House Rules showed a small flutter of life with its best weeknight performance of the current season — 1.20 million viewers nationally. I wish you could say that about the Talking About Your Generation — the Ten program hosted by Shaun Micallef which turned up on Nine last night and still looking lost and searching for a reason to be on air. It’s return averaged 969,000 viewers over the hour and a quarter. The big question is will they all return next week. The answer is: nope. It is not new and improved from its time on Ten. Have You Been Paying Attention on Ten towelled it (1.07 million).

So that helped Nine win the night in the main channels and a couple of demos, while Seven won total people. Ten won the 18 to 49s. A bit for everyone, even viewers.

Seven’s night in regional markets with the News on top with 641,000, the Seven News/Today Tonight on 523,000, House Rules on 461,000, Home and Away was with 427,000 and The 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia with 414,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.5%)
  2. Nine (25.8%)
  3. Ten (21.5%)
  4. ABC (17.9%)
  5. SBS (7.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (18.2%)
  2. Seven (17.9%)
  3. Ten (16.1%)
  4. ABC (13.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (7.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.9%)
  2. 7mate (3.5%)
  3. GO (3.4%)
  4. ONE (3.3%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy, Gem (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.705 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.541 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.427 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.399 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.270 million
  6. House Rules (Seven) — 1.209 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.127 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.117 million
  9. MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 1.103 million
  10. Have You Been Paying Attention (Seven) — 1.075 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Nine News — 1.068 million
  2. Seven News — 1.064 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.026 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.018 million

Losers: A night for everyone who could bring themselves to watch.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.068 million
  2. Seven News — 1.064 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.026 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.018 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 884,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 740,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 601,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 568,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC) — 530,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC) — 451,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —442,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 358,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 243,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, News 24) — 239,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 179,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 100,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 92,000
  2. AFL: On The Couch (Fox Footy) — 79,000
  3. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 70,000
  4. Westworld (showcase) — 63,000
  5. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 60,000