TV Ratings April 16, 2023: Drama on the Farmer Wants A Wife dance floor

• A rollercoaster of emotions and the first elimination on Lego Masters
• Snakes galore and a double goodbye on I'm A Celebrity 

Total TV Ratings, April 9

There were Easter antics on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! with 820,000 watching as the campmates woke up to a visit from the Easter Bunny… and a particularly festive chicken that would drop eggs on the camp the be collected for dinner. Up 32%, the show topped non-news for the night.

On Nine,Tina followed the life and music of Tina Turner for 463,000, lifting 9%.

A repeat of Highway Patrol was up 3% on Seven, speeding up Easter for 580,000. 

Overnight TV Ratings, April 16

Primetime News
Seven News 896,000
Nine News 778,000
ABC News 507,000
10 News First 158,000 (5:00pm)/ 142,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 126,000 (6:30pm)/ 81,000 (7:00pm)

Daily Current Affairs
60 Minutes 320,000
Insiders 396,000
The Project 171,000 (6:30 pm)/ 260,000 (7pm)

Breakfast TV
Sunrise 211,000
Today 174,000
News Breakfast 141,000

Seven has won Sunday night (by 0.1%!) with a primary share of 20.7% and a network share of 28.5%. 7mate has come out on top for multuchannels with a share of 3.2%. 

On Seven’s Farmer Wants A Wife, the farmers and their ladies enjoyed a night of music and dancing at the annual Country Ball. There was drama on the dancefloor as restaurant owner Maddison and nurse Lucie clashed over Farmer Andrew. Things didn’t work out for either of them, as 604,000 watched as Andrew chose Jessie for the next solo date. 

In Sunday AFL, the Giants took on the Hawks from Norwood Oval, with 224,000 watching as the Giants just scraped in a win of 77-75. 

There were highs and lows on Nine’s Lego Masters Grand Masters, with the pairs tasked with creating a Lego rollercoaster that gave the best point of view for the minifigures riding it. 516,000 tuned in as Trent and Kale were the first sent home, despite the sheer size of the Superman bust they created. 60 Minutes told 320,000 the story of Kris Ridgway, a stockbroker at a wealth management firm who confessed to being part of a multi-billion dollar global financial scheme that has impacted the life savings of thousands of families. 

Earlier in the afternoon, the Parramatta Eels hosted the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Commbank Stadium, with 254,000 watching as the Eels took the win 30-4.

On the ABC, Grand Designs followed Colin and Adele as they built a curved glass family home in south Manchester, with 432,000 tuning in as a manpower issue with the contractors threw a spanner in the works. A survivalist was found murdered in his bombproof shelter on Midsomer Murders, with 437,000 joining the team to crack the case. 

On ABC Kids, a brand new episode of Bluey saw 528,000 families gather around the TV as Bingo pretended to be Boss Bluey's new employee – all in the middle of Dad's backyard workout.

On 10, The Project (171,000 6:30pm / 260,000 7pm) asked whether it was fair that homeless people in Darwin are copping fines for sleeping rough when there aren’t enough beds to go around, and interviewed Candice Warner. A double elimination on I’m A Celebrity…. Get Me Out Of Here! saw Anna Polyviou and Bianca Hunt leave the camp. Before saying goodbye, 445,000 watched the Viper Room trial. Dom was essentially buried alive in corn while snakes were dumped on her from above, all while Dicko had his head in another cage with snakes dropped in each minute.

The highest rating non-news show on SBS was Lost Beasts with 115,000.