{"id":590589,"date":"2026-04-07T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:14:08","slug":"mafs-seven-news-big-on-easter-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590589\/","title":{"rendered":"MAFS, Seven News big on Easter Monday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Monday is traditionally a big night of viewing as most of the nation beds down for the working week, and sport on Monday arvo drives big crowds into most primetime.<\/p>\n<p>This year was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Married at First Sight topped the night at 1.92m viewers, doubling\u00a07:30 (895,000), Australian Idol (882,000), Australian Story (734,000) and Australian Survivor (435,000).<\/p>\n<p>Later Four Corners led with 639,000 then 9-1-1 (385,000), Footy Classified (203,000), Gogglebox rpt and 100% Footy (TBA).<\/p>\n<p>AFL in the arvo was 670,000 with the Stawell Gift at an impressive 385,000.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News was 1.42m then A Current Affair high at 1.32m and Tipping Point (675,000).<\/p>\n<p>Seven News was huge at 1.62m then Home &amp; Away (967,000) and The Chase at 491,000 where it screened. The Agenda Setters\u00a0 and The Agenda Setters: Rugby League are TBA.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News scored 1.05m. Planet America led its slot at 616,000 with Hard Quiz on 404,000. Unusually, Media Watch did not screen\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>10 News pulled 302,000 then Millionaire Hot Seat, Deal or No Deal, 10 News+ and 10 News Late (TBA).<\/p>\n<p>On SBS it was SBS World News, Inside the Tower of London, 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mastermind (TBA).<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise: 426,000<br \/>Today: 291,000<br \/>News Breakfast: 247,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2026\/04\/monday-6-april-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday 6 April 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easter Monday is traditionally a big night of viewing as most of the nation beds down for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-590589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590589","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=590589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}