Seven’s Home and Away continues to edge up in the ratings
Seven’s resurgent dinner time soap Home and Away edged up to the sixth most watched show of the day on Thursday, marking a strong run over the last month
The show has experienced a steady weekly climb over the last month, becoming the most watched entertainment program last night and placing sixth overall for the first time in more than four weeks.
Home And Away, which showed a slight week-on-week increase from 714,000 metro viewers last Thursday to 733,000 last night, dominated Thursday night’s entertainment offerings and even outrated Ten’s The Bachelor.
The show has remained above the 700,000 metro viewers mark for the last two weeks.
On Thursday two weeks ago, Seven’s Home and Away attracted 669,000 metro viewers and the two weeks prior to that, the show had 702,000 metro viewers and 644,000 metro viewers respectively.
However, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary ratings, Ten’s The Bachelor won across the key advertising demographics, the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s, with an overall metro audience of 726,000.
It beat Seven’s Make You Laugh Out Loud’s 538,000 metro viewers, which ran in the same time slot.
At the same time, Nine’s NRL clash between the Canterbury Bulldogs and the Parramatta Eels, attracted 382,000 viewers across Sydney and Brisbane. Sydney has 235,000 viewers while Brisbane had 147,000.
Nine beat Seven in the 6pm news slot, with 997,000 metro viewers against Seven’s 985,000 viewers.
ABC’s most watched program was its 7pm news bulletin, averaging 722,000 metro viewers while SBS’ best rated show was Great British Railway Journeys, attracting 400,000 metro viewers.