28 October 2026

Love Island Wins Close Ratings Battle With Big Brother

Love Island Australia won a close ratings battle with Big Brother Australia on Tuesday, averaging 460,000 viewers to its rival's 446,000. Just 14,000 viewers separated the two shows.

My Kitchen Rules remained the night's highest-rating reality show, averaging 1.09m for Angus and Simon's second Instant Restaurant. That was almost unchanged from the previous Tuesday's 1.08m.

Seven News topped the night overall with 1.36m, ahead of 9News on 1.16m and ABC News on 900,000. 10 News drew 266,000.

Home and Away averaged 973,000, while A Current Affair drew 941,000. Tipping Point Australia averaged 721,000 and The Chase Australia had 636,000.

Sunrise led breakfast with 447,000, ahead of Today on 258,000 and ABC News Breakfast on 232,000.

Overnight Ratings

Tuesday 27 October 2026

Rank	Program
1	SEVEN NEWS	2,181,000	1,361,000	168,000
2	9NEWS	1,856,000	1,163,000	186,000
3	MY KITCHEN RULES - TUE	1,830,000	1,086,000	224,000
4	HOME AND AWAY	1,430,000	973,000	243,000
5	A CURRENT AFFAIR	1,421,000	941,000	140,000
6	1 EURO HOUSE	1,377,000	554,000	108,000
7	TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA	1,375,000	721,000	113,000
8	THE CHASE AUSTRALIA	1,266,000	636,000	82,000
9	ABC NEWS-EV	1,188,000	900,000	59,000
10	LOVE ISLAND AUSTRALIA -TUE	1,152,000	460,000	309,000
11	7.30-EV	1,121,000	657,000	54,000
12	OFF THE GRID WITH COLIN AND MANU	1,035,000	496,000	84,000
13	SUNRISE	978,000	447,000	64,000
14	BIG BROTHER AUSTRALIA TUE	922,000	446,000	94,000
15	THE STATE OF MAN-EV	781,000	380,000	23,000
16	THE CHEAP SEATS	764,000	427,000	24,000
17	SEVEN NEWS AT 4	674,000	321,000	40,000
18	HARD QUIZ S3 RPT	671,000	353,000	22,000
19	9NEWS AFTERNOON	660,000	358,000	49,000
20	TODAY	645,000	258,000	52,000
21	NEWS BREAKFAST-AM	643,000	232,000	22,000
22	BELIEVE IN MAGIC: THE MOTHER OF ALL CONS-EV	604,000	238,000	11,000
23	THE MORNING SHOW	562,000	238,000	38,000
24	10 NEWS	544,000	266,000	21,000
25	SUNRISE -EARLY	543,000	277,000	44,000
26	ABC NEWS MORNINGS-AM	502,000	100,000	12,000
27	TIPPING POINT UK -RPT	500,000	271,000	30,000
28	MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT	492,000	279,000	28,000
29	10'S LATE NEWS	455,000	177,000	10,000
30	TWO AND A HALF MEN RPT	427,000	71,000	5,000