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First Monday episode for Seven’s Little Big Shots pulls 605,000 as show nears finale

The first Monday night episode of Seven’s Little Big Shots fell short of rivals The Block and Australian Survivor, with a metro audience of 605,000.

Little Big Shots has been running on Seven on Sunday evenings from 7pm since early August, and will conclude this Sunday.

It was the first time Seven aired Little Big Shots on a Monday

Last week, Seven aired new show Take Me Out, which attracted 604,000 metro viewers, placing fourth in its time slot. Take Me Out is now running on Tuesday evenings.

Beating Little Big Shots was Nine’s The Block, with 1.046m metro viewers, according to OzTAM’s preliminary overnight figures, and Ten’s Australian Survivor, which managed 654,000. The Block led the 18-49 and 25-54 key ad demographics.

In the later time slot, Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention dominated, achieving 811,000 metro viewers, placing second across the 18-39 and 25-54 advertising demographics and winning the 16-39 category.

Up against Ten’s game show was Nine’s Doctor Doctor, which had a metro audience of 631,000 – up on last week’s 547,000 – and Seven’s Bancroft, which managed 341,000 metro viewers.

News was dominated by Seven, with 1.110m watching the 6pm bulletin. Seven News was the most-watched show of Monday night. It’s biggest audience came from Melbourne – 305,000. Nine News’ audience was 940,000.

Nine’s A Current Affair, which ran a segment based off The Australian’s podcast, Teacher’s Pet, pulled 845,000 metro viewers. The show, had promoted the fact it was meeting Joanne Curtis, the schoolgirl lover of Chris Dawson, whose wife Lyn Dawson went missing 36 years ago. But the show was criticised for its coverage, which saw ACA following a silent Dawson down the street.

Overall, Nine won the evening with a 21.4% main channel share, beating Seven’s 15.6% and Ten’s 14.3%. ABC and SBS had shares of 13.5% and 4.3% respectively. Total network share also went to Nine – at 29%. Seven Network’s share was 25.8% and Ten’s was 20.3%. The biggest multi-channel was 7mate – with an average share of 4%.

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