Have You Been Paying Attention? has once again rode to rescue Ten on Monday nights, even as the more expensive MasterChef Australia stumbles and bumbles its way round viewers’ living rooms.
Like Hard Quiz on the ABC, HYBPA? is cheap, higher effective TV with strong viewer engagement, strong social media follow-through and THE sort of credibility that Millionaire on Nine and The Chase on Seven struggle to gain.
There was a 127,000 turn on to HYBPA? from MasterChef. Usually there’s a turn off from programs from 7.30 to 8.30 as viewers starting thinking about sleep… or something else more entertaining.
Network channel share
- Nine (26.9%)
- Seven (25.9%)
- Ten (23.3)
- ABC (16.1%)
- SBS (7.8%)
Network main channels
- Nine (19.8%)
- Seven (18.4%)
- Ten (16.2%)
- ABC (12.2%)
- SBS ONE (5.0%)
Top 5 digital channels
- 10 Bold (4.0%)
- 7TWO (3.4%)
- 7mate (2.7%)
- 10 Peach (2.6%)
- 9Life (2.3%)
Top 10 national programs
- Seven News — 1.700 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.675 million
- Nine News — 1.298 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.251 million
- Lego Masters (Nine) — 1.080 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.059 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) —1.053 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.025 million
- 7.30 (ABC) — 954,000
- Have You Been Paying Attention? (Ten) — 932,000
Top metro programs
- Seven News — 1.042 million
- Nine News — 1.033 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.028 million
Losers: Big Brother and Masterchef Australia.
Metro news and current affairs
- Seven News — 1.042 million
- Nine News — 1.033 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.028 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 977,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) —769,000
- 7pm ABC News — 699,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 618,000
- Australian Story (ABC) — 563,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 511,000
- Media Watch (ABC) — 399,000
Morning (National) TV
- Sunrise (Seven) — 419,000/235,000
- Today (Nine) — 291,000/201,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 282,000/184,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 219,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 144,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 49,000
Top five pay TV programs
- Mare of Easttown (Fox Showcase) — 74,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy), Credlin (Sky News) — 66,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 65,000
- Alan Jones (Sky News) — 61,000
Surely cooking shows have passed their use by date? I watch SBS food for the programmes that go back to basics (being a senior I’ve gone through most exotic phases of cooking fashion) and for recipes that were considered old fashioned years ago. Like how to bake a sponge properly or easy quick recipes without 12 spices or the latest new hybrid veg, or imported sprinkle from some distant land. Sick of hearing of “layers” of flavours, etc. They may all be there, but covid has certainly changed my way of thinking – basics is good.