A one program night again. The Beast was on the prowl and My Kitchen Rules ruled. Ten did a bit better, in fact a lot better than it did over Easter with mildly interesting programs and solid figures for the  5pm News. My Kitchen Rules had 2.116 million national viewers. The Block on Nine had 1.380 million, more than 700,000 less than My Kitchen Rules and a good measure of the difference this year between the two. Nine News was second nationally and in the metros and had margins of 98,000 over Seven News in Sydney and 105,000 in Melbourne. Nine was a narrow winner in Brisbane, Seven a big winner in Adelaide and Perth, but it is the performances in Sydney and Melbourne that are letting Seven down time and time again.

Ten News at 5pm was a rare top 10 entrant nationally last night with 977,000 viewers and 709,000 in the metros — the best since July last year. That was due more to the underwhelming program after 7pm on Seven when My Kitchen Rules ended. How To Get Away With Murder is now all but forgotten by local audiences — 804,000 nationally and 502,000 in the metros.

Tonight, make sure you watch Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell at 8pm, and then the final of three parts on the history of Australian comedy.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (30.3%)
  2. Nine (19.1%)
  3. Ten (19.2%)
  4. ABC (15.0%)
  5. SBS (6.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (22/8%)
  2. Nine (20.6%)
  3. Ten (12.6%)
  4. ABC (11.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (4.3%)
  2. GO (4.2%
  3. 7TWO (4.0%)
  4. Eleven (3.5%)
  5. ONE (3.1)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 2.116 million
  2. Nine News — 1.584 million
  3. Seven News — 1.440 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.400 million
  5. The Block (Nine) — 1.380 million
  6. ABC News — 1.269 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.165 million
  8. Nine News 6.30 — 1.053 million
  9. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.040 million
  10. Ten Eyewitness News — 977,000

Top metro programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 1.416 million
  2. Nine News — 1.155 million
  3. Seven News — 1.098 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.053 million
  5. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.040 million

Losers: Not the most uplifting night of TV viewing, was it? Especially if you detest cooking and renovation shows.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.155 million
  2. Seven News — 1.098 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.053 million
  4. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.040 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 980,000
  6. ABC News  – 857,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 709,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 670,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 635,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 459,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 341,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 294,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 148,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 86,000 + 53,000 on News 24) — 139,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 133,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 67,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox8 (3.7%)
  2. TVHITS (1.9%)
  3. LifeStyle, UKTV (1.8%)
  4. Cartoon Network (1.6%0

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Wentworth (SoHo) – 100,000
  2. Back Page (Fox Sports 1) – 89,000
  3. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 85,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox) – 82,000
  5. The Simpsons (Fox) – 74,000

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