The Block Glasshouse again dominated the night with 1.830 million national/1.279 million metro/551,000 regional viewers. The results episode of The X Factor saw a moderate metro performance turned into a solid national effort by strong support from regional viewers. It had 1.720 million national/1.094 million metro/626,000 regional viewers, which made it the most watched program in the regionals.

The good news from last night was the absolute hiding the season finale of Seven’s Winners & Losers final dealt to Nine’s grubby Big Brother and its nasty first eviction of the current series. W&L finished third nationally last night with 1.578 million/993,000 metro/585,000 regional viewers. BB had 978,000 national/717,000 metro/260,000 regional viewers. From 8.40pm to 9.40pm W&L beat BB in metro markets by more than 200,000 viewers. BB had the benefit of The Block as the lead-in and most of its viewers didn’t stick around — more than 800,000. Only 142,000 viewers from The X Factor didn’t hang around for W&L.

Last night’s eviction episode of BB was crude and cheap. The program deserves to go backwards for that. A cynical ploy by producers to generate publicity and attract viewers to what is a slowly dying format in this country (remember the first episode of this series attracted the lowest audience of all the debut episodes of the series broadcast in this country, so it has been on the nose from the start).

And finally, Mad As Hell returns to ABC 1 tonight at 8pm. Apart from The Roast on ABC 2 at 7.30pm, it is the only political/social satire program on TV. Watch! It’s the one program Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, his good mate Tony Abbott, and their mates at the various News Corp papers would like to see dropped by the ABC management, along with Peppa Pig.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (32.8%)
  2. Seven (29.5%)
  3. Ten (16.5%)
  4. ABC (15.9%)
  5. SBS (5.2%)

 

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (22.8%)
  2. Seven (22.2%)
  3. ABC 1 (11.5%)
  4. Ten (10.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

 

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (5.7%)
  2. GO (4.3%)
  3. 7TWO (4.0%)
  4. ONE (3.7%)
  5. 7mate (3.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1.  The Block Glasshouse (Nine) — 1.830 million
  2. The X Factor Results (Seven) — 1.720 million
  3. Winners & Losers (Seven) — 1.578 million
  4. Nine News  – 1.561 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.536 million
  6. Julia Gillard (Nine) — 1.429 million
  7. Seven News — 1.386 million
  8. Nine News  6.30 — 1.140 million
  9. 7 pm ABC 1 News — 1.091 million
  10. Seven News/Today Tonight — 998,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block Glasshouse (Nine) — 1.279 million
  2. Julia Gillard (Nine) — 1.192 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.140 million
  4. The X Factor Results (Seven) — 1.094 million
  5. Nine News — 1.083 million
  6. Seven News — 1.038 million

 

Losers: The Julia Gillard feature was really an interview designed to sell her book. That means sales in regional Australia will be very, very low.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News 6.30 — 1.140 million
  2. Nine News — 1.083 million
  3. Seven News — 1.038 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 998,000
  5. 7 pm ABC 1 News — 738,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC 1) – 657,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 612,000
  8. Foreign Correspondent (ABC 1) — 591,000
  9. The Project 7pm – 527,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 420,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 390,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 282,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) –160,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 1,  87,000 + 50,000 on News 24) — 137,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 160,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 58,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (3.0%)
  2. LifeStyle  (2.4%)
  3. TVHITS!  (2.2%)
  4. UKTV , Fox Classics , Sky News (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Location Location Location (LifeStyle) — 112,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 88,000
  3. AFL:On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 84,000
  4. AFL: Open Mike (Fox Footy) — 61,000
  5. Back Page (Fox Sports 1) — 57,000

 

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