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Australian Story the star in entertainment as Seven takes overall share

ABC’s Australian Story was the top rating entertainment program for Monday evening, however it was Seven that managed to take out overall share.

The episode, which featured the story of Australian performer Tim Minchin, brought in 585,000 metro viewers for the public broadcaster, ahead of Seven’s This Is Your Life, which saw 581,000 metro viewers tune in.

In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for Monday 31 October, The Block was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.783 million viewers, including 306,000 on BVOD, and an uplift of 32%. The biggest uplift of the week was seen for the premiere episode of Nine’s Love Island with a whopping uplift of 594% for a total of 326,000.

Next in entertainment was Ten’s Have You Been paying Attention, bringing in 508,000 metro viewers and topping all three key advertising demos. In fourth spot was Seven’s The Chase Australia, with 447,000 metro viewers, followed by Home and Away on Seven, which saw 443,000 metro viewers.

ABC’s Four Corners had a metro audience of 439,000, ahead of ABC’s Media Watch with 422,000 and Nine’s My Mum Your Dad, which launched to 396,000 metro viewers.

Nine’s Hot Seat brought in 347,000 metro viewers, while Ghosts on Ten had 289,000 metro viewers and Ten’s The Traitors had 260,000 metro viewers.

Meanwhile, Seven News at 6:30 won overall programming for Monday night, bringing in 840,000 metro viewers, followed by Seven News with 803,000 metro viewers. Nine News at 6:30 had 790,000 metro viewers, while Nine News on 747,000 metro viewers. Nine’s A Current Affair had 602,000 and ABC News had 544,000 metro viewers.

As mentioned, Seven won the overall network share for the evening with 30.2% over Nine’s 26.0%, while ABC took 18.4% and Ten had a share of 17.9%.

Seven also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Monday was 7Two with a share of 3.7%.

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