10 call out the other commercial networks: "Catch us if you can"
The Sunday Project (244,000 6:30pm; 386,000 7pm) remains low for 10, even though the premiere of Hunted Australia (619,000) wins primetime and looks to cement itself as the nation’s big new reality addiction. Beauty and the Geek Australia (476,000) premieres to almost HALF what it did last year…41% down year-on-year and fourth in primetime! The BVOD and catch-up numbers better be worth it for Nine. 60 Minutes (383,000) wins its slot though sits low on past glories. Note: Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs. 7News Spotlight (299,000) also moves into second in the later night behind Nine. A repeat of Murder In The Outback (160,000) wins its slot however that doesn’t continue to the late night for The Blacklist (36,000). The Best of The Best and Worst of Red Faces (592,000) drew a pretty good audience though slides into second behind 10 in primetime.
10's Hunted debuted last night, winning entertainment and nabbing 619000 eyeballs. beating out Nine's Beauty & The Geek launch.
But Sophie Monk’s pure charisma, as always, was a complete delight. Nine’s Beauty and The Greek brought in 476,000 eyeballs – a big shift from last year’s debut that brought in 808,000 viewers. 10’s The Sunday Project brought in 244,000 viewers, and 10 News First brought in 219,000 viewers.
Paramount ANZ SVP content & programming, Daniel Monaghan,” told Mumbrella: “Hunted is a captivating, powerful, and unique show that has excited Australian ...
ABC News brought in 569,000. Bringing in a robust national audience of 884,000, with a peak of 1.04 million viewers. Seven also won the primary channel share, and the top-rating multi-channel on Sunday was 7Mate with a share of 3.6%. Nine also managed to win the primary channel share for the week, with a 24.8% share ahead of Seven’s 17.5%, and the top multi-channel for the week was 7TWO and 7Mate, both on 3.1%. Meanwhile, Seven News was the #1 metro program on Sunday with 912,000 metro viewers followed by Nine News on Sunday with 845,000 metro viewers. Meanwhile, Nine took the week ending 16 July with a network share of 32.8% over Seven’s 25.1%, while Ten finished the week on 17.9% and the ABC with a 14.6% share.
10's new reality series is off and running, as viewers are tempted by something new in the genre.
FBI was 129,000. On SBS it was SBS World News (159,000 / 127,000), Lost World of Angkor Wat (126,000) and Tour de France (110,000 across the network). That was ahead of The Best of The Best & Worst of Red Faces (592,000 from 7pm), Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World (488,000 from 7:40pm) and Beauty & the Geek (476,000 from 7pm).