Thursday TV Wrap: All Eyes On Gogglebox As It Wins Entertainment
10’s Gogglebox took the entertainment crown – because what’s better than watching television? Watching other people watch the telly – with 706,000 viewers.
Next in entertainment was Seven’s Home And Away with 535,000 – I mean who doesn’t love people having drama with a sea view? Meanwhile, Nine’s RBT had 416,000, viewers as per OzTAM’s metro data.
On top overall was Seven News with 921,000 viewers, followed by Nine News with 891,000 viewers, and ABC’s ABC News with 607,000 – when can we start a petition for Tony Armstrong to feature on all news shows?
10’s Bachelorette hit 390,000 and The Project hit 379,000 – Hard to say where the fashion is better, but both shows always bring the colour and the glam.
Seven’s The Chase snagged 468,000 viewers and Home And Away Late hit 504,000.
Nine’s Paramedics -RPT hit 358,000 viewers and Hot Seat hit 381,000, Tipping Point earned 285,000 viewers.
Meanwhile, ABC earned 386,000 viewers for 7.30 and Bluey snagged 279,000.
SBS’s Coastal Devon & Cornwall With Michael Portillo got 277,000 viewers.
The Seven Network took the crown with a 28.3 per cent share. However, The Nine Network held strong with a. 27.7 per cent share.
Coming in third was 10 with 19.3 per cent of the share, followed closely by ABC Network with 15.7 per cent and SBS Network with 9.0 per cent.
Looking now to OzTAM’s total tv report for Thursday, November fourth, the top-performing program was Seven News with a total audience of 1,493,000 viewers (metro: 921,000 regional: 543,000, BVOD: 29,000).
Next was the News News, with a total audience of 1,231,000 viewers (metro: 889,000 regional: 312,000, BVOD: 28,000), followed by ABC News at 975,000 (metro: 607,000, regional: 344,000, BVOD: 24,000).
And, once again, the show with the highest lift on overnight was Love Island Australia at 130 per cent, bringing it to a total audience of 469,000 (metro: 150,000, regional: 54,000, BVOD: 193,000).
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