Cardinal George Pell’s first TV interview since his release from jail brought 161,000 viewers to Sky News on Tuesday night, making it the most-watched subscription TV program.
Pell was interviewed by longtime supporter Andrew Bolt on the Bolt Report and described corruption in the Vatican and a witchhunt to have him convicted of child sex abuse.
Elsewhere in TV ratings, it was a historical night for Ten as Masterchef managed to stay above 1m metro viewers for its second night, driving Ten to an audience share of 18.6% for its primary channel and making it the most-watched channel of the night. 1.094m metro viewers tuned in for the program and 1.405m nationally – Masterchef’s biggest audience for a second episode since 2011.
Masterchef also topped all three of the key advertising demographics – 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s), followed by The Project in all three.
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Up against Masterchef, Nine’s A Current Affair delivered 794,000 metro viewers at 7pm followed by David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet at 8pm with 397,000 metro viewers. Seven’s House Rules: High Stakes delivered 499,000 metro viewers.
Seven News brought in 1.329m metro viewers and 2.052m nationally making it the most-watched program of the night.
Nine News delivered 1.140m metro viewers and 1.497m nationally. ABC News brought in 977,000 metro viewers and 1.413m nationally. The Project also got a boost, jumping to 720,000 metro viewers at 7pm – its biggest audience since June 2017.
Behind Ten in the channel share, Seven held 17.9% and Nine 15.4%. ABC secured 12.0% and SBS 5.8%.
Seven slipped ahead with the addition of multi-channels, however, with Seven claiming 25.5% of the share. Ten held second place behind Seven with 24.3%, followed by Nine on 23.0%. ABC held 16.8% and SBS Network 10.4%. 10 Bold was the most-watched multi-channel with 3.7%.