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Idol wraps on a high, but MAFS still holds the crown.

It was a season best for Australian Idol finale, but Married at First Sight was undamaged by the competition.

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Australian Idol crowned its winner last night and finished with its best numbers of the season.

The finale was second in its timeslot averaging 573,000 metro viewers, rising to 596,000 for the announcement of Royston Sagigi-Baira as 2023 winner.

But it was no match for Married at First Sight, unaffected at 924,000 viewers.

A penultimate Australian Survivor was third at 522,000 -but still second in the demos- then Death in Paradise, both from 7:30pm, on 499,000.

Later 60 Minutes drew 569,000 well ahead of Starstruck (258,000), In Our Blood (182,000) and NCIS: Hawaii (155,000).

Nine network won Sunday with 33.6% then Seven 28.9%, 10 15.6%, ABC 14.8% and SBS 7.0%.

Nine News was 762,000 and a late edition at 291,000.

Seven News was #1 at 935,000.

The Sunday Project pulled 229,000 / 165,000 for 10. 10 News First was 148,000 / 121,000. FBI managed 106,000.

ABC News drew 544,000 for ABC. Compass (156,000) and Close to Me (137,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (148,000 / 118,000), Bettany Hughes: Treasures Of Azerbaijan (111,000) amd
Watergate High Crimes In The White House (70,000).

Insiders led multichannels at a high 147,000.

In Total TV numbers last Sunday were:

Married at First Sight: 1.92m
Australian Survivor: 963,000
In Our Blood: 374,000
Death in Paradise: 941,000
Australian Idol: 861,000

OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 26 March 2023

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  1. Poor old Matt on Aus Survivor wins another immunity challenge and gets duped yet again. Big deal getting the extra evict a jury member vote. This season of Survivor has been the worst for me.

  2. Idol won’t be back next year with those type of finale numbers, the cost where astronomical for this franchise. It needed to pull stronger numbers and really should’ve pulled 1 million in overnights for a finale of it had captured a audience.

    It could come back next year but skimmed down on a budget so costs meets revenue for subsequent ratings.

  3. Idol is the biggest flop of the year so far and Seven would be silly to bring it back next year. Not enough viewers want to watch it. What will now be interesting to see is the effect a second singing competition has on The Voice.

  6. Be interesting to see if Australian Idol lifts from 573,000 in Total Numbers next week, as last week it was 552,000 up to the 861,000 above so 309,000 more. In as much as are people now more than fine with watching a show that is the Finale that Crowns a winner after it’s been announced, very curious to find out that one.

    1. Sorry last week it was 467,000 so up by 394,000, the 552,000 was Survivor, that’ll teach me to not just scroll down quickly and only read the first word (Australian in this case), regardless still be interesting.

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