More than a million for a second week for The Block (1.08 million) might indicate that the ageing format is recovering favour. On the other hand, the remake of The Voice on Seven with its 1.75 million viewers — another Sunday with more than 1.7 million viewers — tells us the real winner on several levels. Australian Survivor averaged 861,000 — back in third of the so-called reality programs on commercial TV and good for Ten.
The Newsreader on the ABC got 744,000 after 819,000 for the debut. Earnest, worthy, dull?
Insiders — a half hour grilling of ScoMo by Speersy — 767,000. Observant viewers may have noticed that was more than The Newsreader. Different timeslots and all, but news and current affairs and bloody sports go hand in hand, especially the grilling of a floundering political leader.
Tonight Have You Been Paying Attention? It is not Win the Week, not The Hundred and not Question Everything — they’re weak imitations.
Breakfast: Insiders, 767,000; Landline, 491,000; Weekend Sunrise, 486,000; Weekend Today, 412,000
Regional top five: Seven News, 636,000; The Voice, 582,000; Nine News, 477,000; 7pm ABC News, 387,000; The Block, Homicide: with Ron Iddles, 346,000.
Network channel share:
- Seven (32.1%)
- Nine (27.3%)
- Ten (18.6%)
- ABC (14.7%)
- SBS (7.4%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (25.2%)
- Nine (19.6%)
- Ten (13.2%)
- ABC (10.9%)
- SBS ONE (4.4%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.2%)
- GO (2.9%)
- 10 Bold (2.7%)
- Gem, 9Life (1.9%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.917 million
- The Voice (Seven) — 1.758 million
- Nine News — 1.640 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.083 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.079 million
- Homicide: with Rod Iddles (Seven) — 916,000
- Australian Survivor (Ten) — 861,000
- Joanna Lumley’s Britain (ABC) — 919,000
- The Newsreader (ABC) — 833,000
- Insiders (ABC) — 767,000
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.282 million
- The Voice (Seven) — 1.177 million
- Nine News — 1.163 million
Losers: The Block — staggering over a million, once a week, The Voice more than 600,000 in front.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.282 million
- Nine News — 1.163 million
- 7pm ABC News — 692,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 521,000
- Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 471,000
- Nine Late News, The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 334,000
- Ten News First — 308,000
- SBS World News — 223,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 746,000
- Landline (ABC) — 491,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 486,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 412,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 265,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 240,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- NRL: Brisbane vs Auckland (Fox League) — 240,000
- NRL: Sunday Ticket (Fox League) — 235,000
- NRL: St George vs Easts (Fox League) — 214,000
- AFL: Sunday Ticket (Fox Footy) — 153,000
- AFL: Essendon vs Collingwood (Fox Footy) — 146,000
I see Joanna Lumley’s Britain is again in the top 10 – its interesting but neither brilliant not comprehensive as a travelogue – why do you think it is so popular?
Auckland, St George, Easts – its like it’s 1994 again
Insiders lost me this week…I don’t listen to, or watch, anything Scummo says!