TV Ratings August 27: Nine starts week strong with The Block

Seven

The final AFL Sunday match for 2018 helped push up Seven’s Sunday share in southern markets. However the one-sided clash didn’t contribute as much as it could have perhaps with the channel reporting its lowest Sunday primary channel share since the last Sunday in June.

Seven News ranked #1 at 6pm with 1.17m.

Little Big Shots then did 864,000, which is close to last week’s 883,000.

Matt Doran then reported on a strange encounter he had with a woman known as the catwoman and her much younger fiancé on Sunday Night. The episode did 530,000 after 567,000 last week.

Nine

The much-hyped episode of The Block featuring a reveal of the most expensive bathroom yet on the series helped pushed the audience to 1.29m, easily the biggest audience yet this season as the format began its fourth week on air. Former judge John McGrath returned to the show last night as the judges hammered the bathroom that eventually led to a walkout.

60 Minutes followed on 714,000 after 616,000 a week ago. The program had reports from Tom Steinfort, Allison Langdon and Liz Hayes last night.

TEN

The Sunday Project featured an interview with Jane Fonda in the studio. The first 30 minutes did 242,000, which grew to 372,000 after 7pm.

Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures was on 513,000, well down from 629,000 last week. It launched on 882,000 four weeks ago.

TEN then stayed with Working Dog and its movie from 2000 The Dish, which did 290,000.

ABC

Rake was the channel’s best after the ABC News with the drama on 573,000 after it launched with 715,000 last week.

The final of the four-part UK Grand Designs: House Of The Year did 529,000.

SBS

The 7.30pm doco The Pharaoh In The Suburbs, part of the Treasures Decoded season, did best with 227,000.

The channel then replayed Egypt: What Lies Beneath at 8.30pm to 205,000.