Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia – Better Homes and Gardens on Channel 7 is #1 non news in primetime for overnights, whilst Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back on Channel 9 wins in 7 Day consolidated

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SHARES
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Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia Analysis for Total TV Consolidated 7 Day

Total TV Consolidated 7 Total People

Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Consolidated 7 25-54 Total TV

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Total TV Consolidated 7 16-39

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Consolidated 7 Grocery Shoppers (18+) Total TV

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Overnight Ratings

Daily Shares

News

Breakfast Television

Morning Shows

Total People

(Note: Initial numbers are for reach and numbers in brackets are for average audience)

Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Seven

Seven News was #1 for the night with a reach audience lead of 82 000 and an average audience lead of 120 000 over 9News. Better Homes and Gardens was #3 with 1 078 000 (459 000). Ooops I Bought a Pub was #19 with 569 000 (354 000). The movie, The Day After Tomorrow was #9 with 873 000 (200 000).

Seven’s Horse Racing 2026 – 756 000 (136 000)

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Border Security: Australia’s Front Line (R) – 627 000 (322 000)

Weekend Sunrise – Saturday – Late – 613 000 (379 000)

Weekend Sunrise – Saturday – Early – 581 000 (294 000)

Nine

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10

A repeat of The Dog House UK was #30 with 394 000 (191 000). Love It or List It Australia was #26 with 432 000 (224 000).

The Big Bang Theory (R) (10 Comedy) – 411 000 (73 000)

ABC

ABC News was #4 for the night. Death in Paradise was #8 with 880 000 (581 000). Silent Witness was #14 with 674 000 (424 000).

Hard Quiz S8 (R) – 527 000 (270 000)

SBS

2026 Eurovision Song Contest – Semi Final 2 (Evening) was #7 with 937 000 (269 000).

Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia

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Grocery Shoppers (18+)

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Saturday 16 May 2026 TV Ratings Australia

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

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SEVEN

TEN

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