There’s no Masking the fact it was a tepid TV Tuesday

Let’s face it, Tuesday night TV was on the dull side, even on the more popular programs on the commercial stations. The Block on Nine attracted 1.17 million nationally but host Scott Cam is a booming bore (or a boring Boomer), and the host on Seven’s SAS Australia (856,000) needs to be dropped from a chopper into a faraway swamp.

Ten’s The Masked Singer identified one of its guilty parties — the reveal drew in 893,000 after the lead-up averaged 779,000. On the same network, The Cheap Seats (495,000) seems to be improving — can we say the same about the similarly styled Question Everything airing tonight on the ABC?

Speaking of the ABC, Back to Nature is great lockdown viewing — last night it attracted 495,000, and deserved much more. And this morning, ol’ Aunty was quickest off the mark to report on the Victorian earthquake — Seven and Nine were very slow to get going.

Breakfast: Sunrise, 442,000 nationally and 251,000 metro; News Breakfast, 351,000 and 242,000; Today, 325,000 and 208,000.

Regional top five: Seven News, 638,000; Seven News 6.30, 602,000; 7pm ABC News, 399,000; Home and Away, 386,000; Nine News 6.30, 382,000.

Network channel share:

1. Nine (31.1%)
2. Seven (27.3%)
3. Ten (18.5%)
4. ABC (15.4%)
5. SBS (7.7%)

Network main channels:

1. Nine (23.4%)
2. Seven 19.6%)
3. Ten (11.9%)
4. ABC (10.8%)
5. SBS ONE (4.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7TWO (3.4%)
2. 7mate, 10 Peach (3.0%)
3. 10 Bold (2.9%)
4. Gem (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.748 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.6648 million
3. Nine News  — 1.418 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.363 million
5. 7pm ABC News — 1.192 million
6. The Block (Nine) — 1.176 million
7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.176 million
8. Home and Away (Seven) — 994,000
9. 7.30 (ABC) — 949,000
10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 920,000

Top metro programs: 
1. Seven News  — 1.109 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.062 million
3. Nine News  — 1.036 million

Losers: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe — so many choices

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News 1.109 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.062 million
3. Nine News —1.036 million
4. Nine News 6.30 — 987,000
5. ACA (Nine) — 807,000
6. 7pm ABC News —793,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 622,000
8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 536,000
9. Ten News First (ABC) — 376,000
10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 318,000

Morning (national) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven) — 442,000/251,000
2. News Breakfast (ABC) — 351,000/242,000
3. Today (Nine) — 325,000/208,000
4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 272,000
5. Today Extra (Nine) — 196,000
6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  47,000

Top five pay TV programs: 

1. Credlin (Sky News) — 102,000
2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) —74,000
3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 72,000
4. Wentworth (Fox Showcase) — 68,000
5. Newsday (Sky News) — 61,000