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Seven News, ACA, RBT lead on quiet Thursday.

Seven was more competitive with Nine last night but not quite enough to manage a win.

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Only the first week of survey and already Thursdays are looking fairly quiet, but Gogglebox returns in a week while other networks await sport in the mix.

Without a certain reality juggernaut in play, Seven found itself more competitive with Nine last night, but still unable to nab a win, which should come tonight.

RBT turned out to be the top entertainment drawcard at 460,000 metro viewers.

That pipped an extended Home & Away (456,000 / 402,000), 7:30 (422,000), Foreign Correspondent (337,000) and Taskmaster (314,000) which did well in the demos.

Later Paramedics was 382,000 then Grand Designs: House of the Year (291,000), The Best and Worst of Red Faces (249,000)

Nine network won Thursday with 30.5% then Seven 27.7%, ABC 18.7%, 10 15.4% and SBS 7.8%.

Nine News was 720,000 / 691,000 with A Current Affair (591,000) and Hot Seat (313,000 / 208,000).

Seven News was #1 with 819,000 / 805,000 then The Chase (453,000 / 295,000). Mrs Brown’s Boys was 156,000.

ABC News drew 563,000 for ABC then Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World (201,000) and The Drum (132,000).

The Project pulled 248,000 / 159,000 for 10. 10 News First was 244,000 / 156,000.  The Montreal Comedy Festival was 132,000 with Would I Lie to You? replayed at 76,000.

On SBS it was From Paris To Rome With Bettany Hughes (142,000), SBS World News (117,000 / 98,000), The American Presidency with Bill Clinton (61,000) and Mastermind (59,000).

The Adventures of Paddington led multichannels at 112,000.

Today Extra: 115,000 / 86,000
The Morning Show: 101,000 / 61,000

In Total TV numbers last Thursday:

Home & Away: 903,000
Taskmaster: 506,000
Grand Designs: House of the Year: 458,000

OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 16 February 2023

6 Responses

  1. Sad when even RBT beats Home and Away and repeats of Red Faces specials are Seven’s stongest ‘later night’ offering. Great to see Taskmaster doing well and dominating in younger viewers- it’s a hit for Ten. Now they have 7.30 slots relatively sorted and Googlebox returning next week you would hope they could launch something after the stripped shows to hold the audience. US dramas won’t and can’t they get more out of Have you been paying attention and Cheap Seats?

  2. Gave all FTA a miss I’m so over repeats except the ABC, their repeats are handy when they clash with other FTA, so we watched Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Annie Lennox, Bad Company and Rock Legends Americana. All docos I taped on Foxtel so our house was really Rockin for a change on Thursday night.

  3. Dire offerings to view last night, hit the steaming and then later happened to catch on 9Life the first episode of My Lottery Dream Home, technically a repeat as well but one I hadn’t seen, this US version better than the recently screened British version maybe because they have so many different winners.

  4. Gave up on RBT ages ago due to how drawn out it is

    Just checked Foxtel’s epg and theres a repeat of would i lie to you today on the main channel and Monday on peach so including the premiere play out that’s at least 5 times it’s been on

    1. Genius scheduling at 10 to shift a new (yes, they did actually have a ‘new’ show) L&O:SVU to 10:30 to make way for a repeat of Would I Lie To You?
      76,000. And they must wonder, surely, why they have half the audience 7 & 9 can manage, thus maintaining their spot as the 4th network.

  5. Again it is astounding the number of repeats even on the ABC with Joanna Lumley (I did see it recently and enjoyed it). I know Thursday nights are quiet, but it seems TV really only cares about Sun to Wed. I know they still care about their ratings, but showing repeats in the first week of ratings doesn’t bode well for viewers (but the multichannels already have copious amounts of repeats too).
    I am just lucky I have a hard drive and can find and record shows to watch on some multi-channels that I can enjoy at my own leisure.
    I do commend the new shows that were airing outside of the official ratings period

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