HD Ratings: Fantastic Beasts Beat Furry Beasts

TVNZ 1’s Dynasties was dethroned on Sunday when it was out-rated by TVNZ 2’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Three’s Married at First Sight Australia.

Fantastic Beasts dominated in the 18-39 demographic and MAFS with 25-54s and household shoppers with kids; both see-sawed in the 18-49 and 18-54 demos.

Overall, Fantastic Beasts averaged 5.2% of 25-54s and 4.3% of 18-49s, compared to MAFS’ 6.0% and 4.4%.

TVNZ 2’s relatively obscure lead-out from Fantastic Beasts, How to be Single, obliterated the competition: TVNZ 1’s season premiere of Victoria and Three’s free-to-air premiere of Ghost in the Shell.

It started midway through both, to average 3.0% of 25-54s and 2.9% of 18-49s.

Victoria could muster only 1.8% and 1.2% respectively of these demos, and Ghost in the Shell, 1.9% and 1.2%.

Meanwhile, dumping SEAL Team for Burma With Simon Reeve failed to improve Prime’s 8.30 ratings: it averaged only 0.2% of 25-54s compared to 0.6% for the previous week’s SEAL Team.

Three’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions dominated Saturday’s FTA ratings, which took a big hit from Sky Sports’ Super Rugby coverage, while the biggest crowdpleasers on Friday were TVNZ 2’s Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

SA2 out-rated Three’s Graham Norton Show in all the core commercial demos and even 7 Days self-destructed opposite M:I, winning only one of its three quarter-hour segments in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos.

Today, MediaWorks reported MAFS had become not only the most watched reality show of 2019 in the 25-54 demos but also the most watched show of last week, attracting an average viewership of 134,900 across Three and Three +1.