{"id":677682,"date":"2026-05-18T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:11:10","slug":"week-20-in-tv-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677682\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 20 in TV ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tHome and Away leads all entertainment for a third week running -and beats Sport. Eurovision boosts SBS.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

For the third week running Seven soap Home & Away topped the week in entertainment -the only show in its category to top the magic million.<\/p>\n

Seven News led the week at 1.6m viewers on Monday.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s State of Origin II led in sport at 980,000 viewers for Nine. This also means Drama outrates Sport for those noticing\u2026<\/p>\n

Eurovision saw SBS lift from an 8.5 share for SBS to 10.1% last week. Despite the lure of Budget Week, ABC dipped slightly.<\/p>\n

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Best brands were:<\/p>\n

Seven:
Seven News: 1.6m (Monday)
Home & Away: 1.03m (Monday)
The 1% Club: 901,000
The Chase: 790,000 (Monday)<\/p>\n

Nine:
Nine News: 1.39m (Sunday)
A Current Affair: 1.03m (Monday)
Women\u2019s State of Origin II: 980,000
The Floor: 965,000 (Sunday)<\/p>\n

ABC:
Budget 2026: The Treasurer\u2019s Speech: 1.29m
7:30 : 1.17m (Tuesday)
ABC News: 1.00m (Tuesday)
Insiders: 779,000 (Tuesday)<\/p>\n

10:
Have You Been Paying Attention?: 815,000
MasterChef Australia: 696,000 (Monday)
The Cheap Seats: 461,000
Millionaire Hot Seat: 370,000 (Monday)<\/p>\n

SBS:
Who Do You Think You Are?: 279,000
Eurovision Song Contest: 269,000 (Saturday)
SBS World News: 228,000 \/ 164,000 (Sun)
Rick Stein\u2019s Australia: 182,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home and Away leads all entertainment for a third week running -and beats Sport. Eurovision boosts SBS. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-677682","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\/677682","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=677682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}