Another easy win for Seven last night in metros and regional markets thanks to My Kitchen Rules, the 6pm news, Home and Away and Seven Year Switch. Nine and Ten turned up but were left behind. MKR had 2.135 million viewers (including 1.462 million in the metros). The 6pm news had 1.405 million, including 1.135 million in the metros, with wins over Nine in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth). Seven Year Switch won the battle of the marriage/voyeur wannabes with 1.367 million national (929,000 metro), to 1.178 million (including 831,000 metro) for Nine’s Married At First Sight. Home and Away had 1.363 million national viewers, including 837,000 in the metros).

ABC TV’s Catalyst stood out with a solid report on drug resistant bugs in hospitals (and elsewhere) and the new approaches to killing them. Genuine science reporting with a broader appeal and deserved more than 881,000 national viewers (587,000 in the metros. Keeping Australia Alive at 8.30pm on ABC also deserved more than 768,000 (497,000 metro) viewers. The reality of modern hospital emergency medicine.

In the regions, MKR again topped the most watched list with 672,000 viewers, followed by Home and Away with 526,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm with 470,000, Seven Year Switch was on 438,000 and Nine News was fifth with 399,000.

In the morning Sunrise and Today shared the honours with 339,000 viewers each. Sunrise won nationally.

If anyone wants to know, the Grand Final of My Kitchen Rules will be held next Tuesday, and House Rules starts the next night (and after Reno Rumble, that’s a big, big test for Seven). Nine meanwhile has killed off plans for a celebrity version of Come Dine With Me, the ITV format that is on Pay TV here. There’s talk it is looking to get a series of The Block up late this year, but the boom (now subsiding) in Melbourne property prices, has priced the network out of the market. It will probably go in 2017, as was planned. Reno Rumble was there on Nine reminding us of the network’s failed start to 2016 — it had 534,000 national viewers, including 362,000 in the metros. The big question for the networks is whether that is a flop confined to Nine and this format (and host Scott Cam), or is it the sign of viewer boredom with the idea of renovation TV?

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (34.4%)
  2. Nine (23.2%)
  3. Ten (19.6%)
  4. ABC (16.6%)
  5. SBS (6.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (26.5%)
  2. Nine (16.8%)
  3. Ten (14.8%)
  4. ABC (11.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.0%)
  2. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  3. 7mate (2.9%)
  4. GO, Gem (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 2.135 million
  2. Seven News — 1.405 million
  3. Nine News — 1.368 million
  4. Seven Year Switch (Seven) — 1.367 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.363 million
  6. Married At First Sight (Nine) — 1.178 million
  7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.157 million
  8. ABC News — 1.116 million
  9. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.101 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.075 million

Top metro programs:

  1. MKR (Seven) — 1.462 million
  2. Seven News — 1.135 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.060 million

Losers: Nine, less so Ten.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.135 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.060 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 969,000
  4. Nine News — 968,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 918,000
  6. ABC News – 730,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 667,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 581,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 517,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 435,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise, (Seven) – 339,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 339,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 134,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, 89,000 + 45,000 on News 24) — 134,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 126,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 78,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.4%)
  2. Nick Jr (1.9%)
  3. TVHITS  (1.8%)
  4. UKTV (1.7%)
  5. LifeStyle , 111 (1.5%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 98,000
  2. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 83,000
  3. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 82,000
  4. AFL: Open Mike (Fox Footy) — 82,000
  5. Back Page (Fox Sports 1) — 73,000

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