Nine won, Seven’s House Rules perked up to 1.592 million/1.036 million metro/ 556,000 regional viewers for a reveal, easily the best so far. But that was for a reveal episode (at the end of a renovation series of episodes). Tonight it’s back to the renos. Will viewers stay with the program, or desert it until the next reveal?

The improvement of around 400,000 viewers from last last week was to be expected, but it should be attracting more than 1.2 million metro viewers (and over 1.6 million national viewers) each night — as The Block is. It is definitely not a renovation version of My Kitchen Rules, even though it is modeled on that hit. If Seven is to keep this one, it has got to get hundreds of thousands of more viewers for each reno episode.

But for Nine, winning is grinning — but not too much. There’s a noticeable hole in the ratings of The Voice. Last night it averaged 1.581 million viewers in metro markets — two weeks ago on Monday, May 7 it averaged 1.962 million -0 on both nights there was no real opposition on the other networks. Last night’s episode is the only one this week, so the audience should have been much higher. It averaged 2.191 million national viewers; on May 7 it averaged 2.716 million. The regional audience has fallen from 754,000 on May 7 to 610,000 last night. That’s still very solid, but it’s no longer a ratings monster.

Nine won Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, but again lost Perth by a big margin. Nine won regional markets narrowly (overall), but the margin was larger in the main channels. Ten was weak — the millions of dollars it is pouring into sport should be spent finding programs loyal fans want to watch in prime time Monday to Friday.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (34.3%)
  2. Seven (28.4%)
  3. ABC (18.1%)
  4. Ten (15.3%)
  5. SBS (3.8%)

Network main channels

  1. Nine (28.8%)
  2. Seven (21.4%)
  3. ABC1 (14.4%)
  4. Ten (9.9%)
  5. SBS  ONE (3.2%)

Top five digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.4%)
  2. GO (3.4%)
  3. Eleven (2.9%)
  4. 7mate (2.6%)
  5. ONE (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Voice  (Nine) – 2.191 million
  2. Seven News — 2.055 million
  3. Nine News — 2.030 million
  4. The Block  (Nine) – 1.726 million
  5. House Rules (Seven) — 1.592 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.516 million
  7. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.491 million
  8. ABC1 News — 1.438 million
  9. Revenge (Seven) –– 1.326 million
  10. Australian Story (ABC1) — 1.292 million

Top metro programs:

  1. The Voice (Nine) — 1.581 million
  2. Nine News — 1.384 million
  3. Seven News — 1.349 million
  4. The Block (Nine) — 1.241 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.176 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.074 million
  7. House Rules (Seven) — 1.036 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.004 million

Losers:  Ten because it’s Monday night and the network hasn’t a clue at all what to do.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.384 million
  2. Seven News — 1.349 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.176 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.074 million
  5. ABC1 News — 985,000
  6. Australian Story (ABC1) — 843,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC1) — 797,000
  8. Four Corners (ABC1) – 773,000
  9. Ten News — 689,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC1) — 663,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 342,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 333,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 44,000 + 28,000 on News 24

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports 1 – 4.5%
  2. Fox 8 – 2.3%
  3. TV1 — 2.2%
  4. LifeStyle – 2.0%
  5. Fox Footy - 2.0%

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Melbourne v Manly (Fox Sports 1) – 329,000
  2. Monday Night With Matty Johns (Fox Sports 1) – 222,000
  3. Game of Thrones (Showcase) – 136,000
  4. AFL:Cricket: 360 (Fox Footy) – 124,000
  5. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) – 116,000

Tonight:  The Block on Nine, Packed To The Rafters on Seven, NCIS on Ten. House Rules on Seven at 7.30pm runs into half an hour of The Block and the first 40 minutes of Celebrity Apprentice (which is appalling). Should a right race to the bottom of TV taste on Nine tonight.

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