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The Block is heading towards the pointy end — 1.241 million tuned in nationally. Landscaping is a perennial problem for those wealthy enough to buy a house with some ground, it would seem. Tonight is The Great Debate (where is Q+A when you need it?). Should we use couch or buffalo grass for the lawn — let the audience decide, 7.30pm on Nine. Tip: pick the one that is most flood-resistant!

Have You Been Paying Attention? had 764,000 nationally, another sterling effort after The Traitors (well-named lead-in) averaged 341,000. Australia’s Got Talent on Seven is still going on 695,000 viewers.

Four Corners, 534,000, deserved a lot more for the story of hundreds of unexplained deaths of Indigenous women. That’s a real story, and yet Seven and Nine are doing soft reworkings of cold or old cases in Under Investigation, or some of the stories in the 7NEWS Spotlight, or Sunday night’s effort, The Disappearance of Grace Millane.

Good effort but it happened in NZ. Four Corners last night put together the big current and continuing Australian crime story. And where are all those podcasters who peddle their investigative triumphs?

Regional Top Five: Seven News, 523,000; Seven News 6.30, 516,000; The Block, 394,000; ACA, 354,000; Nine News 6.30, 335,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (30.8%)
  2. Seven (26.1%)
  3. ABC (18.2%)
  4. Ten (17.4%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (23.7%)
  2. Seven (19.3%)
  3. ABC (13.6%)
  4. Ten (12.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.3%)
  2. Gem, 10 Peach (2.7%)
  3. ABC Kids/Plus (2.6%)
  4. 7mate (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.444 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.409 million
  3. The Block (Nine) — 1.241 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.138 million
  5. Nine News — 1.081 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.034 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 908,000
  8. Australian Story (ABC) — 819,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 810,000
  10. Home and Away (Seven) — 798,000

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

Losers: Ten viewers, again.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 927,000
  2. Seven News 6.30  — 886,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 802,000
  4. Nine News — 760,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 680,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 608,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) — 559,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 552,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) — 376,000
  10. Four Corners (ABC) — 367,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) —  402,000/230,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 303,000/208,000
  3. ABC News Breakfast — 256,000/168,000
  4. ABC Morning News — 251,000
  5. The Morning Show (Seven) —216,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 164,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 45,000

Top five Pay TV programs:

  1. F1: US Race (Fox Sports 506) — 91,000
  2. House of The Dragon (Fox Showcase) — 77,000
  3. House of The Dragon (Fox Showcase) — 70,000
  4. T20: World Cup Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 67,000
  5. T20: World Cup Mini: Bang v NED (Fox Cricket) — 57,000