Despite Barnaby disappointment, Seven narrowly wins Sunday night ratings
The build up to Seven’s Sunday Night episode coupled with the $150,000 interview with former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and partner Vikki Campion, was enough for Seven to win Sunday evening, with a 19.9% main channel share over Nine’s 19.7%.
Seven’s House Rules, which commenced at 7pm and ran in the lead up to the Sunday Night special, achieved 882,000 metro viewers. The result was the highest for House Rules this season and beat Nine’s The Voice and Ten’s Masterchef Australia.
Sunday Night’s audience couldn’t beat the ABC’s 786,000 but the build up was enough to pull Seven over the line
Wow incredible result for the ABC with Mystery Road. Will be interesting to see the iview numbers if people were tempted to stay up and watch finish the series.
Regarding Love Island ‘previous episodes continue to climb’ actually it should read fall not climb, each and every episode is losing viewers.
At a dinner party on Saturday night the ‘Barnaby’ interview was mentioned, not a single person intended to watch it, but everyone would have watched an interview with Barnaby’s wife!
Wow i wonder what Lisa Wilkinson thinks about her move to 10. 428,000 viewers on a Sunday night hardly knocking the people meters over. Today show at 5.30am might regularly get mid to high 300’s. Always reckoned the real reason never came out about her exit from 9 despite all the spin doctors rubbish about blogs etc. Time will tell she looks out of place on a sunday and on fridays just a personal opinion obviously shared by many others based on ratings.
V Campion [Edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]