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829,000 metro viewers tune in for the penultimate episode of The Bachelorette

Ten’s 2019 season of The Bachelorette is drawing to a close, with former Gogglebox Australia star Angie Kent choosing her final two on Wednesday night with 829,000 metro viewers watching on.

The show popped just over 1m national viewers and topped all three of the key advertising demographics – 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s. 760,000 metro viewers tuned in to watch the penultimate episode of The Bachelor earlier this year. Sophie Monk’s 2017 season of The Bachelorette, which has been the most successful, delivered 1.1m metro viewers for the episode before the finale.

Angie Kent selected her top two from Carlin, Timm and Ryan last night

It was the most-watched entertainment program of the evening, but the title of most-watched overall went to Seven News with 963,000 metro and 1.5m national viewers. Nine News delivered 791,000 metro viewers and 1.05m nationally. Seven News also took second spot in all three of the demographics.

Gruen was the next most popular entertainment program with 664,000 metro viewers, followed by Home and Away with 569,000.

Nine’s premiere of David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet brought in 538,000 metro viewers and 786,000 nationally. It focused on Antarctica, and is part of a partnership between Nine and the BBC.

Over on Seven, Motorbike Cops delivered 481,000 metro viewers for its first episode and 506,000 for its second. The Good Doctor delivered 462,000, just ahead of ABC’s Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery with 456,000.

Nine’s Love Island Australia brought in 228,000 metro viewers and Seven’s God Friended Me brought in 234,000.

Seven won the night overall with 18.7% and 26.4% audience share as a channel and a network respectively. Nine held 15.8% and 25.5% and Ten 13.9% and 21.6%. ABC secured 13.3% and 18.9%. The most-watched multi was 10Bold with 5.1%.

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