Glenn Dyer reports:

The Winners Seven in one of the biggest wins of the year so far. Nine was
sort of solid, but was knocked about by the complete domination of the night by
its rival, which had the second episode of Dancing With The Stars (1.988
million) which trumped all. Seven had the five top programs
again for the second night in a row. After Dancing it was All Saints (1.559
million) in a surprising resurgence, helped no doubt by the big audience for
Dancing as a lead-in. Then came Home and Away (1.532 million) and 120,000 ahead
of Nine’s top show, Temptation. Seven News was 4th with 1.475 million and Today
Tonight was next with 1.46 million. A Current Affair followed Temptation – Nine’s most popular shows – meaning that Nine’s audience peaked between 6.30 and
7.30pm and then slowly eased. The All New Simpsons episode with 1.215 million
was Ten’s best.
The Losers

Ten was down, as was the ABC, SBS and Nine. But when you
have a program that averages more than 1.98 million people for two hours from
7.30pm to 9.30pm and peaks over two million, the opposition find it impossible
to match it. In terms of all people, Ten did badly, but in terms of its target
16 to 39 group, it did well.
News & CA Nine News and ACA were again battered by Seven News and Today
Tonight, especially in Sydney. Nine’s duo won Melbourne, Seven News won Brisbane
but ACA beat TT. In Adelaide and Perth Seven won the news and current affairs
battles. The ABC 7 pm News again finished with a million viewers (1.033 million)
and was the national broadcaster’s most popular program.
The Stats Seven won with a massive 37.3% (Nine like figures from
last year) to Nine with 26.5%, Ten down on 18.7%, the ABC with a normal 13.7%
and SBS with 3.9%. Seven won all markets, including a huge win in Sydney where
it got a 40.8% share to only 24.5% for Nine. Ten said it won the 16 to 39 age
group.
Glenn Dyer’s
comments		 On Monday, as we pointed out yesterday, the Nine Network poked
fun at Seven’s poor effort on Sunday night when it recorded its worst night’s
performance of the year. Well, two nights later and Seven has pulled level in the
race for the week, both on 25.9%. Nine’s jibes have come back to bite them and
tonight will see another battle. Ten will do better than it did last night with
House likely to prove popular. McLeod’s Daughters will do well for Nine. But the
interest will be in the battle between 6pm and 7.30pm between Seven and Nine
News, Today Tonight and A Current Affair and Home and Away and Temptation. Watch
for the ABC to do well with Spicks and Specks, The New Inventors, The Kumars at
No 42, the 7 pm news and The 7.30 Report. The new Survivor starts this Friday at
7.30pm to match the Swans game from Melbourne and whatever the ABC and Seven
put up. It should do well but it is a tired show. The reason it’s on Friday this week is
that it premiers in the US a few hours earlier.