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MAFS & Survivor still dominate Idol on Monday

Nine and 10 entertainment shows lead the way in Total People and Demos, but Seven rules in News.

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Nine had another winning Monday, winning timeslots from 7pm onwards.

Married at First Sight led entertainment at 843,000 metro viewers.

That was ahead of Australian Survivor (505,000),  7:30 (458,000), Australian Idol (439,000) and Australian Story (391,000).

Later Big Miracles wrapped with 363,000 then Media Watch (343,000), Four Corners (324,000),  Would I Lie to You? (233,000) and Starstruck (188,000).

Nine network won Monday with 32.1% then Seven 27.0%, 10 17.1%, ABC 16.6% and SBS 7.2%.

Nine News locked onto 752,000 / 752,000 for Nine. A Current Affair won at 700,000 then Hot Seat (388,000 / 242,000) and Nine News Late (166,000). Across the network were Footy Classified (89,000) and 100% Footy (50,000).

Seven News was #1 at 913,000 / 908,000.  Next were The Chase (508,000 / 317,000) and Home & Away (491,000). Australia: Now & Then was 90,000.

The Project was 291,000 / 171,000 for 10. 10 News First (229,000 / 136,000), Ghosts  (106,000) and The Montreal Comedy Festival (58,000) followed.

ABC News (562,000) was best for ABC. Q+A drew 214,000 then The Drum (158,000).

On SBS it was SBS World News (119,000 / 94,000), Britain by Beach (109,000), South Korea With Alexander Armstrong (77,000), and Mastermind (68,000).

Bluey led multichannels at 123,000.

Sunrise: 223,000
Today: 214,000
News Breakfast: 91,000 / 56,000

In Total TV numbers last Monday were

Married at First Sight: 1.84m
Australian Survivor: 940,000
Big Miracles: 621,000
Home & Away: 969,000
Australian Idol: 804,000
Media Watch: 761,000

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 20 March 2023

6 Responses

  1. While sevens lead in the news hour is more than blip now given its consistent wins so far this year, it should be noted it is nine shedding viewers rather than seven increasing. The 6-7 news pie is shrinking for FTA…..as for Idol, I have watched and think it’s more than decent but hard to see seven renewing for 2024 on these numbers. Yes, extremely tough completion with MAFS and surviver and that could explain poor overnight numbers but 7 day numbers of 800k hard to justify what I am guessing is an expensive show.

  2. Said to the wife “why on earth do you bother with MAFS? It’s aimed at the lowest common denominator, it glorifies back-stabbing and abusive relationships and the producers make up the storylines as they film it!”.
    She replied “you once told me how much you enjoyed professional wrestling at the Sydney Stadium with Mark Lewin, Tex McKenzie, Spiros Arion and Domenic deNucci taking on Killer Kowalski, Ray Stevens, Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy.”
    Fair point.

  3. Hot Seat is a weak link in Nine’s lineup and needs to be rested or they’ll never topple Seven in the news hour. I don’t know why Nine won’t try an Australian version of Tipping Point at 5 instead, get McGuire to host it if they’re worried about him being out of work.

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