The Masked Singer Australia (Image: 10play.com.au)

Nine’s night, thanks to The Block (1.033 million nationally) after ACA’s strong 1.052 million. But Ten really starred — the reveal on The Masked Singer drew 854,000 as the program heads towards the pointy end (the lead-up averaged 677,000). But the turn-on to Have You Been Paying Attention? took its national audience to 954,000 and seventh nationally — one of its highest ever rankings.

Nine and Ten swamped Seven and the latest ep of MKR — 702,000 was just not strong enough for Seven. On the ABC, 7.30 with 753,000 and Back Roads with 702,000 averaged 728,000 for the hour from 7.30-8.30pm and pushed MKR down the rankings. Another very solid ep of Back Roads, by the way — this is the best series since the first one.

Breakfast saw big drops in viewers for Sunrise and Today, and ABC News Breakfast jumped up into second spot because it held on to viewers and Today didn’t.

On Foxtel, the first showing of the Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon averaged 115,000, a repeat averaged 87,000, and another repeat 66,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (28.2%)
  2. Seven (25.5%)
  3. Ten (21.9%)
  4. ABC (16.9%)
  5. SBS (7.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (21.9%)
  2. Seven (17.8%)
  3. Ten (16.4%)
  4. ABC (12.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7Two (3.4%) 
  2. 7mate (3.0%), 
  3. 10 Bold (2.6%)
  4. ABC Kids/Plus (2.5%)
  5. 10 Peach (2.2%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.511 million
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.507 million
  3. Nine News 6.30pm — 1.178 million
  4. Nine News — 1.163 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.052 million
  6. The Block (Nine) — 1.033 million
  7. Have You Been Paying Attention (Ten) — 954,000
  8. 7pm ABC News — 909,000
  9. The Masked Singer Reveal (Ten) — 854,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 853,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Regional top 5: Seven News 6.30, 569,000; Seven News, 559,000; Home and Away, 317,000; ACA, 332,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm; Nine News 6.30, 313,000.

Losers: My Kitchen Rules — still overcooked and a bad recipe.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 948,000
  2. Seven News 6.30pm — 942,000
  3. Nine News — 898,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 869,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 740,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 664,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 526,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 395,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC) — 351,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC) — 348,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 338,000/198,000
  2. ABC News Breakfast — 280,000/176,000
  3. Today (Nine) — 269,000/186,000
  4. ABC News Mornings — 250,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 207,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 124,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 45,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. House of the Dragon (Fox Showcase) — 115,000
  2. House of the Dragon (Fox Showcase) — 87,000
  3. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 84,000
  4. House of the Dragon (Fox Showcase) — 66,000
  5. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 61,000