Well, last night is last night, tonight is Origin, Game One from Melbourne on Nine. The football show piece of the year, in the alien heartland of the MCG. So Seven’s nice lead it had established up to last night will be blown away.

Last night, watching a bit of Masterchef (1.14 million) on Ten, and Back In Time For Dinner (906,000) on the ABC made me realise what Masterchef is lacking — a competition recreating the culinary atrocities from our past: grey roasts and hard chops and boiled vegies, Italian food with red sauce, canned pineapple in Asian food, condensed milk deserts.

Nine’s Buying Blind started last night with 818,000 nationally, 608,000 in the metros and 210,000 in the regionals. Regional viewers won’t support it, but there was a bit of a turn-on through the program in the metros last night, so it might go. But it is nothing but a House Rules spoiler. Interview on Seven with Andrew Denton — 560,000 for a satellite chat to Gene Simmons of Kiss. Why? 

In the regions, Seven’s night with the 6pm News on top with 589,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 476,000, then House Rules with 428,000, Home and Away with 419,000 and the 5.30 pm bit of The Chase Australia with 407,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.9%)
  2. Nine (25.3%)
  3. Ten (21.5%)
  4. ABC (17.1%)
  5. SBS (8.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (17.7%)
  2. Nine (17.0%)
  3. Ten (15.8%)
  4. ABC (12.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (5.1%)
  2. GO (3.7%)
  3. Gem (3.5%)
  4. 7TWO (3.3%)
  5. ONE (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.666 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.526 million
  3. Nine/NBN News 6.30pm— 1.407 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.385 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.247 million
  6. Masterchef (Ten) — 1.145 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.114 million
  8. House Rules (Seven) — 1.102 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.072 million
  10. 7pm ABC News — 1.021 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.077 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.050 million
  3. Nine News — 1.025 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.019 million

Losers: Something for everyone, again.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.077 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.050 million
  3. Nine News — 1.025 million
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.019 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 893,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 702,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 566,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 531,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 457,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 340,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 464,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 373,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News 24) — 239,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 221,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 161,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 104,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 89,000
  2. NRL: On The Couch (Fox League) — 698,000
  3. Jones & Co (Sky News) — 59,000
  4. Top Wing, Paw Patrol  (Nick Jr)  — 58,000