After a few days of breathless lead-up stories about the nasty events on the show, Married At First Sight had another night-topping effort with 1.6 million viewers. That’s up 4000 on the previous Sunday night. 

60 Minutes even got a lift from having MAFS as the lead-in; it recorded 1.25 million viewers. End of night. Turn out the lights please, it’s all over for another week.

Seven’s MKR made the top 10 nationally, but with just 751,000. The ABC was also in there with the end of the 7pm News (1.02 million) and then Grand Designs (761,000). Ten was weak with Dancing With The Stars (605,000). Stateless on the ABC debuted to a reasonable 652,000.

Seven’s The Good Doctor, on the other hand, died on the operating table (559,000). And Insiders received a new low for David Speers’ hosting (549,000).

Network channel share

  1. Nine (34.8%)
  2. Seven (22.6%)
  3. ABC (17.3%)
  4. Ten (16.1%)
  5. SBS (9.3%)

Network main channels

  1. Nine (27.0%)
  2. Seven (14.5%)
  3. ABC (12.8%)
  4. Ten (9.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (6.1%)

Top five digital channels 

  1. GO, 10 Bold (3.6%)
  2. 7mate (3.1%)
  3. 7TWO (2.8%)
  4. ABC Kids/Comedy (2.6%)
  5. 10 Peach (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs

  1. MAFS (Nine) —1.602 million
  2. Seven News — 1.377 million 
  3. 60 Minutes (Nine) —1.254 million
  4. Nine/NBN News   — 1.126 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 1.026 million 
  6. Grand Designs (ABC) — 761,000
  7. MKR (Seven) — 751,000
  8. Stateless (ABC) — 652,000
  9. Dancing With The Stars – Elimination (Ten) — 610,000
  10. Dancing With The Stars (Ten) — 605,000

Metro news and current affairs

  1. Seven News, 60 Minutes (Nine) — 902,000
  2. Nine News — 838,000
  3. 7pm ABC News — 706,000
  4. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 362,000
  5. Ten News First — 239,000
  6. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 212,000
  7. SBS World News  — 161,000

Morning (national) TV

  1. Insiders (ABC. ABC News) — 549,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 407,000
  3. Landline (ABC) —344,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 251,000 
  5. Offsiders (ABC) — 246,000

Top five pay TV programs

  1. AFL: Marsh Series, Richmond v Collingwood (Fox Footy) —7 5,000
  2. NRL:  Trial, Auckland v Wests Tigers  (Fox League) — 58,000
  3. Outsiders (Sky News) — 56,000
  4. Cricket: ICC T20 World Cup, England v West Indies, Innings Break (Fox Cricket) — 55,000
  5. Cricket: ICC T20 World Cup, England v West Indies, (Fox Cricket) — 44,000