Camera man pans out with unfortunate results: Rumours are still circulating that Channel’s Nine’s answer to The View, The Catch Up is set to be axed any day now. Which begs the question — where will we source our car crash television from without them? Click here for some excruciating interaction between the couch and the studio audience, and watch for the poor unwitting audience member… —Sophie Black

Out of the mouths of babes- Paris on Iraq: In a statement issued through her lawyer, Richard Hutton, Paris Hilton says, “I was shocked to see all the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail…I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.”

Australian media mentions since 3/6 from Media Monitors:

Paris = 9748 broadcast mentions

Iraq = 2426 broadcast mentions. — Sophie Black

Nine’s Qantas news bulletins feeling the pinch? Anyone flying on Qantas “City Flyer” flights last Friday may have found the National Nine News bulletin was more incomprehensible than normal, leading a Crikey reader to wonder whether cost cutting at Nine or Qantas is hurting quality. The bulletin was ropey, to say the least, with some reports delivered in very English voices including references to Paris Hilton’s LA home being worth millions of “pounds”. But worse, the poor presenter, Allison Langdon, should clearly have been home in bed, not in a TV studio – coughing and spluttering her way until half way though when she finally had to stop completely to clear her throat and say sorry! No time to re-record? Or just no one cared enough to fix it up?” — Glenn Dyer

Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners: Sunday night saw Seven win for the first time in weeks because Nine ran dead with a couple of repeats. Seven News was tops with 1.685 million, 60 Minutes was next with 1.535 million followed by Grey’s Anatomy (1.393 million), Nine News (1.373 million), Where Are They Now (1.227 million), Ugly Betty (1.165 million people), the 7pm ABC News (1.103 million), Nine’s repeat of CSI (1.098 million) and CSI Miami (1.044 million). The final ep of The Lost Tribes on Nine at 6.30pm averaged 1.014 million, which means we won’t see the idea again. Ten’s Big Brother Double Eviction at 7.30pm averaged 990,000, which was low. And it’s amazing what a holiday does can do for viewing levels, especially when there’s cool, wet and windy in some markets. Seven News saw its audience leap to 1.832 million people and Today Tonight had 1.816 million. Nine News improved for 1.512 million and third spot and Desperate Housewives was around its recent average with 1.466 million. Nine’s Temptation had a player going for the lot and averaged 1.447 million, its highest this year. 1 vs 100 averaged 1.421 million and A Current Affair finished with 1.397 million, well behind TT. Nine’s What’s Good For You averaged 1.354 million, Home And Away had 1.275 million and The Rich List averaged 1.242 million. Ten News averaged 1.202 million (a recent high thanks to the AFL). Big Brother averaged 1.177 million at 7pm and the Live Nomination, 1.158 million. The 7pm ABC News averaged 1.150 million, Deal or No Deal had 1.119 million, Brothers and Sisters averaged 1.102 million on Seven at 9.30pm, and Nine’s repeat of CSI had 1.063 million. The ABC’s Australian Story had one million viewers.

The Losers: None really, though Big Brother continues to disappoint Ten. The Lost Tribes was a bad idea and poorly executed. Next week Nine returns Backyard Blitz to Sundays at 6.30pm. That’s very odd seeing the program was killed off last November. Has Nine resurrected the program? Or are these old eps which never made it to air? How desperate is Nine? The answer, very. Last night no real losers, just a lot of viewers.

News & CA: On Sunday, Seven News again won nationally and in every market but Adelaide. Seven News even won Sydney on Sunday night, despite the NRL game featuring the Sydney’s Wests Tigers and the Newcastle Knights. Weekend Sunrise had a holiday Sunday audience with 494,000 viewers over two hours. Landline on the ABC at noon averaged 266,000 people, Sunday rose to 246,000. Offsiders was again the most popular of the ABC’s trio of Sunday morning chat shows with 150,000, to 146,000 for Insiders and 138,000 for Inside Business. Ten’s Meet The Press averaged 74,000. Last night’s big audiences for Seven News and TT continued the trend over the past five to six weeks. Seven News won by 320,000 and TT won by a huge 419,000 people. Seven News won everywhere bar Melbourne, TT won all five metro markets. The 7.30 Report averaged 995,000; Lateline 324,000. Ten’s Late News/Sports Tonight 434,000. SBS News had 184,000 at 6.30pm; 186,000 at 9.30pm. 7am Sunrise 370,000; 7am Today, 223,000. You can see it was a holiday Monday in those figures alone.

The Stats: On Sunday, Seven won with 28.4% (27.8% a week earlier) to 27.7% for Nine (31.5%), Ten was third with 22.1% (19.8%), the ABC was on 16.6% (15.7%) and SBS was on 5.3% (5.2%). Seven won Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Nine won Brisbane and Adelaide. In regional areas Nine won through WIN/NBN with a share of 32.0%, from Prime/7Qld with 27.4%, Southern cross (Ten) on 19.9%, the ABC on 14.5% and SBS with 6.2%. Monday night in metro areas and Seven won with 29.2% (30.1% last week), from Nine with 27.6% (29.0%), Ten with 20.3% (19.5%), the ABC with 16.0% (15.2%) and SBS with 6.9% (6.3%). Seven won Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, Nine won Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven leads the week 28.8% to 27.7%.In regional areas another win to Nine with WIN/NBN on 31.3%, Prime/7Qld on 27.8%, Southern Cross (Ten) on 19.5%, the ABC on 15.1% and SBS on 6.2%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Its the second game of the Rugby league State of Origin tomorrow night, so Nine ran dead with repeats of CSI and CSI Miami on Sunday night which gave Seven a bigger than expected winning margin. The night was fairly ho-hum. It had all the hallmarks of a long weekend with some shows attracting lower audiences than a week earlier. And yesterday had all the hallmarks of a holiday Monday with audiences up. Nine’s Fresh at 11.30am averaged 225,00, around 80,000 more than its recent audience levels. Even the boring The Catch-Up hit 169,000. Mornings with Kerri-Anne averaged 215,000. A lot of people watched TV yesterday and last night. Tonight its back to normal with Seven dominating with It Takes Two and All Saints, the ABC has the sleeper hit of 2007, The Choir of Hard Knocks, Nine has repeats and The Nation in its second outing, Ten has BB and new NCIS and Numb3rs.