Nine’s Richie Benaud tribute gets 441,000 viewers while Seven News beats MKR
Nine’s Saturday night programming shuffle to pay tribute to legendary cricket commentator Richie Benaud who died on Friday saw 441,000 metro viewers tune in to the program documenting his life, making it the sixth most watched show of the evening.
In TV last night Seven News managed to draw a larger audience than My Kitchen Rules with 1.319m viewers at 6pm to 1.279m for the reality show at 7.30pm, while Nine’s reality rival The Block: Triple Threat pulled in 1.112m for its room reveal with the rest of the show watched by 1.082m.
While 60 Minutes (1.192m) and Nine News (1.190m) were the third and fourth most watched shows of the night Seven just managed to pip Nine in terms of audience share, grabbing a share of 23.7 per cent to Nine’s 23.4 per cent.
ABC claimed third place with a share of 11.7 per cent as Ten slipped below double digits with a share of 9.4 per cent.
Ten’s 7.30pm offering of Shark Tank was watched by 527,000 metro viewers just beating the ABC’s Inside the Commons, which aired from 7.40pm, which pulled in 521,000 metro viewers.
In the 8.30pm timeslot Seven’s Sunday Night, watched by 785,000 viewers, was out-rated by Nine’s 60 Minutes which grabbed a metro audience of 1.192m.
The ABC’s latest BBC import Poldark, airing from 8.40pm, thumped Ten’s NCIS: New Orleans, with 649,000 viewers and only 342,000 tuning into NCIS.
Nine’s pilot episode of Stalker at 9.30pm was watched by 577,000, out-rating Seven’s offering of an episode of Castle which had 471,000.
On Ten, Empire crashed with an audience of 120,000 while the ABC’s Fortitude was watched by 324,000.
In news, Seven News won the night with a metro audience of 1.319m while Nine News settled for an audience of 1.190m.
Top 15 Shows:
1 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Network 7 1,319,000
2 MY KITCHEN RULES-SUN Network 7 1,279,000
3 60 MINUTES Network 9 1,192,000
4 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Network 9 1,190,000
5 THE BLOCK TRIPLE THREAT – ROOM REVEAL Network 9 1,112,000
6 THE BLOCK TRIPLE THREAT -SUN Network 9 1,082,000
7 ABC NEWS SUNDAY-EV Network ABC 845,000
8 SUNDAY NIGHT Network 7 785,000
9 POLDARK-EV Network ABC 649,000
10 STALKER -SUN Network 9 577,000
11 MODERN FAMILY EP 2 Network TEN 549,000
12 SHARK TANK Network TEN 527,000
13 INSIDE THE COMMONS-EV Network ABC 521,000
14 SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL Network 7 520,000
15 MODERN FAMILY Network TEN 515,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 23.7%
Network 9 23.4%
Network ABC 11.7%
Network TEN 9.4%
Network SBS ONE 5.1%
Network 7mate 4.8%
Network GO! 4.5%
Network 7TWO 3.8%
Network ELEVEN 3.0%
Network ONE 2.9%
Network ABC2 2.4%
Network Gem 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.3%
Network SBS 2 1.1%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 32.3%
Network 9 TTL 30.0%
Network ABC TTL 16.1%
Network TEN TTL 15.3%
Network SBS TTL 6.3%
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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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