{"id":219172,"date":"2025-10-17T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219172\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:28:07","slug":"yes-local-drama-still-tops-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219172\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, local drama still tops entertainment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNine News and A Current Affair lead slots, Summer Bay scores for Seven&#8230;. and a fix finally for Deal or No Deal coding.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Local drama still pulls a crowd in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Home &amp; Away was the top rated entertainment show on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A triple play of episodes was 823,000 \/ 720,000 \/ 699,000 viewers in National TV Audience.<\/p>\n<p>7:30 was 735,000 then RBT (640,000), Gogglebox (563,000) and Grand Designs (553,000).<\/p>\n<p>Later Emergency pulled 514,000 for Nine then Grand Designs NZ (346,000), Jim Jefferies &amp; Friends (270,000), Scandinavia with Simon Reeve (173,000) and The Office Australia (156,000).<\/p>\n<p>Nine won Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News was #1 at 1.23m. A Current Affair was 959,000 with RPA at 361,000.<\/p>\n<p>Seven News drew 1.19m then The Chase (545,000. First Dates UK managed 142,000.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News scored 830,000. Hard Quiz (333,000), Spicks &amp; Specks (148,000) and Mystery Road: Origin (96,000) followed.<\/p>\n<p>10 News drew 284000 for 10. Deal or No Deal -now with correct coding- was 238,000 then 10 News+ (117,000) and Law &amp; Order: SVU (102,000).<\/p>\n<p>On SBS it was SBS World News (192,000 \/ 138,000), 24 Hours in Aldi -hopefully not trapped inside- (107,000), Mastermind (96,000), Blue Lights (90,000).<\/p>\n<p>The Morning Show: 228,000 \/ 139,000<br \/>Today Extra: 180,000 \/ 121,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2025\/10\/thursday-16-october-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday 16 October 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine News and A Current Affair lead slots, Summer Bay scores for Seven&#8230;. and a fix finally for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-219172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}