The Block appears to have tapped into the dreams of city viewers who have endured two years of rolling lockdowns.
A Tree Change season, the first ever rural reno for the Nine series, launched to a huge 867,000 meter viewers, despite heated competition. That’s up 16% on 2021’s 747,000 premiere and in effect positions Nine well for a stong second half of the year.
It was easily ahead of The Masked Singer‘s 522,000 (rising to 598,000 for the reveal of Ryan Moloney), the return of MKR (503,000) and Spicks & Specks (449,000).
Later 60 minutes was 445,000 then Mystery Road: Origin (263,000).
Commonwealth Games was still big, at 724,000 / 396,000 / 331,000 with 7 mate topping multichannels with a huge 396,000.
Seven network won Sunday with 38.6% then Nine 27.2%, 10 15.0%, ABC 12.9% and SBS 6.3%.
Seven News was #1 at 982,000 viewers.
Nine News drew 807,000 with a late edition at 223,000.
The Sunday Project drew 314,000 / 248,000 for 10. 10 News First was 253,000 / 188,000. NCIS: Hawaii was 169,000 then FBI (93,000).
ABCNews was 572,000 for ABC. compass (164,000) and movies: Suffragette followed.
On SBS it was SBS World News (141,000 / 121,000), Mysteries From The Grave: Titanic (110,000) and Hindenburg: The New Evidence (75,000).
In Total TV numbers last Sunday were:
hunted: 982,000
Beauty & the Geek: 707,000
Mystery Road: Origin: 569,000
NCIS: Hawaii: 355,000
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 7 August 2022