Married At First Sight has a rat (what’s new?), a cad who wouldn’t give his girl (aka “wife”) a straight answer: meet Cody. Why do young women like Selina allow themselves to be so publicly humiliated? Well at least the MAFS producers and Nine are happy.
MAFS managed 1.05 million last night, down 102,000 from the opening 1.15 million on Monday — still around five-year lows for free-to-air. But the BVOD’s are still doing very well at 377,000, up 30% on last year, so the total audience was close to 1.4 million last night. And I bet there is a lot of streaming going on.
Australian Survivor on Ten drew 623,000 — a bit of a left right out. And the final ep of The Voice Generations on Seven attracted 805,000, which wasn’t bad for a stop-gap.
On the ABC, 839,000 for the the return of Hard Quiz. Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell returned for series 14 with a new look and a very keen eye on the election campaign, including pointing out that Albanese had got himself new glasses over Christmas-New Year so that “he would look like Joel Fitzgibbon in coalmining seats”. Very cruel. 801,000 nationally.
Viewer alert: Seven’s coverage of the Winter Olympic Games from Beijing starts in earnest tonight, a 10-day marathon of agony for Seven if Australians don’t do well.
Network channel share:
- Nine (32.0%)
- Seven (26.2%)
- Ten (17.6%)
- ABC (16.6%)
- SBS (7.4%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (23.5%)
- Seven (18.7%)
- ABC (12.9%)
- Ten (12.0%)
- SBS ONE (4.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (3.5%)
- 7mate (2.8%)
- GO, 10 Peach (2.7%)
- 10 Bold (2.6%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.482 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.425 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.215 million
- Nine News — 1.174 million
- Married At First Sight (Nine) — 1.056 million (plus 377,000 BVOD)
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 957,000
- 7pm ABC News — 956,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 839,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 837,000
- The Voice Generations (Seven) — 805,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional top 5: Seven News, 525,000; Seven News 6.30, 500,000; Home and Away, 337,000; 7pm ABC News, 307,000; Nine News 6.30, 302,000.
Losers: again, MAFS viewers.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 956,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 925,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 912,000
- Nine News — 874,000
- ACA (Nine) — 694,000
- 7pm ABC News — 648,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 525,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 411,000
- 10 News First — 302,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 222,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 423,000/257,000
- Today (Nine) — 309,000/209,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 270,000/174,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 240,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 161,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 48,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 58,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 47,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 46,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 43,000
- The Big Bang Theory (Fox Funny) — 30,000
