The Winners: Cougar Town topped the list with 1.347 million at 8.30pm on Seven. Seven News was next with 1.309 million, Today Tonight third with 1.235 million, Nine News with 1.074 million and A Current Affair 4th with 1.053 million. How I Met Your Mother on Seven at 9pm was 6th with 1.039 million and Law And Order SVU averaged 1.011 million for Ten at 8.30pm. Two and a Half Men, the repeat at 7pm on Nine averaged 993,000. The Biggest Loser on Ten at 7.30pm, 882,000.

The Losers: Nine again. Held up in the combined total by a strong night from GO. The adults only 20 to 1 at 8.30pm, 693,000. A fading concept. Getaway, the 830,000 will be a worry if it continues for much longer, even if the program picks up in winter with all those summer holidays. The poor The Biggest Loser beat Getaway last night. The White Room on Seven at 7.30pm, 812,000. Hmmm.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market as did Today Tonight. but Melbourne was close. ACA rose back over a million viewers nationally. The 7pm ABC News averaged 889,000, The 7.30 Report, 714,000. Lateline, 241,000, Lateline Business, 115,000. Ten News, 851,000, Ten’s late News/Sports Tonight 334,000. SBS News at 6.30pm, 160,000, 111,000 for the late edition. Nine’s Nightline, 227,000. 7am Sunrise, 345,000, 7am Today, 315,000.

The Stats:

FAT: Seven won 6pm to midnight All People with a combined overnight share of 29.4% to 28% for Nine, 22.1% for Ten, 15.7% for the ABC and 4.8% for SBS. Seven won everywhere bar Perth where Nine got up because of its digital channel. Seven leads the week with a combined overnight share of 30.3^ to 26.9% for Nine.

Digitally. Nine’s Go averaged 4.1% (Nine’s main channel on 23.9%), from 7TWO with 2.4% (Seven on 27.0%), ABC 2 on 1.8% (ABC 3, 0.6%, ABC 1, 13.2%). Ten’s ONE with 1.2% (Ten on 20.9%), SBS TWO on 0.5% and SBS ONE, 4.3%. The digital channels had a share of 10.6% overall last night. DO leads the week with 3.5% from 7TWO with 3.2%. Seven’s main channel leads the week with 27.2% to Nine with 23.4%.

Pay TV included: Seven with 23.4%, Nine with 22.3%, Pay TV, 17.9%, Ten with 17.6%, the ABC with 12.4% and SBS with 3.8%. The 11 FTA channels had a combined overnight share of 83.4%, Pay and its 100 plus channel had 17.9%.

In regional areas: WIN/NBN won with a combined overnight share 29.4% from Prime/7Qld with 28.4%, Southern Cross (Ten) with 20.3%, the ABC with 15.5% and SBS with 6.4%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Another win for Seven. Courtney Cox is cool. Nine’s repeats of Two and a Half Men at 7pm are struggling against Home and Away. Nine’s Hot Seat, 579,000, beat Deal or No Deal on Seven with 567,000. Yet Seven News beat Nine News by 250,000 nationally and in Sydney and Melbourne where Hot Seat beat Deal or No Deal.

TONIGHT: Cricket on Nine. Seven has Better Homes, then a movie at 8.30pm starring Sandra Bullock. Ten has The Biggest Loser (90 unfortunate minutes!) and then a repeat of The Good Wife for all those who missed it Sunday. The ABC starts Sleuth 101. It will be either funny or dreary. With Hamish Blake and some of those from Spicks and Specks — it has a chance.

SATURDAY: The Winter Games on Nine in the morning and night. If it is raining as heavily as the broadcasts suggest, can you have downhill waterskiing as a replacement sport? Apart from that, it is a very, very dull night. Seven and Ten are full of cheap movies, the ABC has the poor Bed of Roses and then The Bill, the repeat of Blue Murder at 9.15pm might be worth a look again.

SUNDAY: Guess who’s got the cricket? Nine, again. Seven returns Sunday Night at 6.30pm. No 60 Minutes on Nine until after the cricket. Seven also has Bones. Ten has The Good Wife and Talkin’ “Bout Your Generation. Dr Who is back in melodramatic form at 7.30 m the ABC, but the Monty Python story at 8.35pm will be worth watching and recording. And there’s the morning talk programs.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports