The Block drama outranks MKR and Amazing Race returns
High drama in Nine reality series draws a crowd. MKR and Amazing Race Australia do battle.
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High drama hit The Block last night as two contestants walked from the series, citing mental health stress.
For Nine, if not for Jesse and Paige, it proved to be a winner drawing 1.15m in National TV Audience.
That was ahead of 7:30 (812,000), Australian Story (774,000), My Kitchen Rules (757,000) and The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition (699,000).
Later Have You Been Paying Attention? with guest host Grant Denyer led with 794,000 then Four Corners (774,000), Media Watch (692,000) and The Rookie (396,000)
Nine’s Paralympics Closing Ceremony replayed to 158,000 over an extended playout while the Live event averaged 79,000.
Seven News was #1 at a strong 1.37m while Home & Away was second best in entertainment at 872,000. The Chase drew 634,000. SWAT managed 163,000.
Nine News drew 1.21m for Nine then wins for A Current Affair (1.09m) and Tipping Point (646,000).
ABC News averaged 866,000. Hard Quiz (395,000), Q+A (347,000) and Antiques Roadshow (239,000) followed.
The Project managed 332,000 for 10 then 10 News First (306,000), Deal or No Deal (289,000) and Ghosts (271,000).
On SBS it was SBS World News (191,000 / 139,000), Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes (117,000), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (109,000), Mastermind (79,000) and 24 Hours in Emergency (61,000).
There was an upset in breakfast television, but includes Paralympics closing ceremony overrun for Nine.
Sunrise: 433,000
News Breakfast: 251,000
Today: 249,000
National Total TV: Monday 9 September 2024
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13 Responses
Grant Denyer was ok as special guest host and was nice to have Amazing Race Australia Celebrity Edition back.
Working Dog have actually always referred to it as a quiz show, so I guess not out of place. Personally, I see it as a panel show.
Grant was not funny.
I wasnt looking forward to Grant hosting last night but i have to say he was fantastic. He’d be a great successor to Tom when or if he retires. Well done Grant!
Enjoyed having the amazing race back & HYBPA ws hilarious. Grant did so well hosting & David Walliams was great
It’s a shame drama rates on reality shows, as this encourages the producers to focus on this, more rather than the content (in this case building and renovating)!
Yes I know it’s (the Block) deviated away from this for years!
Today Show gets Smashed by Sunrise and now also beaten by ABC Breakfast.. Even The Morning Show beats the Today Show.!
Something is going wrong and needs to be changed, it’s slipping further away now.
I did indicate there were particular circumstances around yesterday’s broadcast. I would look to next few weeks before hitting a panic button.
Yes agree but ever since the Olympics concluded 1 month ago it has been slipping away further down including Weekend Today also worser.!!
Looking at period between Olympics + Para, Sunrise has had a convincing lead. There was a day where it narrowed to 40k. Yesterday was an anomaly. Will keep an eye on it now Paras have ended.
Maybe the host of a national breakfast show should resist doing tacky music videos.
Kudos to Linton Besser and 4 Corners last night for a sensational show on strata management firms and their calculated and morally suspect behaviour in ripping their resident’s off. The forensic reporting deserves an award, and for anyone paying strata fees – an absolute must watch.
Loved TAR last night, glad it’s back and did well. Grant was great on HYBPA last night. Also glad that David gave it back to Ed last night. Looking forward to Robert Irwin hosting next week.