Strong ratings for the AFL on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights saw Seven win last week. But last night Nine blew Seven away with the highest figures for The Block for three years – 2.41 million national and more than 1.7 million in the metros.

Little Big Shots lost more viewers last night for Seven, but still managed to grab 1.93 million (as opposed to 2.07 million last week). It is now a solid hit than a breakout. Ten got past the ABC into third for the first time in weeks — that reflected the weak ABC line up and a boring Sherlock Holmes movie. In mornings Insiders again underlined its dominance of morning TV with 517,000 national viewers, also underlining the irrelevance of the post 7pm Sky News yellers.

In the regions The Block dominated with 713,000 viewers, followed by Little Big Shots with 707,000, then Nine News with 628,000, Nine/NBN News 6.30 with 605,000 and Seven News was fifth with 510,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (36.6%)
  2. Seven (28.3%)
  3. Ten (14.8%)
  4. ABC (14.6%)
  5. SBS (5.6%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (30.1%)
  2. Seven (20.4%)
  3. Ten (12.2%)
  4. ABC (0.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7flix (2.9%)
  2. 7mate (2.8%)
  3. ONE (2.7%)
  4. 7TWO (2.4%)
  5. ABC 2 (2.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Block (Seven) —2.414 million
  2. Nine/NBN News — 2.047 million
  3. Little Big Shots (Seven) — 1.939 million
  4. Seven News  — 1.581 million
  5. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.567 million
  6. 800 Words — 1.414 million
  7. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.234 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.055 million
  9. NRL: Elimination Final, Cronulla v Nth Qld  (Nine, Gem) — 879,000
  10. Australian Survivor (Ten) — 759,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.701 million
  2. Nine News — 1.409 million
  3. Little Big Shots (Seven) — 1.232 million
  4. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.079 million
  5. Seven News — 1.070 million

Losers: Seven and Ten

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.409 million
  2. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.079 million
  3. Seven News — 1.070 million
  4. Sunday Night (Seven) — 796,000
  5. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.037 million
  6. 7pm ABC News —696,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 340,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 292,000
  9. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 287,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Insiders (ABC, 362,000, 155,000 on ABC News) — 517,000
  2. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 479,000
  3. Landline (ABC) — 439,000
  4. Weekend Today (Nine) — 408,000
  5. Sports Sunday (Nine) — 259,000
  6. Offsiders (ABC) —  219,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox League (5.4%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.2%)
  3. Foxtel Movies Premiere (2.1%)
  4. Fox8  (1.7%)
  5. LifeStyle  (1.5%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Elimination Final, Cronulla v North Qld (Fox League) — 336,000
  2. NRL: The Weekend Wrap (Fox League) — 251,000
  3. NRL: Finals Footy on Fox (Fox League) — 111,000
  4. Rogue One: A Star wars Story (Foxtel Movies Premiere) — 79,000
  5. NRL: Holden Cup: Cronulla v Parramatta (Fox League) — 76,000