TV Ratings October 30: The Block tops Bachelorette & Gruen

Wednesday Week 44 2019

• Nine #1 with just over a week until The Block auctions
• Best of the rest: Bachelorette, Gruen and Motorbike Cops

• Seven News 888,000/872,000
• Nine News 773,000/764,000
• A Current Affair 672,000
• ABC News 577,000
• 7.30 466,000
• The Project 252,000/407,000
• 10 News First 309,000
• The Drum 147,000
• SBS World News 110,000

Breakfast TV

• Sunrise 277,000
• Today 163,000

Seven

Home and Away did 542,000 after previous outings on 624,000 and then 578,000 this week.

Highway Patrol was on 446,000 followed by Motorbike Cops with 487,000.

The Good Doctor did 477,000 after returning last week with 495,000.

Nine

A Current Affair had a night under 700,000 after two nights close to 730,000. Stories included Woolworths botched payroll.

The Block is getting close to the end with just one more week to go. The teams got together for an emotional catchup remembering the good and bad times. The episode was on 804,000 which was still enough to outrate everything on air yesterday apart from Seven News.

An hour of Love Island Australia then did 320,000 which is up slightly on the FTA audiences so far this week.

10

The Project featured Waleed Aly touring around the UK trying to make sense of Brexit. Good luck! Christopher Pyne was on the desk as the 7pm half hour did 407,000.

The Bachelorette had plenty of highlights for the TV recaps with a secret life, a dismissal and a walkout. The episode did 593,000 after 628,000 on Wednesday last week.

Playing For Keeps was on 231,000 after 220,000 a week ago.

The final of BH90210 did just 97,000.

ABC

ABC News and Gruen made the midweek top 10 with both close to 580,000.

Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery was with Bill Bryson and a metro audience of 438,000. That is up from 394,000 last week.

Frayed was on 310,000.

SBS

Britain’s Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson did 196,000.

The final of the four-part Struggle Street was on 249,000.

The series final of The Looming Tower then did 87,000.