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Seven’s night. A bit closer than Monday night but Nine’s The Block finished 11th nationally again with 880,000 viewers. And though it does start slowly, there is nothing in this year’s version so far that looks like a ratings boost in waiting. If it can’t crawl into the top 10 and stay there, missing out will look like a bad habit. It is still too familiar to too many viewers.

Seven’s remake of Nine’s The Voice again did well with 1.57 million viewers — down on Monday and Sunday nights’ figures but still easily the most-watched non-news program, especially in the regions where it is doing very well.

Seven started a new program after The Voice — Australia Now and Then — which managed 768,000 nationally. Nine also started a new program after The Block called The Hundred With Andy Lee — 683,000 nationally. Both (like Win the Week on the ABC tonight) are attempts to try do something different from but familiar to Ten’s hit Have You Been Paying Attention? Nine boasted that the Lee program did just that but Seven’s program had far more viewers (helped by the higher lead-in from The Voice). Both are expensive compared with Have You Been Paying Attention?

Sam Pang (Have You Been Paying Attention?) was on Australia Now and Then and is also on The Front Bar (the best TV sports show since Roy and HG). Tom Gleeson from Hard Quiz on the ABC is going to be on The Hundred (as is Hamish Blake, not unexpectedly).

So this almost incestuous feel to these Melbourne-based comedy/light entertainment programs raises the question: are there enough FM radio comedians left for a new program? Amanda Keller is locked into The Front Room on Ten on Friday nights (which is not funny). Julia Zemiro and Marty Sheargold did Fisk on the ABC with Kitty Flanagan. (She and Sheargold pop up on HYBPA?)

Breakfast: Sunrise, 480,000 nationally and 299,000 metro; News Breakfast, 348,000 and 230,000; Today, 337,000 and 225,000.

Regional top five: Seven News, 691,000; Seven News 6.30, 664,000; The Voice, 508,000; Home and Away, 470,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 402,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.5%)
  2. Nine (26.4%)
  3. Ten (19.2%)
  4. ABC (15.0%)
  5. SBS (7.0%)


Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.1%)
  2. Nine (19.7%)
  3. Ten (12.4%)
  4. ABC (10.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.1%)


Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO, 10 Bold (3.3%)
  2. 10 Peach (2.8%)
  3. 7mate (2.7%)
  4. GO (2.3%)


Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.876 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.813 million
  3. The Voice (Seven) — 1.574 million
  4. Nine News  — 1.479 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.395 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.203 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.143 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.137 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.002 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC) — 893,000


Top metro programs: 
1. Seven News  — 1.185 million

2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.149 million

3. Nine News — 1.108 million 

4. The Voice (Seven) — 1.066 million

5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.051 million

Losers: The Hundred on Nine and Australia Now and Then on Seven.

Metro news and current affairs

  1. Seven News 1.185 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.149 million
  3. Nine News —1.108 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.051 million
  5. ACA (Nine) — 823,000
  6. 7pm ABC News —757,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 595,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 546,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 409,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 326,000


Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 480,000/289,000
  2. News Breakfast (ABC) — 348,000/230,000
  3. Today (Nine) — 337,000/225,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 283,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 207,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  47,000


Top five pay TV programs: 

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 84,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 71,000
  3. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 64,000
  4. AFL: On the Couch (Fox Footy), Credlin (Sky News) — 63,000