Tuesday TV Wrap: Leadership Spill Sees News Programs Soar

Tuesday TV Wrap: Leadership Spill Sees News Programs Soar

Australia came tantalising close to a new prime minister early yesterday morning and the leadership challenge certainly proved good news for news programming last night.

Of the top seven shows on Tuesday, six were news related, with the ABC’s 7pm bulletin (772,000) beating the likes of Hamish And Andy (699,000) and Survivor (661,000).

Seven’s 6pm bulletin was the most watched show of the night with 1.007 million, while Nine’s bulletin pulled in 910,000.

Nine won the night with 29.8 per cent audience share, Seven had to settle for 25.8 per cent, Ten managed 18.4 per cent, the ABC had 17.8 per cent and SBS pulled 8.2 per cent.

The Block provided plenty of relief from the prospect of Peter Dutton becoming prime minister, pulling 952,000. Nine’s other highlights were ACA (736,000), Hamish And Andy (699,000) and Hot Seat (447,000).

For Seven, Home And Away pulled 668,000, The Chase had 581,000 and 800 Words managed 472,000. Dance Boss can’t end soon enough for network bosses, it posted its worst ever result last night with just 397,000.

Over at Ten, The Project managed 535,000. While the latest in the network’s ‘pilot week’ – the tearjerker Taboo – was disappointing with 277,000. Pointless also remains in the doldrums, with a mere 236,000.

The ABC’s night ran thus: 7pm news (772,000), 7.30 (599,000), Foreign Correspondent (489,000), Catalyst (453,000) and Search For Second Earth (273,000).

One again, it was trains for SBS, its best, Great Indian Railway Journeys, doing well with 364,000.




Please login with linkedin to comment

leadership spill Malcolm Turnbull OzTam

Latest News

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm
  • Media

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm

Sydney Comedy Festival 2024 is live and ready to rumble, showing the best of international and homegrown talent at a host of venues around town. As usual, it’s hot on the heels of its big sister, the giant that is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, picking up some acts as they continue on their own […]

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth
  • Advertising

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth

The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has announced the final epic lineup of local and global marketing powerhouses for RESET for Growth 2024. Lead image: Josh Faulks, chief executive officer, AANA  Back in 2000, a woman with no business experience opened her first juice bar in Adelaide. The idea was brilliantly simple: make healthy […]