Alone Australia takes the title of SBS’s most successful original commission

With the finale crowning Gina Chick as the show's winner on Wednesday, Alone Australia has now secured its place as SBS’s most watched original production in terms of total consumption, and its most successful original commission.

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Six episodes of Alone Australia have now passed the one million viewer mark, and SBS now holds seven of the top 10 spots in OzTAM 28 Day VPM rankings.

In the two months since the debut of Alone Australia, the first episode of the show has seen a 356% Total TV uplift, driven largely by Australians watching on SBS On Demand. The other nine episodes have also had significant uplifts of between 157% and 294% respectively.

The Total TV audience for episode one now stands at 1.35m (when taking into account both SBS On Demand and 28 Day Timeshift) and remains SBS’s highest rating program for 2023 to date. Episode two to six are now at a Total TV audience of between 1.09m and 1.30m. Episodes 7, 8 and 9 also continue to grow with Total TV audiences of in excess of 853,000 each.

Since the launch of the series two months ago, a quarter of all new accounts on SBS On Demand have watched Alone Australia. Plus, SBS has seen one million consumption hours added so far to the Alone franchise after users have watched the local version.

Commenting on the success of the series, SBS’s director of television, Kathryn Fink said: “Alone Australia has really captured the public imagination. It’s not only SBS’s highest rating series to date in 2023, but also our most successful ever original commission, in terms of total consumption. More than half of the episodes have now had a Total TV audience of more than one million viewers, with much of that being driven by SBS On Demand. The hit series demonstrates the strong shift to the multiplatform on-demand world that television is increasingly moving to.

“This is such a unique, multi-faceted and compelling show, and in an era where the battle for capturing the attention of audiences with new formats is so fierce, SBS is incredibly proud of how Alone Australia is proving to be a standout new hit series for Australian audiences.”

Alone Australia is an A&E Network format and ITV Studios Australia production for SBS.