The Block wins. Nine wins. Nine News also does well as does A Current Affair. End of story. On to tonight for Gruen on the ABC, The Block, the final of The Good Fight on SBS, Doctor Doctor on Nine and of course the second coming of Sophie Monk on Ten (AKA The Bachelorette).

The Block managed 1.76 million nationally and was Number 1; it was also tops in the metros with 1.20 million and second in the regions with 563,000. In the regions Seven News was again top with 568,000, followed by The Block with 563,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 459,000, 800 Words was fourth with 432,000 and Home and Away was fifth with 422,000. 

800 Words solid performance in the regions helped the program nationally — it could only manage 587,000 in the metros. That tells us how far the program has slid in the metros — the regional performance was proportionately far stronger (and that is also what is happening to Home and Away). On Sunday night a very solid audience figure for Little Big Shots boosted its national audience past 1.6 million (1.02 million in the metros and 631,000 in the regions). The question is whether the solid support from regional viewers be enough to convince Seven to return these shows in 2018, or axe them and start again, or makes changes?

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (32.5%)
  2. Seven (26.5%)
  3. Ten (18.5%)
  4. ABC (15.0%)
  5. SBS (7.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (24.3%)
  2. Seven (17.8%)
  3. Ten (12.7%)
  4. ABC (9.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (3.9%)
  2. 7TWO 3.6%)
  3. 7mate (3.4%)
  4. ABC 2, ONE (3.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.768 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.515 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.377 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.330 million
  5. Nine/NBN News — 1.237 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.141 million
  7. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.120 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.095 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.073 million
  10. 800 Words — 1.019 million

Top metro programs:

    1. The Block (Nine) — 1.205 million

Losers: ABC viewers. A boring night.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News (6.30pm) — 980,000
  2. Seven News —947,000
  3. Nine News — 934,000
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 918,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 785,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 729,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 559,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 533,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 440,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 366,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 504,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 372,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 174,000 + 79,000 on News 24) — 253,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 237,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 175,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 114,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 82,000
  2. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 78,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 66,000
  4. Back Page (Fox Sports) — 63,000
  5. Jones & Co (Sky News) — 60,000