The Night Manager lifts SBS, MKR leads Seven’s night.
Ratings: Biggest Loser sees a small rise but has a long way to go. Seven claims the night.
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With Nine playing a staggered schedule due to The Footy Show and no thrilling instalment of Married at First Sight, Wednesday was Seven’s for the taking.
MKR was back to top spot as the only show over the magic million, increasing slightly on last Wednesday to claim 1.14m. Planet Earth II was also up at 684,000 and some good news, of sorts, for TEN with The Biggest Loser: Transformed up from Tuesday’s horror figure to a grim figure of 374,000.
Also up were Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery although The Weekly with Charlie Pickering was down.
Million Dollar Cold Case was down for Seven from 644,000 to 588,000. This is Us was also down for TEN.
The Night Manager drew a crowd for SBS, as denoted by its increased share. Over its double episode it pulled an average of 325,000 viewers.
Seven network easily won Wednesday with 33.4% then Nine 28.3%, TEN 15.7%, ABC 15.1% and SBS 7.4%.
My Kitchen Rules was #1 for Seven with 1.14m then Seven News (966,000 / 922,000), Home and Away (720,000), Million Dollar Cold Case (588,000), The Chase (583,000 / 367,000) and Women Who Kill (366,000).
Nine News (921,000 / 890,000) led for Nine then A Current Affair (795,000), Planet Earth II (684,000), Hot Seat (487,000 / 289,000) and The Footy Show (314,000 in 3 cities).
The Project (529,000 / 324,000) was best for TEN followed by TEN Eyewitness News (487,000), This is Us (386,000), The Biggest Loser: Transformed (374,000) and Family Feud (356,000). Madam Secretary was 174,000.
ABC News (744,000), Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery (550,000), 7:30 (538,000), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (505,000), Walliams and Friend (292,000), Pointless (241,000) and Adam Hills: The Last Leg (208,000) comprised ABC’s night.
On SBS it was The Night Manager (325,000), Digging for Britain’s Secrets (219,000) and SBS World News (134,000). For the record The Feed went to 87,000.
A very lively episode of Neighbours with dire consequence for Toadie topped multichannels at 205,000.
Sunrise: 272,000
Today: 257,000
ABC News Breakfast: 114,000 /
OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 22 March 2017
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18 Responses
I have to admit that The Weekly has been terribly unfunny this year. The last three episodes I don’t think I laughed once. It started out a promising show but I feel like the writers have lost their touch.
I would agree Kirk. For me comedy is always personal. What I like, will not be shared by another, so I rarely criticise the comedic loves and loathes of different people. In the past I have enjoyed the show mainly because it was more insightful and subversive comedy. But lately it is just flat.
I am also not sure having Adam Briggs on each week is a good move. It seems as though he and the writers don’t know what to do with him. I haven’t seen last night’s episode yet, but the week before his segment was very limp.
Completely agree. Been meaning to comment something similar for weeks. I always found Tom and Kitty to be the funniest parts of the show. It used to be relatively funny show with a leftie lean, now it’s almost completely just leftie ranting
Planet Earth was probably the pick of the night, but I cannot watch a quality documentary peppered with advertising and station promos, especially when they appear at the bottom of the screen when the program is actually on. Will view on catch-up! Chose instead to watch Home Delivery on ABC1. What a gem of a show featuring Tim Ferguson who suffers from M.S. A great insight into the life of a lovely guy. Julia Zemiro makes for the perfect host. Then watched The Weekly but I was fairly disappointed.
is it just me or did Grant Denyer try too hard last night in Hard Chat?
Try too hard you say, David? I think he tried to take over the Hard Chat interview.
The key is to let Tom do the punchlines and cop it on the chin, that’s the spirit of the segment. Doesn’t work when you try to outwit him, save maybe for one comeback. Just my 2c!
Turning the tables on Tom works if you’re someone like Kerri-Anne Kennerley, which I really enjoyed watching her give Tom a few black-eyes.
Grant tries to hard in everything…
Julia Z is perfect. Young enough to keep the show light and amusing and old enough to know the guests from their heyday. And she has such warmth and empathy 🙂
Maybe, just maybe, TBL will increase to a (still terminal) 400-500K with MAFS ending next week and MKR off for Easter soon. What a long month it’s going to be. Perfectly ill timed momentum killer for what is still TEN’S biggest property – Masterchef.
I heard on the grapevine that last night’s MKR showed very little of the highly unpopular contestant. That would have added to the numbers.
I think your grapevine has too many grapes and not enough vine… because that contestant was all over the episode yet again last night ?
Still enjoying This is Us.
One of the best shows on TV during the week. The other being Call the Midwife. Both shows guaranteed to get you a little weepy.
I am enjoying it to, but those figures are not good at all 🙁 I hope it isn’t bumped!
Also enjoying it. I think it is safe. TEN doesn’t have much to replace it with and the problems are the lead in not the show.
Same here, it’s become one of my top shows on tv at the moment.