Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia – Big Bash League on Channel 7 is #1 non news in primetime for overnights and wins in 7 Day consolidated

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Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia Analysis for Total TV Consolidated 7 Day

Total TV Consolidated 7 Total People

Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Consolidated 7 25-54 Total TV

Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Total TV Consolidated 7 16-39

Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Consolidated 7 Grocery Shoppers (18+) Total TV

Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Overnight Ratings

News

Breakfast Television

Morning Shows

Afternoon News

Game Shows

Total People

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

Thursday 8 January 2026 TV Ratings Australia

Seven

Seven News was #3 for the night with a reach audience lead of 231 000 and an average audience lead of 93 000 over 9News. Seven’s Cricket: BBL – Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers was #2 with 2 216 000 (638 000).

Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Pre Game – 1 148 000 (587 000)

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Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Session 1 – 1 920 000 (1 087 000)

Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Lunch – 1 586 000 (984 000)

Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Session 2 – 2 349 000 (1 287 000)

Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Tea – 970 000 (751 000)

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Seven’s Cricket: Fifth Test – The Ashes Day 5 Session 3 – 1 708 000 (497 000)

Sunrise – Early – 518 000 (232 000)

Nine

9News was #5 for the night. A Current Affair was #10 with 1 320 000 (820 000). 2026 United Cup Day 7 – Night was #8 with 1 509 000 (214 000).

Tipping Point (R) – 549 000 (276 000)

2026 Brisbane International Day 2 – Night – 487 000 (93 000)

10

The Graham Norton Show was #24 with 582 000 (191 000). The movie, Rocketman was #21 with 646 000 (135 000).

ABC

ABC News was #12 for the night. 730 was #11 with 1 209 000 (743 000). Grand Designs Transformations was #16 with 952 000 (490 000). Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job was #19 with 650 000 (338 000).

Hard Quiz S5 (R) – 623 000 (320 000)

SBS

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Grocery Shoppers (18+)

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Thursday 8 January 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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