Weekend TV ratings Saturday October 16, 2021
Nine the clear favourite as Freddie Mercury & Queen topple Harry Potter
Overnight TV ratings: Seven
Harry Potter has been a TV ratings winner for Seven recently, however the wizard met his match last night in British rock royalty Queen. After audiences over 300,000 for the previous two Harry Potter movies screened on Saturday nights, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban slipped to 275,000.
Earlier in the day Seven had an audience of 255,000 watching the 2021 running of The Everest from Randwick.
Nine
Nine was a clear Saturday favourite with winning primary and network shares.
Nine was in front from 6pm when Nine News Saturday was a TV ratings champ on 815,000, over 75,000 head of Seven’s 6pm news audience.
A Current Affair Saturday was on 552,000, lower than the previous two weeks when it was close to 600,000.
The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody then was the favourite Saturday movie with 425,000 watching.
Nine followed the movie with from the British rock royalty with the special The Show Must Go ON: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story. That audience was over 300,000 later in the night which pushed up Nine’s share even higher.
10
Share slumped here with just one show in the top 20, 10 News First, on 245,000 which ended at 6pm before primetime share measurement started.
Just missing the top 20 was an encore screening of The Dog House Australia with 182,000.
Ambulance UK then followed with 144,000.
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The channel had the biggest audience at 7.30pm, 453,000 watching Grantchester, but it didn’t stop the channel’s share dropping week-on-week.
Another repeat episode of Shetland followed with 251,000.
SBS
Celebrity Letters and Numbers tumbled week-on-week, down from 174,000 to 137,000.
It was followed by Dambusters with Dan Snow on 138,000.
Saturday TV ratings Metro primetime shares primary/network
ABC 10.7% (16.1%)
Seven 17.1% (29.2%)
Nine 24.1% (34.4%)
10 6.1% (11.9%)
SBS 5.0% (8.3%)
Saturday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people
| 1 | NINE NEWS SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 815,000 |
| 2 | SEVEN NEWS - SAT | Channel 7 | 746,000 |
| 3 | ABC NEWS-SA | ABC TV | 607,000 |
| 4 | A CURRENT AFFAIR -SAT | Channel 9 | 552,000 |
| 5 | GRANTCHESTER-EV | ABC TV | 453,000 |
| 6 | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY | Channel 9 | 425,000 |
| 7 | GETAWAY | Channel 9 | 329,000 |
| 8 | THE SHOW MUST GO ON: THE QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT STORY | Channel 9 | 313,000 |
| 9 | M- HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN | Channel 7 | 275,000 |
| 10 | WEEKEND SUNRISE - SAT | Channel 7 | 262,000 |
| 11 | SEVEN'S HORSE RACING 2021-EVEREST | Channel 7 | 255,000 |
| 12 | SHETLAND RPT | ABC TV | 251,000 |
| 13 | 10 NEWS FIRST SAT | Channel 10 | 245,000 |
| 14 | WEEKEND TODAY - SATURDAY - LATE | Channel 9 | 228,000 |
| 15 | WEEKEND SUNRISE - SAT - LATE | Channel 7 | 222,000 |
| 16 | WEEKEND TODAY - SATURDAY | Channel 9 | 218,000 |
| 17 | THE REPAIR SHOP RPT | ABC TV | 215,000 |
| 18 | BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA'S FRONT LINE (R) | Channel 7 | 213,000 |
| 19 | WEEKEND SUNRISE - SAT - EARLY | Channel 7 | 196,000 |
| 20 | NINE NEWS: FIRST AT FIVE | Channel 9 | 183,000 |
Saturday Sports FTA and STV
Cricket
WBBL
Thunder v Strikers
7mate 124,000
Fox Cricket 76,000 (national)
Renegades v Hurricanes
7mate 80,000
Fox Cricket 47,000 (national)
Horseracing
The Everest Seven 255,000 (metro)
Raceday Saturday Sky Racing 65,000 (national)
