Wednesday night — more to say about what’s coming up (Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery, The Weekly, Masterchef) than what we saw last night — a desert not a dessert.
Masterchef, 1.19 million nationally, The Voice 1.29 million. Even those two are now in the familiar same-old-same-old stage of the season. House Rules on Seven, 770,000. Very Netflix last night.
In breakfast, Today had a solid morning — 342,000/230,000, second again behind Sunrise with 506,000/307,000 and ahead of ABC News Breakfast with 329,000/222,000.
In the regions, Seven News, 674,000, Seven News 6.30, 627,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 435,000, Home and Away, 394,000, 7pm ABC News, 373,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (29.7%)
- Seven (24.1%)
- Ten (20.3%)
- ABC (17.2%)
- SBS (8.7%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (21.5%)
- Seven (16.3%)
- Ten (14.4%)
- ABC (12.5%)
- SBS ONE (5.8%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (3.7%)
- 7mate (3.2%)
- 7TWO (2.8%)
- GO (2.5%)
- ABC Kids/Comedy, Gem (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.94 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.76 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.42 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.37 million
- The Voice (Nine) — 1.29 million
- Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.19 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.14 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.11 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) –1.08 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.03 million
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.27 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.14 million
- Nine News — 1.09 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.01 million
Losers: Seven – zzzzzzzzz
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.27 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.14 million
- Nine News — 1.09 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.01 million
- 7pm ABC News – 763,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) – 762,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 603,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 588,000
- Foreign Correspondent (ABC) — 497,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 392,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) – 506,000/307,000
- Today (Nine) – 342,000/230,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 329,000/230,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 313,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 240,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 78,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) – 79,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 76,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 60,000
- The Big Bang Theory (Fox Funny) – 56,000
- PML Later (Sky News) – 50,000
As a general rule, the only things worth watching on commercial TV are replays of shows that have previously been on ABC or SBS. The only cooking program which has any real connection with real life is The Cook and the Chef; which, unfortunately, won’t have any new ones. I may occasionally look at commercdial TV if someone would buy me a new remote control. The mute button is dead on mine.