Forever boosts audience but Nine’s share slips as Nine News ratings drop
In the absence of Seven’s Winter, Nine’s US drama Forever boosted its audience to 509,000 after slipping to 419,000 last week in the 8.45pm timeslot.
A second episode of the crime series, airing from 9.45pm was watched by 380,000, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam.
In time-shifted viewing, last week’s audience pulled an extra 172,000 viewers, taking its total audience to 581,000.
Nine’s The Block: Triple Threat also improved their ratings, up to 756,000 metro viewers from last week’s audience of 638,000 however it wasn’t enough to prevent the channel’s share from slipping to 16.6 per cent due to the poor performance of the news hour as Seven leaped ahead with a share of 27.1 per cent.
Nine News at 6pm failed to draw a crowd last night, grabbing 792,000 metro viewers and dropping to 792,000 at 6.30pm. Seven News at 6pm won the night with a metro audience of 966,00, dipping to 909,000 at 6.30pm
Seven’s My Kitchen Rules was easily the most-watched show of the night, pulling a metro audience of 1.602m, a modest increase on last week’s audience of 1.575m. It was the most-watched show across all the demographics while The Block was the second most-watched show across all the demographics.
Meanwhile on Ten in the 7.30pm timeslot, Great Wonders of the Natural World failed to break into the top 20 and was watched by 362,000metro viewers. The poor ratings saw Ten only manage an audience share of 10.3 per cent while the ABC grabbed a share of 13 per cent.
In the 8.30pm timeslot, Ten’s locally made drama Wonderland saw its audience slip from 494,000 last week to 401,000 last night. The Good Wife at 9.30pm was watched by267,000.
On the ABC, 7.30 was watched by 670,000, QI at 8pm grabbed an audience of 597,000 and Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell at 8.30pm was watched by 735,000.
Top 15 Shows:
1 MY KITCHEN RULES-WED Network 7 1,602,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 966,000
3 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 909,000
4 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 863,000
5 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 844,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 798,000
7 NINE NEWS Network 9 795,000
8 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 792,000
9 THE BLOCK TRIPLE THREAT -WED Network 9 756,000
10 SHAUN MICALLEF’S MAD AS HELL-EV Network ABC 735,000
11 7.30-EV Network ABC 670,000
12 JUDITH LUCY IS ALL WOMAN-EV Network ABC 599,000
13 QI RPT Network ABC 597,000
14 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS FIRST AT FIVE Network TEN 528,000
15 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 520,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 27.1%
Network 9 16.6%
Network ABC 13.0%
Network TEN 10.3%
Network 7TWO 5.9%
Network SBS ONE 4.9%
Network GO! 4.4%
Network ELEVEN 3.6%
Network 7mate 3.4%
Network Gem 2.9%
Network ABC2 2.7%
Network ONE 2.3%
Network ABC News 24 1.3%
Network SBS 2 1.1%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 36.4%
Network 9 TTL 23.9%
Network ABC TTL 17.4%
Network TEN TTL 16.2%
Network SBS TTL 6.1%
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Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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I personally think that David Attenborough specials are a Sunday night thing. It is the kind of programme where families can watch together.
People who are not tuning into the Good Wife and Wonderland are missing out, Wonderland in my opinion has gone from so so to good to really good in the last season.
The Good Wife continues top amaze me that people, or the people who have meters d do not tune in, I know of plenty of people who watch the show.
Maybe it is time that people who are keen to rate TV shows have an app on their phone which they tap if they are watching, ot another section if they recorded the show. It would have to be tied in somehow to the TV set so no false figures recorded but hey , it has to be better than 8000 people in five states giving us all our ratings. Last time I looked Hobart was a capital city.
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Earth-shatteringly breakthrough idea Tim.
And I assume you will buy a smartphone for those that don’t have them so that “no false figures (are) (sic) recorded”.
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