Only one program mattered last night — The Good Doctor which lifted its audience from last Thursday, just as Tuesday’s episode lifted its audience from a week earlier. Last night, The Doc managed 1.568 million up from 1.490 million with the metro audience rising to 1.005 million from 950,000. With a solid night for Seven’s Instant Hotel — 1.088 million — it was Seven’s night and week.

Gogglebox on Ten did well with 830,000 national viewers and lots of cheeky focus group comments for the networks. Cram though an hour earlier on Ten at 7.30 was nothing to boast about — 504,000 nationally and just 363,000 in the metros. Ten’s 2018 launch yesterday has this one returning next year. That’s a call too soon. Last night’s ep went on and on and on and has to be cut to half an hour and tightened up.

In regional markets, another Seven benefit night — The Good Doc was on top with 563,000, then Seven News with 497,000, Home and Away was third with 420,000, then Seven News/TT with 415,000 and fifth was Instant Hotel with 401,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.2%)
  2. Nine (24.2%)
  3. Ten (19.4%)
  4. ABC (15.5%)
  5. SBS (7.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.6%)
  2. Nine (17.5%)
  3. Ten (13.6%)
  4. ABC (9.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.5%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (3.9%)
  2. 7TWO (3.7%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.5%)
  4. Eleven(3.1%)
  5. GO (2.7%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Good Doctor (Seven)  — 1.568 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.336 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.260 million
  4. Instant Hotel (Seven) — 1.088 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30  — 1.078 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.077 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.061 million
  8. Nine/NBN News — 1.072 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 968,000
  10. RBT repeat (Nine) —968,000

Top metro programs: 

  1. The Good Doctor (Seven)  — 1.005 million

Losers: Definitely not The Good Doctor, which audiences seemed to think was a real humdinger.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News/Today Tonight — 846,000
  2. Seven News — 839,000
  3. Nine News — 788,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 780,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 741,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 680,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 493,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 430,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 406,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 323,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 497000
  2. Today (Nine) – 395,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 207,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, 169,000 + 92,000 on ABC News ) — 261,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 159,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 119,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Grand Designs (LifeStyle) — 56,000
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 53,000
  3. PML Overtime (Sky News) — 45,000
  4. NCIS (Fox8) – 42,000
  5. Love It Or Leave It Australia (LifeStyle) — 42,000

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