Who Won on Australia's Quiz Shows This Week? The Chase, Tipping Point, Hot Seat and Hard Quiz, 14–18 September

Update — Friday night, 18 September: The week is done. Thursday's numbers landed on Friday and the Tipping Point: 70 Years of TV special took 756,000, the biggest quiz audience of the week — but Nine still has not published which pair won the $40,000, and Friday itself ran as five repeats, so nothing new came out of it.

Short version:

• No Australian network publishes nightly quiz winners, so the confirmed part of this week is which episodes were new, which were repeats and what the audiences did.
• Two one-offs carried the week: Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot on Monday and Tipping Point: 70 Years of TV on Thursday, which at 756,000 was the week's biggest quiz audience.
• Tipping Point beat The Chase at 5pm on all four measured nights — by 104,000, 126,000, 150,000 and then 124,000 on Thursday.

The week is now closed. A cell got an answer only where two sources agreed, and the rows still marked not confirmed are the ones no network or masthead published.

What was on the quiz shows this week?

Nightly detail, with the state-by-state start times, sits in Monday's line-up, Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's.

Did anyone beat the Chaser this week?

Seven doesn't put out an episode-by-episode record, and no outlet has published one for this week, so the honest answer is that you have to watch. Every episode lands on 7plus after air, which is where the Final Chase results live.

What the guides do show is a week that ran out of new episodes early. Series 17 supplied Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday carried a Series 16 number, and Thursday and Friday are both tagged repeats. The next new one is Monday 21 September, episode 9, as set out in our Chase guide.

Who won Have You Been Paying Attention? on Monday?

Not confirmed at time of writing. Ten's Monday half-hour was episode 20 of a 22-episode season, and it drew 687,000 nationally, ahead of every other quiz slot in the week.

The show puts full episodes on its own YouTube channel, though they run several weeks behind broadcast. The August episode below is the most recent one posted.

What happened on Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot?

Ten gave the format a 70-minute primetime slot at 7.30pm on Monday, with Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford among the guests. The result hasn't been reported anywhere we can cite, so we're leaving it open.

The numbers are public, though, and they're an odd pair: the celebrity hour pulled 322,000 while the regular 6.30pm half-hour managed 205,000 the same night, then slid to 174,000 on Tuesday and 172,000 on Wednesday. Grant Denyer's early-evening block is explained in our Deal and Hot Seat guide.

Who took the Big Brass Mug on Hard Quiz?

Not confirmed. Wednesday's episode was Series 11, episode 17, with experts on F Troop, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Crowded House and eggs, and it was the biggest quiz audience of the ABC's night at 563,000.

Spicks and Specks followed at 8.30pm with Casey Donovan, Jett Blyton, Geraldine Hickey, Colin Lane and Ruby Fields, and took 294,000. Both are on iview now. Neither the ABC's episode pages nor the trade press name winners, which is why this row stays empty until one of them does.

Which quiz show won the week at 5pm?

Tipping Point, four nights out of four. It went 794,000 on Monday, 796,000 on Tuesday, 807,000 on Wednesday and 748,000 on Thursday, while The Chase ran 690,000, 670,000, 657,000 and 624,000. Both slipped on Thursday, but the gap held at 124,000.

Hot Seat's week ran the same shape once the new episodes stopped: 343,000 on Monday, then 270,000, 266,000 and 258,000. The biggest quiz number of the week came in primetime instead — the Tipping Point special on 756,000 average and 1,726,000 national reach, ahead of Monday's Have You Been Paying Attention? on 687,000. Start times for the 5pm pair are in what time Tipping Point is on.

How did the quiz week finish?

Flat. Friday was the thinnest night of the five: The Chase, Tipping Point, Hot Seat, Hard Quiz, Spicks and Specks and Have You Been Paying Attention? were all repeats, so no first-run quiz went to air anywhere. Friday's line-up has the episode numbers slot by slot.

That leaves Thursday's Tipping Point: 70 Years of TV as the week's last real event, with Catriona Rowntree and Jules Lund, Nicky Buckley and Glenn Ridge, and Lisa Chappell and Bridie Carter playing for a share of $40,000 for The Reach Foundation, The Power in You Project and Dolly's Dream. A day later the winning pair still hasn't been published anywhere: Nine's release covered the line-up, the ratings write-ups covered the audience, and no one covered the result, so that row stays open rather than guessed. The episode is sitting on 9Now if you'd rather watch it than read about it. New episodes come back on Monday, and what shifts is set out in our 14–20 September planner; Nine's other big week is on our sister site's Block Kitchen Week wrap.

FAQ

Do the networks publish quiz results?
No. Seven, Nine, Ten and the ABC publish episodes, not outcomes, so a winner is only citable when a clip, a press release or a local paper picks it up.

Where can I watch this week's episodes?
7plus for The Chase, 9Now for Tipping Point, 10Play for Deal or No Deal, Hot Seat and HYBPA, iview for Hard Quiz and Spicks and Specks. More Chase nights are collected on our Chase page.

When is the next new Chase?
Monday 21 September, Series 17 episode 9 at 5pm on Seven, per the IceTV guide.

Sources

• TV Blackbox: Monday VOZ ratings, 14 September
• TV Blackbox: Tuesday VOZ ratings, 15 September
• TV Blackbox: Wednesday VOZ ratings, 16 September
• TV Blackbox: TV highlights, week 38
• TV Blackbox: Tipping Point reunion special line-up
• TV Blackbox: Thursday VOZ ratings, 17 September
• B&T: TV ratings, 17 September 2026
• TVmaze: Hard Quiz episode list, Series 11

By the AU Quiz On Air desk · Updated 10:20 p.m. AEST