MAFS tops the night, while The Cube increases metro viewership
Married at First Sight was the most watched show across the five capital cities last night, with the dramatic dinner party episode securing 969,000 metro viewers, topping the key advertising demographics, and delivering Nine a winning 33.3% network share.
In the same 7:30pm time slot, Ten’s The Cube grew its metro audience week-on-week, jumping to 402,000 after it launched to 567,000 but dropped to 351,000 last week.
Last night’s dinner party episode
Seven aired two episodes of Border Security to 311,000 metro viewers, and followed it up with The Pembrokeshire Murders at 8:30pm, which had 301,000. The second episode of Nine’s new drama series, Amazing Grace, ran after MAFS at 9pm and fell to 420,000 metro viewers after premiering last week to 504,000.
At the top of the metro table, behind MAFS, Seven News secured 889,000 capital city viewers, followed by Nine News at 6:30 (888,000), Seven News at 6:30 (878,000), and Nine News (864,000). Nationally, Seven News’ 6pm and 6:30 slots led the pack above 1.3 million viewers each, followed by MAFS on 1.287 million.
The ABC’s Wednesday night programming included ABC News on 652,000 metro viewers, Hard Quiz on 629,000, 7:30 on 570,000, and The Weekly With Charlie Pickering on 510,000. Often, that slate is enough to edge ahead of Ten on a network share basis, but last night the ABC fell just short on 17.2% to Ten’s 17.6%. However, the ABC’s 12.6% channel share was higher than Channel Ten’s 10.1% – Ten’s network share was boosted with another strong multi-channel performance from 10 Bold, on 3.9%.
Seven’s network share was 24.1%, sandwiched between Nine and Ten, while SBS sat on 7.8%.
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Brittney Rigby was Mumbrella's deputy managing editor - news and analysis. She left Mumbrella in April 2021.
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