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Thursday scores for Nine News, Tipping Point, NRL.

Wins for Nine and ABC while a new 10 show hasn't been launched well at all.

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Tipping Point topped entertainment at 825,000 viewers in National TV Audience on Thursday, defeating rival show The Chase on 642,000.

7:30 was 771,000 then Restoration Australia (482,000), Taskmaster Australia (346,000), Dogs Behaving Very Badly (346,000 in key markets), RBT (252,000 in select cities) and The Secret DNA of Us (207,000).

NRL (627,000) outranked AFL (591,000) where they screened.

Seven still won Thursday.

Seven News was 1.32m with Home & Away on 738,000. Britain’s Got Talent was 203,000.

Nine News was #1 at 1.33m with A Current Affair at 1.03m. Emergency managed 241,000.

ABC News drew 828,000. Grand Designs Australia (308,000) and House of Games (288,000) followed.

10 News First scored 369,000 for 10 then The Project (310,000), Deal or No Deal (257,000), The List now in a later slot (160,000) and a Cheap Seats replay (100,000).

On SBS it was SBS World News (199,000 / 154,000), Liberation: D-Day to Berlin (155,000), Sherlock and Daughter (153,000) and Mastermind (89,000).

The Morning Show: 249,000 / 150,000
Today Extra: 200,000 / 126,000

National Total TV: Thursday 8 May 2025

9 Responses

  1. TP ticks every box for success. Great host, easy to watch, gambling and promos that look like they’ve been made by a Hollywood studio.

    If reports today are right, Seven is about to get rid of The Chase. With Tipping Point now a ratings behemoth, it makes sense Seven wants to pull the plug.

    1. i have no idea. I happened to watch an episode the other night and I don’t think i’ve seen a game show so bereft of entertainment value. Even Deal or No Deal, which requires no skill to compete whatsoever, is more entertaining than this.

      1. I would’ve thought Tipping Point has slightly more visual interest than Deal or No Deal whose “guess the amount of money in the briefcases!” format could almost be done as a competition on breakfast radio without losing too much.

        And just for the record, I don’t really have much time for either show. TPA generally only gets viewed by me during its last few moments while waiting for the news to come on.

        Based on last night’s ratings, should Ten have negotiated with the producers of Gogglebox to allow for an extension of its most recent season (even if the next one in Late Winter/Spring had to become slightly shorter as a result) so Federal Election night coverage could be reviewed by the households? I daresay this type of thing probably wouldn’t be in everyone’s tastes, but I at least think it’d be something different from the standard reality TV reviews that have tended to dominate Gogglebox during recent years…

      2. I completely agree, i just don’t get the appeal, but congrats to 9 i suppose. Margaret Pomeranz did a very funny scathing review of it on the Weekly, can’t remember if it was this year or last though, must be the old age lol.

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