Catalyst falls away for ABC as Home and Away tops non-news viewing in disjointed night
Home and Away was the most watched non-news show last night with only one program – Nine News at 6pm – topping one million in a fragmented Thursday night’s viewing as different programs aired in different states.
Seven’s long running soapie drew 881,000 in the 7pm slot, followed in the non-news category by the second part of ABC’s medicine documentary Catalyst which attracted 721,000 metro viewers. But that was a sharp fall of 120,000 from last week’s first instalment.
Nine won the night with 23.4 per cent of viewers on the main channels, with Seven on 18.2 per cent and Ten 13.1 per cent. ABC’s share slipped almost one percentage point from last Thursday to 12.1 per cent while SBS picked up 4.7 per cent.
In the 7.30 slot, Ten’s The Bachelor drew an audience of 681,000 viewers, 42,000 more than last Thursday on the back of sending “intruder” bachelorettes into the house to compete for the bachelor. The performance saw Ten have the highest audience of the night in the 25-54 demographic.
However Nine captured the highest audience share of the night, with the 487,000 people tuning in from Sydney and Brisbane to watch the Bulldogs take on the Tigers in the NRL. Renovation program The Block Glasshouse showed in other states and drew 585,000.
Seven showed the movie Snow White and the Huntsman at 8.30pm which attracted 396,000.
The most watched program of the night was Nine News at 6pm with an audience of 1.07m followed by Seven News with 997,000. Numbers fell away to 990,000 and 915,000 in the 6.30pm sections of the bulletins.
Top 20 shows
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 – 1,075,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 – 997,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 – 990,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 – 915,000
5 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 – 881,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 – 816,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC1 – 721,000
8 CATALYST-EV Network ABC1 – 721,000
9 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA THURS Network TEN – 681,000
10 THE FOOTY SHOW Network 9 – 659,000
11 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN – 656,000
12 ABC NEWS UPDATE Network ABC1 – 655,000
13 7.30 Network ABC1 – 640,000
14 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN – 630,000
15 SILK Network ABC1 – 600,000
16 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN – 596,000
17 THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE -THU Network 9 – 585,000
18 HOT SEAT Network 9 – 575,000
19 BORDER SECURITY: INTERNATIONAL Network 7 – 556,000
20 MILLION DOLLAR MINUTE Network 7 – 544,000
Audience share
Network 9 – 23.4%
Network 7 – 18.2%
Network 10 – 13.1%
Network ABC1 – 12.1%
Network 7Two – 5.5%
Network SBS1 – 4.7%
Network GO! – 4%
Network 7mate – 3.5%
Network ABC2 – 3.4%
Network One – 3.2%
Network Eleven – 2.5%
Network Gem – 2.1%
Network ABC News 24 – 1.5%
Network ABC3 – 1.2%
Network SBS2 – 1%
Network NITV – 0.4%
Total audience share
Network 9 – 29.5%
Network 7 – 27.3%
Network 10 – 18.9%
Network ABC – 18.2%
Network SBS – 6.1%
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Guilty pleasure, but that was a highly entertaining episode of the Bachelor. I yelled out “booyah” a few times.
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