171,000
57,000
45,000
26,000
15,000
28,000
3 PETER RABBIT-EV ABC K/P
170,000
55,000
50,000
26,000
18,000
19,000
4 NCIS RPT 10 Bold
164,000
54,000
39,000
26,000
15,000
30,000
5 BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM-PM ABC K/P
161,000
60,000
47,000
31,000
7,000
17,000
6 OUTBACK TRUCKERS-PM 7mate
157,000
28,000
52,000
23,000
24,000
30,000
7 ANDY'S AQUATIC ADVENTURES-EV ABC K/P
155,000
62,000
32,000
22,000
14,000
25,000
8 SCHOOL OF ROARS-EV ABC K/P
146,000
47,000
49,000
22,000
11,000
17,000
9 PEPPA PIG-PM ABC K/P
146,000
51,000
31,000
23,000
15,000
26,000
10 HIGHWAY PATROL-PM 7mate
140,000
22,000
55,000
19,000
23,000
21,000
11 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
139,000
15,000
44,000
20,000
31,000
30,000
12 HIGHWAY PATROL-EP.2 PM 7mate
138,000
23,000
49,000
18,000
19,000
29,000
13 RUSTY RIVETS-PM ABC K/P
131,000
44,000
35,000
19,000
11,000
21,000
14 CATIE'S AMAZING MACHINES-EV ABC K/P
124,000
44,000
24,000
20,000
18,000
18,000
15 KANGAROO BEACH-PM ABC K/P
122,000
39,000
31,000
19,000
15,000
18,000
16 MEGATRUCKERS-PM 7mate
118,000
26,000
40,000
14,000
17,000
20,000
17 NEIGHBOURS 10 Peach
114,000
23,000
41,000
20,000
19,000
11,000
18 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
113,000
40,000
21,000
24,000
12,000
16,000
19 ODD SQUAD-EV ABC K/P
109,000
41,000
21,000
18,000
19,000
11,000
20 PIE IN THE SKY-PM 7TWO
108,000
22,000
27,000
25,000
12,000
22,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
63,000
25,000
9,000
12,000
8,000
8,000
2 NEIGHBOURS 10 Peach
58,000
7,000
24,000
11,000
11,000
4,000
3 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 2 RPT 10 Peach
53,000
17,000
8,000
11,000
10,000
7,000
4 MOM RPT 10 Peach
49,000
17,000
14,000
8,000
6,000
5,000
5 THE SIMPSONS-EP.2 PM 7flix
47,000
10,000
23,000
5,000
5,000
5,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
55,000
24,000
7,000
10,000
7,000
7,000
2 NEIGHBOURS 10 Peach
51,000
8,000
21,000
9,000
8,000
4,000
3 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 2 RPT 10 Peach
48,000
15,000
7,000
10,000
11,000
5,000
4 MOM RPT 10 Peach
47,000
16,000
10,000
7,000
6,000
8,000
5 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
45,000
15,000
13,000
4,000
6,000
7,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 PETER RABBIT-EV ABC K/P
33,000
12,000
12,000
2,000
3,000
5,000
2 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
33,000
9,000
13,000
2,000
5,000
5,000
3 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 2 RPT 10 Peach
32,000
12,000
2,000
4,000
9,000
5,000
4 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
31,000
14,000
4,000
4,000
5,000
4,000
5 THE SIMPSONS-EP.2 PM 7flix
30,000
7,000
14,000
2,000
6,000
3,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network National
1 THE BOLT REPORT Sky News Live
67,000
2 CREDLIN Sky News Live
60,000
3 LIVE: AFL 360 FOX FOOTY
60,000
4 PAUL MURRAY LIVE Sky News Live
56,000
5 LIVE: NRL 360 FOX LEAGUE
50,000
6 ALAN JONES Sky News Live
47,000
7 THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF Lifestyle FOOD
44,000
8 PML LATER Sky News Live
38,000
9 THE KENNY REPORT Sky News Live
30,000
10 THE BACK PAGE FOX SPORTS 503
30,000
11 MIDSOMER MURDERS UKTV
28,000
12 AS TIME GOES BY FOX Classics
28,000
13 FIRST EDITION Sky News Live
28,000
14 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY Lifestyle Channel
27,000
15 FIRST EDITION Sky News Live
26,000
16 JEOPARDY! FOX Classics
26,000
17 CORONATION STREET UKTV
26,000
18 BUTTERBEAN'S CAFE Nick Jr.
25,000
19 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Lifestyle Channel
24,000
20 ARE YOU BEING SERVED? FOX Classics
24,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL 360 FOX LEAGUE
22,000
2 LIVE: AFL 360 FOX FOOTY
21,000
3 THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF Lifestyle FOOD
15,000
4 NRL 360 FOX LEAGUE
14,000
5 THE SIMPSONS FOX8
13,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: AFL 360 FOX FOOTY
19,000
2 LIVE: NRL 360 FOX LEAGUE
14,000
3 THE SIMPSONS FOX8
13,000
4 FAMILY GUY FOX8
12,000
5 THE SIMPSONS FOX8
12,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Network National
1 FAMILY GUY FOX8
13,000
2 LIVE: AFL 360 FOX FOOTY
13,000
3 AMERICAN DAD! FOX8
10,000
4 THE SIMPSONS FOX8
9,000
5 LIVE: NRL 360 FOX LEAGUE
8,000

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#2

Another close result between Nine and Seven as Nine wins its third consecutive day this week. Disappointing result for 10 dropping 1.5 from the previous week to land behind ABC. Nine won the east coast and key demo groups.

The three reality franchise all lost audience week-on-week. For LEGO Masters it was just 25,000 but for MasterChef it was 85,000 and Big Brother over 100k both with season lows.

For 10, the debut of the new series of How To Stay Married bombed, missing the top 20 and only managing 15th in the 25-54 demo group.

The Good Doctor was best of a bad bunch of post reality shows and even it was down on recent results.

ABC’s Old People’s Home continued to do well, posting a small increase from the previous week to a season high. Anh’s Brush with Fame was steady.

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#3

Not a good start to the new season of How to Stay Married. Maybe 10 should have waited for Old People’s Home to finish last night before premiering the sitcom next Tuesday.

#4

Man, just woeful ratings all around lately - the fact that the highest rating entertainment show on a Tuesday evening is 700k really is a cause for concern around the viability of FTA TV.

Looking at the US ratings they’re also seeing massive declines and record low viewing numbers - obviously entertainment options have diversified significantly and perhaps even further accelerated by the spike in take up of streaming subscriptions through the pandemic but it will have an impact of the type of shows that networks are able to commission, at least here in Australia in the short term.

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#5

Networks can’t keep waiting, that’s why we get weeks of nothingness. If a show is good and built well it should be competitive. Anyway next week it follows HYBPA on Monday at roughly the same time and will probably get bigger ratings.

#6

You need to forget this period last year as viewer numbers were volatile, look at 2 Year.

#7

I don’t think any of the three networks would be happy with how their current ‘tentpole’ programs are performing this year at all. While yes Lego Masters’ is still pulling decent numbers compared to MasterChef and Big Brother, Nine would have expected it to be doing better.

#8

Outside the dismally performing top 20 were even worse results for:

21 JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
25 THE DAY WILL AND KATE GOT MARRIED-LE
26 HOW TO STAY MARRIED
27 10 NEWS FIRST 6PM
35 NCIS (marginally better than the repeat on 10 Bold)
60 ABC LATE NEWS-LE
77 NINE NEWS: LATE EDITION -TUE
113 THE LATEST: SEVEN NEWS (one of lowest numbers seen)

At breakfast Sunrise was an easy winner +70,000 ahead of Today that slipped below the 200k mark. Sunrise’s win was notable for being number one in all markets (Brisbane was a tie with News B). News Breakfast was 20k behind Today.

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#9

From Nine:

9NETWORK DOMINATES TUESDAY’S PRIME TIME VIEWING

9Network was the winning network across the 5 City with People 25-54 , People 16-39 , GS + Child and Total People .

Channel 9 was the primary channel of choice across the 5 City with People 25-54 , People 16-39 , GS + Child and Total People .

LEGO Masters was Australia’s No.1 program of the night with all the key demographics.

LEGO Masters was a time slot winner across the 5 City and East Coast and in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

9News was the No.1 program of the night across the East Coast and in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and the No.3 program of the night in Melbourne.

9News was the winning bulletin across the 5 City Metro with People 25-54, People 16-39 and GS + Child.

9News 6.30 was the No.1 program of the night in Melbourne and the No.2 program of the night across the East Coast and in Sydney and Brisbane.

9News 6.30 was the winning bulletin across the 5 City Metro with People 25-54, People 16-39 and GS + Child.

9News 6.30 achieved a national peak audience of 1.292 million (Metro: 995,000 / Regional: 297,000) and a national average audience of 1.155 million (Metro: 922,000 / Regional: 235,000).

A Current Affair secured the 7pm audience across the 5 City and East Coast and in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Hot Seat won the gameshow battle in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

TODAY was the breakfast show of choice in Melbourne. ← This is incorrect

From 10:

  • 10 Bold: #1 commercial multi-channel show: NCIS Rpt.
  • 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.

MasterChef Australia Tuesday:

  • #2 in its timeslot.
  • #2 in its timeslot in 16 to 39s, #3 in under 50s and 25 to 54s.
  • #2 entertainment show in 16 to 39s.
  • Live stream audience up 20% compared with Ep 12, 2020.

The Project 7pm:

  • #1 in its timeslot in under 50s and 25 to 54s.

10 News First:

  • #1 in its timeslot in 25 to 54s.
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#10

10 should have put all episode of how to stay married on 10 play. It worked quite well last year and generated some conversation on the show before it went to air on free to air

#11

A pretty ordinary night of TV which is reflected in the ratings.

Lego Masters did OK but nothing really to write home about, good to see Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds finish on a season high (and it’ll certainly be interesting to see how Love On The Spectrum rates the Tuesday after next) but that’s about it really.

It doesn’t really help that Australia’s commercial networks have been in a rut for a while now, continually dishing out the same old formats year after year with very little (if anything) in the way of new ideas.

Honestly
shows like Big Brother & MasterChef have been decent performers in the past, but that was 10-15 years ago. Unless Seven/Nine/Ten can come up with bold, innovative formats soon, they’ll continue to shed viewers and slowly die against Netflix, etc.

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#12

Yep, pretty much spot on - and it is not to say formats like Big Brother and Masterchef don’t have a place in the schedule but there is just an over-reliance on formats that are 10 and in some cases 20+ years old (The Block, Big Brother, Amazing Race, Survivor, Masterchef, Bachelor, Farmer Wants A Wife).

It feels like in the last 5 years there has been very little change or excitement in any networks schedule, it is simply rinse and repeat. Fatigue and boredom have set in but I think this is indicative of what we can expect into the future - why would a commercial network risk something new when the audience is just not showing up? I don’t know that there is much of a solution for commercial FTA business.

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#13

As a counterpoint to that Seven (in particular) has flooded our screens with new formats largely to no success at all. It is only their revived formats from years ago like Big Brother, Farmer WAF and DWTS that they have done well at all. SAS a possible exception.

Some recent new formats for Seven include Ultimate Tag, Holey Moley, Pooch Perfect, The Super Switch, Wife Swap Australia, The Proposal

Some other misses- Show Me the Movie, The Cube, Saturday Night Rove

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#14

Old People’s Home did well, for a show starting at 8.30pm. How To Stay Married, however, not so well, which is a shame.

#15

I think this one though was a late change for something, did seem like it didn’t fit, random filler placement

#16

was a filler for The Weakest Link, which was originally scheduled for yesterday. 21st for this movie was better than i thought it would get.

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#17

LOL if Weakest Link rates worse than that and in a presumably earlier timeslot now

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#18

Most were cheap crap though. I’ll give you Holey Moley which launched well but got old quickly plus they cooked it by airing 3+ 90 min episodes per week.

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#19

@TV.Cynic Can Seven even justify putting this program to air any more?

I get that it’s good to have a late night news program for the ‘news brand’, but why do they even bother with this show when it is buried late at night and gets low audiences?

Just seems like a waste of money and resources that could be diverted elsewhere across the network.

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