TV Ratings April 4: AFL and Gogglebox are on top

Thursday: Week 14 2019

• Crows can’t escape Cats: Seven picks up second win
• Gogglebox #1 entertainment show and 10’s best

• Seven News 884,000/837,000
• Nine News 853,000/861,000
• A Current Affair 548,000
• ABC News 568,000
• 7.30 393,000
• The Project 207,000/394,000
• 10 News First 357,000
• SBS World News 115,000

Breakfast TV

• Sunrise 280,000
• Today 188,000

Seven

Seven has recorded a second successive victory this week and should have enough momentum to win the week.

After three nights over 700,000 this week, Home And Away was on 554,000 screening in four markets (no Adelaide).

The AFL then had a strong Thursday audience with 675,000 after 635,000 last week. The Cats win over the Crows was easily the #1 show in Melbourne with 387,000 and #1 in Adelaide with 171,000.

Nine

A Current Affair went into four markets only for the last Thursday this year ahead of the end of daylight saving this weekend. The audience was 548,000.

The NRL Thursday night match saw the Roosters easily account for the Broncos with 448,000 watching after 486,000 on Thursday last week.

10

Gogglebox was easily the channel’s Thursday best again with 579,000 after 585,000 a week ago. It ranked #1 18-49 for the night.

Earlier The Project featured Dave O’Neil with 394,000 after 7pm.

A screening of the 2018 Montreal Comedy Festival at 7.30pm did 302,000.

ABC

Bill Shorten’s Budget Reply speech went out at 7.30pm with 412,000.

That meant 7.30 went to air at 8pm with 393,000.

Escape From The City was then back in the schedule with another trip to Orange being seen by 329,000.

SBS

The biggest metro audience was at 7.30pm for Splendour and Misery: The Last Tsarinas on 166,000.

The Thursday night drama Project Blue Book had 163,000 watching two episodes.