Thursday Ratings – Seven’s Home and Away is #1 non news in primetime for overnights, whilst Nine’s Married at First Sight wins in Total TV

Analysis for Total TV (2 February, 2023) and Overnight (9 February, 2023) ratings.

TOTAL TV – Total People

Seven

Seven is powered by Seven News, Home and Away and over 600k for the Big Bash League Challenger.

#2 Seven News – 1,396 000 (+3%)

#3 Seven News at 6:30 – 1,363 000 (+3%)

#5 Home and Away – 965 000 (+26%)

#9 The Chase Australia – 769 000 (+3%)

#12 Seven’s Cricket – Big Bash League: The Challenger – 603 000 (+0%)

#14 The Chase Australia – 5pm – 481 000 (+3%)

#17 Sunrise – 366 000 (+5%)

#22 Seven News at 4:30 – 330 000 (+2%)

#26 Seven News at 4 – 291 000 (+2%)

#29 Seven’s Cricket – Big Bash League: The Challenger Post Game – 249 000 (+0%)

Nine

MAFS holds over 1.7 million for Nine.

#1 Married at First Sight – Thursday – 1,729 000 (+80%)

#4 Nine News – 969 000 (+5%)

#6 Nine News 6:30 – 961 000 (+5%)

#7 A Current Affair – 927 000 (+8%)

#13 Hot Seat – 487 000 (+4%)

#16 Tipping Point – 379 000 (+7%)

#18 Kardashians: The Billion Dollar Dynasty – 359 000 (+26%)

#21 Nine’s Afternoon News – 336 000 (+3%)

#23 Hot Seat – 5pm – 325 000 (+5%)

#25 Today – 302 000 (+7%)

10

Over 600k for the launch of Taskmaster is a great result for 10.

#11 Taskmaster Australia – 621 000 (+22%)

#20 10 News First – 348 000 (+2%)

#24 The Project 7pm – 305 000 (+4%)

#28 The Bold and the Beautiful – 255 000 (+7%)

#30 Tom Gleeson – Lighten Up (R) – 228 000 (+5%)

ABC

With ABC sitting between summer re runs and new content, it was a mixed bag in terms of ratings results.

#8 ABC News – 882 000 (+3%)

#10 730 – 679 000 (+6%)

#15 Grand Designs: House of the Year – 429 000 (+17%)

#19 You Can’t Ask That (R) – 349 000 (+7%)

#27 Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean (R) – 279 000 (+7%)

TOTAL TV – 25-54

Married at First Sight was #1 with 888 000 viewers, a rise of 121%. These results are astonishing, especially when you consider that #2 Taskmaster Australia was second with a result of 337 000 viewers, an upswing of 27%. That is a 400k+ difference between #1 and #2. Home and Away was #3 with 327 000, a lift of 49%.

OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Analysis

Seven

Seven News was #2 with wins in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Seven News at 6:30 was #3 with wins in Adelaide and Perth. Home and Away was #7 with 424 000 viewers. This was the average of the 7pm and 7:30pm episodes. Home and Away – Late was #10 with 384 000 viewers, for the 8pm episode. Seven repeated the special, The Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces for #19 and 223 000 viewers. This was third in the slot behind ABC and Nine. A repeat episode of Mrs. Brown’s Boys aired at 10pm for 114 000 viewers. An encore of The Front Bar: All Sports Edition had an audience of just 50 000 at 10:45pm.

Nine

Nine News was #4 with wins in Sydney and Brisbane. Nine News 6:30 was #3 with wins in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A Current Affair was #5 overall, but #1 in its slot with 552 000. RBT was #8 with 412 000 viewers. The comparisons between RBT and Home and Away are difficult because of the episode coding of Home and Away. Let’s call it a draw! A repeat of Paramedics was #12 and won its timeslot with 328 000 viewers. A repeat of Australia Behind Bars had 163 000 viewers. An interesting choice by Nine considering the network has unaired episodes of Police After Dark and Casualty 24/7 that do well in that slot. Nine also has an episode of Emergency up their sleeve that has not aired in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Nine News Late had 119 000 viewers. Emergency Call aired late night with 88 000 viewers. Another NBC burn off, Council of Dads had 38 000.

10

The Project 6:30pm had 184 000 viewers. The Project 7pm was at 214 000. Taskmaster Australia was #14 with 305 000. For the most part, it was #4 in its slot. However, it was the #1 show last night overall in 16-39 and #4 in 25-54. Special – The Montreal Comedy Festival: Hannah Gatsby and Friend had 140 000 viewers. Law & Order: SVU was moved again to 9:30 where 102 000 tuned into the new episode. SVU had been rating better than the specials at 8:30 so its disappointing to see the show in this slot. After next week’s episode, 10 is taking at least one week off in scheduling new episodes. A repeat of SVU at 10:30 had an audience of 89 000.

ABC

ABC News was #6 for the night, #2 in its slot. 730 was #11 with 374 000. The final in the repeat series of You Can’t Ask That was #18 with 226 000. Foreign Correspondent returns next week. The second of four episodes of Grand Designs: House of the Year was #16 and was #2 in its slot with 247 000. A repeat of Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean had 185 000 viewers.

16-39

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

7. RBT
8. Paramedics (R)
10. Home and Away

25-54

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

7. RBT
8. Paramedics (R)
10. Home and Away

Multi Channels

Winner: 7two (3.6%)

Second: 7mate / 10 Peach (3.3%)

7two was the #1 multi channel last night thanks to Father Brown at #4 with 89 000 and a new episode of Murdoch Mysteries at #12 with 80 000.

7mate was equal second last night with the movie, U.S Marshalls doing well at #17 with 72 000 viewers.

10 Peach was equal second with repeats of Friends, The Big Bang Theory and Seinfeld.

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

NINE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

• The 9Network wins Thursday night with all key demographics and Channel 9 wins Thursday night as No.1 primary channel across all key demographics and Total People.
• RBT wins timeslot across the 5 City and East Coast and in Sydney with Total People and GS + Child.
• ACA wins 7pm timeslot across the 5 City and East Coast and in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide with Total People.
• ACA recorded a Live BVOD Audience of 34,000 (+31% YoY)
• 9News ranks No. 1 program with Total People across the East Coast and in Sydney and Brisbane.
• Nine takes out the top 2 programs live streamed and top 2 program streamed on catch up yesterday against all broadcasters

Today wins breakfast slot in across the East Coast and in Sydney and Brisbane with Total People.

SEVEN

TEN

LAST NIGHT

Overnight ratings Thursday, 9 February 2023.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Taskmaster Australia: #1 show in under 50s and 16 to 39s.
• Taskmaster Australia: #1 in timeslot in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• Taskmaster Australia: Lifts 10’s timeslot 34% compared to the same night in 2022.
• Network 10 & 10: #2 in under 50s and 16 to 39s.

Network 10 (10 + 10 Bold + 10 Peach + 10 Shake):

• #2 network in under 50s and 16 to 39s.
• 10: #2 channel in under 50s and 16 to 39s.
• 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.
• 10 Peach: Up 32% week-on-week in 16 to 39s.

Taskmaster Australia:  

• 426,000 national viewers. Peaked at 531,000 viewers.
• #1 show in under 50s and 16 to 39s.
• #1 entertainment show in 25 to 54s.
• #1 in its timeslot in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
• 34.5% commercial share in 16 to 39s, 32.2% in under 50s and 29% in 25 to 54s.
• Lifts 10’s timeslot 34% compared to the same night in 2022.

The Project 7pm:

• 304,000 national viewers. Peaked at 423,000.
• The Project full hour: Up 10% week-on-week.
• The Project 6.30pm: Up 23% week-on-week.

10 News First:

• 339,000 national viewers. Peaked at 430,000.
• #2 in its timeslot in under 50s and 16 to 39s.
• 10 News First 6pm: Up 45% week-on-week.

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