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MAFS tops Wednesday, The Responder huge in catch-up.

MAFS & Gogglebox win Wednesday timeslots, with drama viewers continuing to turn onto catch-up.

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Drama is still scoring the biggest lifts in catch-up viewing. Last night’s episode of The Responder on SBS may have only drawn 60,000 viewers in overnight numbers, but the previous episode shot up by 195% across the week to 330,000.

That compares to Married at First Sight which lifted by 54%, which is still a huge increase in Total TV.

Overnights is still tops for MAFS which was #1 at 954,000 metro viewers last night, more than double 7:30 (493,000), Hard Quiz (477,000), Warnie (445,000) and Ambulance Australia (323,000).

Later Gogglebox led at 434,000 then Mad as Hell (396,000), Under Investigation (362,000) and The Front Bar (316,000).

Nine network won Wednesday at 34% then Seven 26.1%, 10 17.1%, ABC 15.3% and SBS 7.5%.

Nine News was 842,000 / 840,000 for Nine then A Current Affair (699,000) and Hot Seat (369,000 / 239,000). Nine News Late was 196,000. Footy Classified drew 68,000 across the network.

Seven News won at 912,000 / 866,000 for Seven. The Chase was 494,000 / 320,000 then Home & Away (474,000). The Latest scored 319,000.

The Project pulled 365,000 / 237,000 for 10. 10 News First was 307,000 / 219,000. A replay of Would I Lie to You? was 153,000.

ABC News was 598,000. The Drum (143,000), Starstruck (117,000) and QI (98,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (176,000 / 125,000), Michael Mosley’s Health Intervention (106,000), Life on the Outside (90,000), Mastermind (80,000) and The Responder (60,000).

The Coroner on 7TWO led multichannels at 112,000.

Sunrise: 245,000
Today: 225,000
News Breakfast: 104,000 / 64,000

In Total TV numbers last Wednesday were:

The Responder: 330,000
Married at First Sight: 2.01m
Home & Away: 797,000
Mad as Hell: 714,000
Ambulance Australia: 447,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 23 March 2022

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  1. Note that NSW & QLD didn’t see The Front Bar until around midnight – instead they got ‘Star Wars Ep 7. – The Force Awakens’ around 8:50pm after the Warnie tribute

    The Latest figures likely need adjustment – with overruns it came on about 10:05pm in the AFL states, not 9:30pm as originally advertised. The 201,000 viewers in Melbourne were no doubt watching The Front Bar.

    The increase of viewers watching Seven in Melbourne after MAFS was also significant – at least 201k for The Front Bar versus 147k for the earlier Warnie tribute

  2. Ambulance Australia is actually a really lovely show, the ladies that visited the older gentleman in last night’s episode were so sweet with him. But they seem to keep changing from new episodes to repeats so I never know whether to watch it because I’ve caught the same episodes a few times without realising that it was repeats. But then I miss the new ones because its not obvious that it is a new, unaired episode. It is cool when you get the stories that are covered in both the dispatch end and the ambulance officers as well. Most seem to have one or the other but occasionally we get to see both sides.

  3. The Responder is the very best in TV drama and Martin Freeman’s performance is amazingly good. But I do agree with David’s review that you need to watch with closed captions otherwise you do miss a lot of the dialogue.

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