Australian Quiz Results, 21–25 September: The Chase, Hot Seat and the Spicks Final
This page fills in as the week goes. All five nights and all five sets of 5pm ratings are now in, and any row marked not confirmed stays that way until a network or a masthead publishes something we can point at.
What's on the quiz shows this week?
| Night (AEST) | The Chase, 5pm | Tipping Point, 4.58pm | Deal or No Deal, 6.30pm | Hot Seat, 7pm | Also on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 21 | New, S17 E9 | New, S3 E119 | Not flagged either way | New, S16 E183 | Celebrity Jackpot 7.30pm; HYBPA ep 21 |
| Tue 22 | New, S17 E10 (aired; result not confirmed) | New (aired) | New (aired) | Repeat (aired) | Hard Quiz repeats, ABC |
| Wed 23 | New, S17 E11 (aired; result not confirmed) | New (aired) | Repeat (aired) | New (aired) | Hard Quiz S11 E18, 8pm, and Spicks and Specks S13 E12 series final, 8.35pm (both aired; winners not confirmed) |
| Thu 24 | Repeat, S16 E36 (aired) | Repeat, S3 E33 (aired) | Repeat (aired) | Repeat (aired) | Hard Quiz and Spicks and Specks repeats, ABC |
| Fri 25 | Repeat, S16 E87 (aired) | Repeat, S3 E28 (aired) | Repeat, S2 E173 (aired) | Repeat, S16 E47 (aired) | Hard Quiz repeat, ABC; NRL preliminary final on Nine from 7pm; Socceroos v Brazil on 10 from 7.30pm |
The gist, with the week done:
- Nine new quiz episodes are filed for the week, and the new ones are front-loaded — The Chase runs Series 17 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then drops to Series 16 repeats.
- Tipping Point opened the week on 857,000 to The Chase's 688,000, a 169,000 gap and its fifth straight measured weeknight at 5pm. Tuesday made it six, 789,000 to 685,000, Wednesday seven, 810,000 to 646,000, and Thursday eight, though only by 46,000.
- Monday gave 10 an unbroken three hours and ten minutes of quiz and panel, from Deal or No Deal at 6.30pm through to Have You Been Paying Attention? at 9.40pm.
- Wednesday is the night that matters: Hard Quiz at 8.00pm and then the Spicks and Specks series final at 8.35pm.
Slot-by-slot times for night one, including the half-hour difference in Adelaide and Darwin, sit in Monday's line-up.
Did anyone beat the Chaser on Monday?
Not confirmed at time of writing. Seven doesn't publish a Final Chase record episode by episode, and nothing has been written up about Series 17 episode 9 anywhere we could cite tonight.
What the guide does settle is that it was a first-run hour rather than a repeat, which is worth knowing before you go looking for it. Every episode lands on 7plus after air. Our Chase viewing guide has the slot and the catch-up window, and the rest of the week's Chase nights are collected on our Chase page.
Who won Have You Been Paying Attention? on Monday?
Open. Ten ran Season 14 episode 21 at 8.40pm, the second-last of a 22-episode season, and the scoreboard isn't something the network puts out in a release.
Episode 22 is already filed for Monday 28 September, so the season doesn't end here. Where to watch it back, and who the regulars are, is in our HYBPA guide.
What happened on Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot?
Still no result on the record, and there's a twist. Ten's 70-minute 7.30pm special drew 261,000 on average, a figure TV Blackbox and TV Central agree on, down from 322,000 for last Monday's. TV Central's overnight table lists Monday's episode as a repeat, which would explain why no fresh result was written up. We haven't seen that label confirmed anywhere else, so treat it as likely rather than settled.
The format itself is on the record: Grant Denyer hosts, superfans hold the cases, and each celebrity plays for up to $200,000 for a charity they nominate. The run so far has taken in Gretel Killeen, the Gogglebox Australia cast, The Wiggles, The Cheap Seats pair and the comedians Denise Scott, Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford. Ten's early-evening block, and how the 6.30 and 7.00 pair normally works, is set out in our Deal and Hot Seat guide.
Which quiz show won Monday night at 5pm?
Tipping Point, comfortably. Nine's show averaged 857,000 nationally against 688,000 for The Chase Australia on Seven, and both figures match across TV Blackbox, TV Central and B&T.
That's a 169,000 gap, wider than any night last week, when the margins ran 104,000, 126,000, 150,000 and 124,000. Tipping Point climbed 63,000 on the previous Monday while The Chase barely moved, down 2,000. Reach tells the same story: 1,545,000 people saw some of Tipping Point, 1,401,000 some of The Chase. Last week's full set is in last week's wrap, and start times for the pair are in what time Tipping Point is on.
| Monday 21 September | National average | Previous Monday |
|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point (Nine) | 857,000 | 794,000 |
| The Chase Australia (Seven) | 688,000 | 690,000 |
| Have You Been Paying Attention? (10) | 533,000 | 687,000 |
| Millionaire Hot Seat (10) | 292,000 | 342,000 |
| Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot (10) | 261,000 | 322,000 |
| Deal or No Deal, 6.30pm (10) | 183,000 | 205,000 |
Previous-Monday figures and the Hot Seat and 6.30pm Deal numbers are TV Blackbox's; we couldn't match those three against a second outlet.
Why did HYBPA drop on Monday?
The Brownlow. Seven's count averaged 1,626,000 from 7.30pm, and Have You Been Paying Attention? fell 154,000 on its previous week to 533,000, though it still reached 831,000 people. Who actually won episode 21 remains not confirmed, and episode 22 follows next Monday; TVmaze has since added an episode 23 for Monday 5 October.
What was new on Tuesday night, and what was a repeat?
The split ran down the middle. Both 5pm shows were first-run — Tipping Point at 4.56pm on Nine and The Chase Australia at 5.00pm on Seven, the second of the three Series 17 hours filed for this week. At 6.30pm 10 has a new Deal or No Deal, but the Millionaire Hot Seat that follows at 7.00pm is not flagged new. ABC runs repeats either side of it: Hard Quiz at 6.30pm and a Spicks and Specks repeat at 7.00pm on ABC Entertains. No Have You Been Paying Attention?, which is a Monday show. Whether anyone beat the Chaser on Tuesday is still not confirmed at time of writing; the slot-by-slot version is in Tuesday's line-up.
Which quiz show won Tuesday night at 5pm?
Tipping Point again, though The Chase closed the gap. Nine's show averaged 789,000 nationally to 685,000 for The Chase Australia, a 104,000 margin, and TV Blackbox and TV Central have the same pair of numbers. Tipping Point slipped 7,000 on the previous Tuesday while The Chase gained 15,000, and TV Central puts The Chase up 11% on the same night last year.
Reach was closer than the averages: 1,459,000 people saw some of Tipping Point and 1,349,000 some of The Chase, a gap of 110,000. That's six measured weeknights in a row for Tipping Point at 5pm, and Tuesday's margin sits right on the smallest of last week's.
| Tuesday 22 September | National average | Previous Tuesday |
|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point (Nine) | 789,000 | 796,000 |
| The Chase Australia (Seven) | 685,000 | 670,000 |
| Hard Quiz, repeats (ABC) | 404,000 | — |
| Millionaire Hot Seat, repeat (10) | 293,000 | 270,000 |
| Deal or No Deal, 6.30pm (10) | 199,000 | 174,000 |
The Hot Seat and Deal figures are TV Blackbox's alone, and the Hard Quiz number is B&T's; we couldn't match those three against a second outlet. Worth noting that a repeat Hot Seat still beat the previous Tuesday by 23,000.
What happened on Wednesday night?
Both ABC shows have now gone to air. Hard Quiz brought back the Battle of the Fuddy Duds at 8.00pm, with four returning retirees on lawn bowls, Francis Bacon, Suzi Quatro and sewage, and Spicks and Specks followed at 8.35pm with its twelfth and final episode of the series, featuring Nicholas Buc, Becca Hatch, Kath Ebbs, Frank Woodley and The Blitz Kids. Who took the Big Brass Mug, and how the Spicks final scored, are not confirmed at time of writing. Both episodes are on ABC iview, and the night's line-up is in Wednesday's quiz shows.
Which quiz show won Wednesday night at 5pm?
Tipping Point, for the seventh measured weeknight running. Nine's show averaged 810,000 nationally against 646,000 for The Chase Australia, and TV Blackbox and TV Central print the same two numbers. The 164,000 margin is the second-widest of the week, just behind Monday's 169,000, after Tuesday had pulled it in to 104,000.
Against the previous Wednesday, Tipping Point was up 3,000 and The Chase down 11,000, on TV Blackbox's comparison. TV Central's reach figures run 1,456,000 for Tipping Point and 1,309,000 for The Chase. The last Series 17 Chase of the week didn't lift it, then, and that's worth keeping in mind with repeats from Thursday.
| Wednesday 23 September | National average | Previous Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point (Nine) | 810,000 | 807,000 |
| The Chase Australia (Seven) | 646,000 | 657,000 |
| Hard Quiz, S11 E18 (ABC) | 548,000 | 563,000 |
| Spicks and Specks, series final (ABC) | 316,000 | 294,000 |
Previous-Wednesday figures are TV Blackbox's. TV Blackbox also has Millionaire Hot Seat on 282,000 and Deal or No Deal on 179,000, but TV Central's table shows far smaller numbers for both, so we're leaving those two out until the outlets line up.
How did the Spicks and Specks final rate?
Better than the week before. The last episode of Series 13 averaged 316,000, which both outlets agree on, up 22,000 on the previous Wednesday, and TV Central says 928,000 people saw at least some of it. That reach is higher than Hard Quiz's 877,000, even though Hard Quiz had the bigger average at 548,000. Who won the Fuddy Duds rematch is still not confirmed; ABC hasn't said, and neither has anyone we can cite.
Was anything new on Thursday night?
No. All seven quiz slots were repeats: Tipping Point ran an old Series 3 episode at 4.56pm, The Chase went back to Series 16 episode 36 at 5.00pm, and 10's Deal or No Deal and Hot Seat were both repeats, with ABC filling its evening with Hard Quiz and Spicks and Specks reruns. There was no result to report, only the ratings, and those are just below. The slot list is in Thursday's line-up.
Which quiz show won Thursday night at 5pm?
Tipping Point, for an eighth measured weeknight in a row, but only just. Nine's show averaged 696,000 nationally against 650,000 for The Chase Australia, and TV Central and B&T print the same pair. The 46,000 margin is the smallest across the two weeks we've tracked; the tightest before it was 104,000, twice.
Both shows were on repeats, so this wasn't The Chase winning viewers with new episodes. Against the previous Thursday, when Tipping Point had 748,000 and The Chase 624,000, Nine's show fell 52,000 and Seven's rose 26,000. Reach was close as well, 1,326,000 for Tipping Point and 1,272,000 for The Chase, a gap of 54,000.
| Thursday 24 September | National average | National reach |
|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point, repeat (Nine) | 696,000 | 1,326,000 |
| The Chase Australia, repeat (Seven) | 650,000 | 1,272,000 |
We haven't found two outlets agreeing on 10's Deal or No Deal and Hot Seat repeats on Thursday, so they're left out. Previous-Thursday figures come from last week's wrap.
How did the quiz week finish?
Quietly. Every quiz slot on Friday was an older episode: Tipping Point ran Series 3 episode 28 at 4.56pm, The Chase went to Series 16 episode 87 at 5.00pm, and 10 had repeats of Deal or No Deal at 6.30pm and Hot Seat at 7.00pm. The ABC filled its early evening with a Series 10 Hard Quiz. After that it was live sport, with Nine's NRL preliminary final from 7.00pm and 10's Socceroos v Brazil from 7.30pm. The slot list is in Friday's line-up.
New episodes return on Monday 28 September, when The Chase picks up Series 17 again and Have You Been Paying Attention? has episode 22, with an episode 23 since listed for Monday 5 October. The full run-down is in our 21–27 September planner. Nine's other Monday, over on the reality side, is in our sister site's Block rundown.
Which quiz show won Friday night at 5pm?
Tipping Point, by the widest margin of the fortnight. TV Central's overnight table has Nine's show on 735,000 nationally and The Chase Australia on 430,000, a gap of 305,000, with both on repeats. Reach was 1,347,000 against 882,000.
That makes nine measured weeknights in a row for Tipping Point at 5pm. The Chase number looks low next to its 650,000 on Thursday, and TV Central gives no reason for the drop. TV Blackbox's Friday tables weren't readable as text and B&T only covered the weekend sport, so this pair rests on one outlet for now.
| Friday 25 September | National average | National reach |
|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point, repeat (Nine) | 735,000 | 1,347,000 |
| The Chase Australia, repeat (Seven) | 430,000 | 882,000 |
| Hard Quiz, Series 10 repeat (ABC) | 353,000 | 650,000 |
Across the five nights, Tipping Point's margins ran 169,000, 104,000, 164,000, 46,000 and 305,000. The new week starts in the 28 September results page.
FAQ
Why are so many cells marked not confirmed?
Because Seven, Nine, Ten and the ABC publish episodes, not outcomes. A winner only becomes citable when a clip, a release or a masthead picks it up, and most weeknight quiz results never do.
Was Monday's Celebrity Jackpot a new episode?
Probably not. TV Central's ratings table tags it as a repeat, and no new result was reported. We'll change this answer if Ten or another outlet says otherwise.
When does this page get updated?
Each weeknight after the east-coast broadcast, and again the next afternoon when the ratings land. All five nights and their ratings are in, so this page is closed out apart from the open results. The URL stays the same.
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, and ABC iview for Hard Quiz and Spicks and Specks.
Sources
- TV Blackbox: Monday VOZ ratings, 21 September 2026
- TV Central: TV ratings, Monday 21 September 2026
- B&T: TV ratings, 21 September 2026
- TV Blackbox: Tuesday VOZ ratings, 22 September 2026
- TV Central: TV ratings, Tuesday 22 September 2026
- B&T: TV ratings, 22 September 2026
- TV Blackbox: Wednesday VOZ ratings, 23 September 2026
- TV Central: TV ratings, Wednesday 23 September 2026
- TV Central: TV ratings, Thursday 24 September 2026
- TV Central: TV ratings, Friday 25 September 2026
- B&T: TV ratings, 24 September 2026
- TV Blackbox: TV Highlights, 2026 week 39
- TVmaze: Hard Quiz, Series 11 episode list
- TVmaze: Spicks and Specks, Series 13 episode list
- TVmaze: Have You Been Paying Attention?, Season 14 episode list
- TV Blackbox: Celebrity Jackpot line-up and charity format
- Australian Quiz Results, 12–16 October: The Chase, Tipping Point and HYBPA
- Australian Quiz Results, 5–9 October: The Chase, Tipping Point and Hard Quiz
- Australian Quiz Results, 28 September–2 October: The Chase, Tipping Point and Hard Quiz
- Who Won on Australia's Quiz Shows This Week? The Chase, Tipping Point, Hot Seat and Hard Quiz, 14–18 September