Nine’s night as The Block (1.15 million) dominated after 7.30pm. SAS Australia on Seven had 842,000. The Masked Singer reveal on Ten got 889,000 and pulled 755,000 for the performance. (Danni Minogue was right; Dave Hughes looked like a rip-off lounge lizard.)
And talking of rips, The Cheap Seats on Ten afterwards managed 441,000 — a big turn-off as the core audience bailed. After giving it several weeks to settle in it is just another “fair dealing” program using vision from other sources and making fun of what others say and think — mostly on other channels or online — and living on the scraps left from Monday’s Have you Been Paying Attention? and getting in before Question Everything on the ABC.
My fave Back to Nature on the ABC at 8pm had 435,000. Last night had the red centre and more understanding about Australia than you’d get on any of those comedian-based programs (with the exception of Have You Been Paying Attention? because it remains the gold standard for the genre).
Regional top five: Seven News 6.30, 597,000; Seven News, 591,000; Home and Away, 383,000; Nine News, 362,000; Nine News 6.30, 7pm ABC News, 354,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (30.7%)
- Seven (27.3%)
- Ten (18.8%)
- ABC (14.8%)
- SBS (8.4%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (22.7%)
- Seven (18.5%)
- Ten (12.1%)
- ABC (10.0%)
- SBS ONE (4.9%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (3.7%)
- 10 Bold (3.4%)
- 7mate (3.2%)
- Gem (2.9%)
- 10 Peach (2.7%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.684 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.663 million
- Nine News — 1.329 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.311 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.155 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.143 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.046 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 986,000
- The Masked Singer — reveal (Ten) — 889,000
- SAS Australia (Seven) — 8420000
Top metro programs:
1. Seven News — 1.094 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.067 million
Losers: the night except for Back to Nature on the ABC.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News 1.094 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.067 million
- Nine News —967,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 957,000
- ACA (Nine) — 802,000
- 7pm ABC News —693,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 518,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 495,000
- Ten News First (Ten) — 376,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 299,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 423,000/247,000
- Today (Nine) — 355,000/240,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 322,000/209,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 235,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 198,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 42,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Alan Jones (Sky News) — 83,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 80,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) —55,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 54,000
- PML Later (Sky News) — 53,000
Glenn Dyer writes an entire article slamming the Cheap Seats for its audience numbers, saying “the core audience bailed” and the show’s not worth it “according to viewers”
Glenn then praises his “fave” Back To Nature – which had 6,000 less viewers!
I’m not a mathematician, but it looks like the audience bailed more on Back To Nature?
Innumeracy or hypocrisy?
Might be time to go Back To School Glenn…