The Winners: Seven News was on top again with 1.278 million viewers, Today Tonight was next with 1.275 million and Ten’s repeat of NCIS at 8.30 pm averaged 1.193 million. The Bold And The Beautiful at 6pm in Ten’s experiment, is now down to 467,000 viewers last night and not doing as well as it did when it was at 4.30pm. Ten claimed victory in 16 to 39, 18 to 49 and 25 to 54 in the commercial share battle with Nine and Seven from 6pm to 10.30pm.

The Losers: Party Animals on the ABC at 8.30pm, 381,000, Seven’s repeat of Ghost Whisperer at 9.30pm, 595,000. Eli Stone on Seven at 8.30pm, 788,000. Ugly Betty? Ugly Betty was made to go away and in its place Seven used CoastWatch (815,000) and Wild Vets (785,000). That is at least an improvement on the 500,000 viewers or so Ugly Betty averaged the week before. Rules of Engagement on Ten at 8pm, 696,000. In Plain Sight on Ten at 9.30pm, 725,000. Hustle on the ABC at 9.30pm, 402,000. Prison Break on Seven very late, 328,000.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market as did Today Tonight. Nine News had 902,000 viewers nationally, 376,000 behind Seven and A Current Affair had 929,000 viewers, 344,000 behind TT. The 7pm ABC News and 7.30 Report audiences in Sydney were larger than the Nine News and A Current Affairs audiences in Sydney. The ABC News had 951,000 viewers at 7pm nationally; The 7.30 Report, 859,000. The ABC’s evening news update, 335,000. Ten News averaged 746,000. The Late News/Sports Tonight, 321,000. SBS News at 6.30pm, 158,000, the 9.30pm late edition, 240,000. 7am Sunrise on Seven, 391,000, 7am Today on Nine, 274,000.

The Stats: Nine won 6pm to Midnight All People with a share of 27.7% (30.4%), from Seven with 26.2% (23.5%), Ten with 23.6% (22.8%), the ABC with 16.5% (16.9%) and SBS with 6.0% (6.4%). Nine won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven won Adelaide and Perth. Seven leads the week 29.3% to 24.5% for Nine. In regional areas a win to WIN/NBN with 28.6% from Prime/7Qld with 24.1%, Southern Cross (Ten) with 24.1%, the ABC with 15.2% and SBS with 7.9%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Nothing really to say except that Tuesday nights have gone from being the most engrossing night of TV to being worse than Saturdays, in or out of ratings. What a collection of unwatchable tosh. Although I do like Party Animals because it is sooo bad. It’s like Home And Away meets The Hollowmen. Tonight there’s the Test cricket from Perth on Nine: that could be different. Ten has the repeat of Jamie Oliver at 6.30pm, right up against Nigella on the ABC. Unfair. The ABC has Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers at 8.30pm, which is another classic. Food Safari on SBS at 7.30pm. And that’s it folks.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports.