The Winners: Four programs with a million or more viewers. Seven’s ratings reject Outback Wildlife Rescue averaged 1.274 million viewers at 6.30pm, Seven News was next with 1.227 million, Hot Property (with pixilated body bit in a segment on a nudist caravan park on the market), was third with 1.204 million and Nine News was fourth with 1.113 million. Seven’s 7.30pm repeat of the BBC, then ABC program, Seven Wonders of The Industrial World averaged 982,000 people and Nine’s repeat of Two And A Half Men at 7.30pm averaged 962,000. Ten’s movie Die Harder averaged 908,000 and Seven’s last minute 8.30pm movie Someone Like You averaged 905,000 at 8.30pm. The Schools Spectacular averaged 868,000 at 7.30pm for the ABC and was at least new TV.

The Losers: Holby Blue on Seven: 342,000 at 10.35pm, shifted because it’s a dud. Battlefronts on Nine at 6.30pm, 684,000. Big Bang Theory on Nine at 8pm, 840,000. Nine’s movie, a National Lampoon thing from 2003, 543,000. America’s Next Top Model on Ten at 6.30pm, 415,000. Californication on Ten at 11pm, 332,000 (Ten said it won its demos, 25 to 54, 18 to 49 and 16 to 39). Who cares. Girl In A Café was repeated on the ABC at 8.30pm and averaged 686,000, but that still had the luxury of being well acted and of some lingering interest.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market but Melbourne, where Nine won strongly. The 7pm ABC averaged 869,000. Ten News, 669,000. 6.30pm SBS News, 201,000. In the morning, Weekend Sunrise from 8am, 428,000. Sunday Morning News on Nine at 8am, 128,000. We miss Insiders on the ABC, there’s still plenty to talk about.

The Stats: Seven won All People 6pm to midnight with 30.2% (26.2% last week), from Ten with 21.9% (22.9%), Nine with 20.9% (26.0%), the ABC with 20.7% (16.8%) and SBS with 6.2% (8.1%). Seven won every market and also won in regional areas with 29.8% share for Prime/7Qld, with the ABC second with 21.6%. WIN/NBN with 21.4%, Southern Cross (Ten) with 20.5% and SBS on 6.7%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven won last week comfortably and looks on track to win this week, but Pay TV’s audience is finally up and you can understand why. The ABC is no better than Seven, Nine and Ten. Not one new program on those four networks can be identified as being tested for use next year. Seven has a collection of rejects and failures, which emphasises just how well stocked its cupboard is next year. Ten and Nine have nothing to test because they are holding everything until official ratings starts in February, and they can’t really affords to waste an episode in case it bombs and the money invested in it becomes a loss straight away.

SBS is at least continuing with Top Gear, a new series of Food Safari, Inspector Rex in Rome, while Rockwiz finishes this Saturday night. Episodes of Mythbusters on Saturday evenings have been fresh as well. In the past week, SBS’s nightly share has doubled, and that’s excluding Monday nights, when Top Gear skews the numbers.

Tonight: Top Gear, The Dominic Dunne doco on the ABC at 8.30pm. And that’s it. The Ex List is, well ex. Ten brings a repeat of Law And Order Criminal Intent into 8.30pm and plunks the equally dodgy and unwatchable Army Wives at 9.30pm where Ex List was. There’s a Law And Order CI on Thursday night at 9.30pm, so Ten is wasting its repeats at the rate of two a week. That shows how empty its programming vault is.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports.