The Block tops entertainment as Seven wins the week, plus Farmer Wants a Wife launch figures
Nine’s The Block led overall programming on Sunday night, as the network also managed to top overall share for the evening.
The episode aired to 922,000 metro viewers and took out all three key advertising demos. The launch of Farmer Wants a Wife on Seven came next for entertainment, with 576,000 metro viewers tuning in, a significant drop from the program’s 2021 launch to 820,000 metro viewers.
Farmer Will is looking for that special someone to start his family with! 🥰#FarmerAU pic.twitter.com/ctCNRPj90j
— Farmer Wants A Wife (@FarmerAustralia) September 4, 2022
Meanwhile, Seven came out on top for the week ending 3 September with a network share of 32.9% over Nine’s 27.5%%, followed by ABC at 16.2%, while Ten finished the week at 15.6%.
Nine also won the primary channel share for the week, with an 19.4% share ahead of Seven’s 16.9%, and the top multi-channel for the week was 7mate on 4.1%.
In the latest Daily Consolidated Total TV Report for 28 August, The Block on Sunday was the #1 program nationally across linear, with 1.713 million viewers, including 265,000 on BVOD, and an uplift of 27%. The biggest uplift of the week was an episode of Vera on ABC with an uplift of 41% and aired to a total audience of 1.260 million.
Looking to Sunday’s overnights and next in entertainment was Spicks and Specks on ABC, which aired to an average metro audience of 451,000, followed by Savage River on ABC, with 356,000 metro viewers, while Ten’s The Amazing Race saw 315,000 metro viewers tune in.
In sports, Sunday’s NRL game on Nine aired to a metro audience of 223,000.
Meanwhile, as mentioned The Block won overall TV viewing on Sunday night, followed by Nine News with 899,000 metro viewers followed by Seven News with 868,000 metro viewers. ABC News brought in 532,000, and Nine’s 60 Minutes pulled in 428,000 viewers.
As mentioned, Nine won the night, taking an overall network share of 33.2 over Seven’s 27.9%, while ABC had a share of 15.3%, and Ten took a 14.4% share.
Nine also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Sunday was 9GO! with a share of 3.9%.
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