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Viewers think local, act local, on Monday.

Audiences choose Gisborne South and King Island over a race to Morocco on Monday.

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You would think after years of lockdowns, audiences would be itching to become armchair travellers by now, but last night local backdrops were more popular than global.

The Block again won its slot at 789,000 metro viewers followed by Back Roads (538,000), 7:30 (527,000), MKR (484,000) and The Amazing Race Australia (451,000).

Have You Been Paying Attention? won its slot at 565,000 then Four Corners (427,000), Media Watch (418,000), Emergency (373,000) and 911: LoneStar (211,000).

Nine network won Monday with 28.7% then Seven 26.1%, 10 20.0%, ABC 17.8% and SBS 7.3%.

Nine News (880,000 / 871,000) was best for Nine. A Current Affair was a winner at 721,000 then Hot Seat (415,000 / 253,000). Across the network were Footy Classified (110,000) and 100% Footy (60,000).

Seven News was #1 at 955,000 / 949,000. The Chase was 521,000 / 333,000 then Home & Away (475,000). SWAT was 112,000.

The Project drew 382,000 / 222,000 then 10 News First (289,000 / 160,000). Just for Laughs Australia managed 189,000.

ABC News pulled 650,000 for ABC.  The Drum (189,000) and China Tonight (152,000) followed.

On SBS it was DNA Family Secrets (131,000), SBS World News (127,000 / 113,000), 24 Hours in Emergency (97,000), and Saving Lives at Sea (96,000).

Nella the Princess Knight and The Adventures of Paddington tied at 131,000 on multichannels.

Sunrise: 209,000
Today: 190,000
News Breakfast: 107,000 / 63,000

Total TV viewers for last Monday were:

911: Lonestar:  421,000
Media Watch: 628,000
The Block: 1.4m
Emergency: 645,000
HYBPA?: 1.1m
MKR: 884,000

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 29 August 2022

Updated after OzTAM reissued Total TV.

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  1. Watched The Amazing Race Monday night and it proved to be amazingly slow, a common problem with competition/reality shows of late. I used to blame the editors for this but I suspect now it is a case of them being given 20 minutes of footage and being told “Make a two hour episode out of that” hence the need for vast amounts of Coming Up, Previously On and slow motion replays of something shown five times already. They deserve a lot of credit for making anything viewable out of so little footage.

    The specific Amazing Race issue of course is that this is the first episode where there is usually a reasonable amount of footage to paly with for introductions, setting up the rules, etc. That they had so little to work with for a premiere episode indicates future ones may have a paucity of content.

    Somehow The Block manages an episode a week with no new footage at all which is a credit to the gall of the production staff but a source of continuing viewer despair.

  2. Loved the Amazing Race last night, looking forward to tonight’s episode. Morocco looks absolutely stunning, need to add it to my bucket list. Can’t wait for the 2nd group tonight. Also can’t wait for the two groups to actually meet up and see the reactions.

    1. Good to have the show back and interesting mix of contestants too. Will be interesting when the groups meet, hopefully at some point both groups are in the same city but don’t know the others exist and just run into each other, would make them wonder what’s going on …..

      Hoping the two groups also means there won’t be so many non elimination legs this time round too.

      Enjoyable start to the season.

    2. 30mins for a time penalty, what a joke. What happened to a 4 hour time penalty for skipping a task. Seems very unfair to those choosing to do them tasks. I think I could win by taking a time penalty for each and every task most seems to take the contestants much more than 30mins.

  3. Last night’s 4 Corners looked like an audition tape for Sunday Night or 60 Kidnapping Minutes.

    I’ll bet Sally Neighbour would never have approved the story under her watch.

  5. Amazing Race needed a heavy edit, so much wasted time, was a very boring episode that should’ve been cut to 60 minutes. I won’t be returning tonight.

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