Friday Ratings – Better Homes and Gardens is #1 non news in primetime for overnights, whilst the 2023 Australian Open on Nine wins in Total TV

Analysis for Total TV (27 January, 2023) and Overnight (3 February, 2023) ratings.

TOTAL TV – Total People

Seven

Seven picks up the pace with the Big Bash League Eliminator

#1 Seven News – 1,259 000 (+2%)

#2 Seven News at 6:30 – 1,224 000 (+2%)

#8 The Chase Australia – 702 000 (+3%)

#9 Seven’s Cricket: Big Bash League – The Eliminator – 541 000 (+0%)

#10 The Chase Australia – 5pm – 461 000 (+3%)

#14 Sunrise – 393 000 (+4%)

#15 Seven’s Cricket: Big Bash League – The Eliminator Post Game – 391 000 (+0%)

#17 Seven News at 4:30 – 353 000 (+2%)

#19 Seven News at 4 – 310 000 (+2%)

#23 The Morning Show – 245 000 (+4%)

#25 The Chase – UK – 221 000 (+3%)

#27 Sunrise – Early – 194 000 (+4%)

Nine

The 2023 Australian Open builds again as we approach finals weekend.

#3 Nine News – 945 000 (+6%)

#4 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Night – 838 000 (+10%)

#5 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Night Session 2 – 789 000 (+12%)

#6 Nine News 6:30 – 744 000 (+5%)

#11 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Night Pre Match – 461 000 (+8%)

#16 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Day – 372 000 (+9%)

#20 Today – 284 000 (+8%)

#30 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Late – 185 000 (+13%)

10

10 struggled against the Australian Open, but Friday nights are generally quiet for 10 anyway.

#18 10 News First – 316 000 (+2%)

#21 The Project 7pm – 282 000 (+4%)

#22 The Graham Norton Show – 247 000 (+13%)

#24 The Bold and the Beautiful – 227 000 (+8%)

ABC

Monty Don and Endeavour stay above 400k, keeping ABC competitive

#7 ABC News – 713 000 (+4%)

#12 Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens – 458 000 (+15%)

#13 Endeavour (R) – 418 000 (+14%)

#26 ABC News Breakfast – 199 000 (+5%)

#29 Hard Quiz – 188 000 (+18%)

SBS

#28 Scotland: A Year in the Wild – 194 000 (+11%)

TOTAL TV – 25-54

The 2023 Australian Open Day 12 – Night was #1 with 313 000 fans, a rise of 19%. The Night Session 2 segment was #2 with 308 000, an increase of 21%. Seven’s Cricket: Big Bash League – The Eliminator was #7 with 180 000, an uplift of 1%.


OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Analysis

Seven

Seven News was #1 with wins in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Seven News at 6:30 was #2 with wins in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Better Homes and Gardens returned with a new season and Seven was rewarded with it being the #1 non news program in primetime, sitting at #7 overall with 414 000 viewers. Seven then went with an encore of Australian Idol for 223 000 viewers.

Nine

Nine News was #4 with a win in Sydney. Nine News 6:30 was #3 with wins in Sydney and Brisbane. A Current Affair was #6 overall, but #2 in its slot with 496 000, sitting just 7000 viewers behind ABC News. For the Love of Pets made its debut on Nine with 262 000. Adelaide viewers particularly liked the show with Pets just 1000 viewers behind Better Homes. The premiere of the movie, The Dry had 224 000 hooked into the mystery. Nine aired the late movie, Six Degrees of Separation to 47 000 viewers.

10

The Project 6:30pm had 148 000 viewers. The Project 7pm was on 185 000. The Graham Norton Show was #15 with 239 000 viewers. 10 ran an encore of Taskmaster Australia at 8:30pm with 149 000 watching. A repeat of The Graham Norton Show followed with 101 000. A repeat of Just for Laughs Australia had 77 000 at 10:30pm and then a repeat of Just for Laughs Uncut was watched by 58 000.

ABC

ABC News was #5 but #1 in its slot. The season final of Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens was #9 with 307 000. A repeat of Van De Valk aired at 8:30 and was #12 for the night with 260 000 viewers. ABC aired the first season of The Larkins again with 82 000 viewers. Oddly ABC followed the show with a 15 minute news with 51 000 viewers and then showed a second episode of The Larkins to 49 000.

16-39

1. Nine News 6:30
2. Nine News
3. Seven News at 6:30
4. Seven News
5. The Project 7pm

8. The Graham Norton Show
9. Better Homes and Gardens

25-54

1. Nine News 6:30
2. Nine News
3. Seven News
4. Seven News at 6:30
5. A Current Affair

7. Better Homes and Gardens
9. The Graham Norton Show

Multi Channels

Winner: 7mate (3.4%)

Second: 7two / 10 Bold (3.2%)

7mate was the #1 multi channel with the movie, Deadpool #7 with 87 000 viewers. The movie, I am Number Four had 37 000 viewers.

7two was equal second thanks to Escape to the Country.

10 Bold was equal second thanks to repeats of Bull, NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles.

How the Networks Analysed their Own Performance
Note: N/A means the network has not sent out a report today

NINE

N/A

SEVEN

N/A

TEN

N/A

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