Seven improved last night with Plate of Origin out of the Sunday night line-up. In its place: the reworked version of The Full Monty.
The All New Monty — with gals and guys taking their gear off — recorded an audience of 1.19 million. That’s nearly double the figure for the previous Sunday’s Plate of Origin flop.
The Block room winner reveal was steady on a week ago (1.34 million) and enough to win the night. But The All New Monty saw Seven move to second with the ABC third, well ahead of Ten back in fourth (in total people and the main channels).
Freeman, the Cathy Freeman Sydney 2000 story, had 974,000 viewers on the ABC (it was a lovely, feel-good remainder of Australia in another time). Midsomer Murders clocked 825,000, and Insiders landed on 607,000 — down on a week ago. The latter missed the national top 10 for the first time in six weeks.
In regional markets: Seven News, 544,000; All New Monty, 411,000; 7pm ABC News, 365,000; Nine/NBN News, 361,000; The Block, 353,000.
Network channel share
- Nine (30.3%)
- Seven (28.3%)
- ABC (19.8%)
- Ten (12.7%)
- SBS (8.9%)
Network main channels
- Nine (21.4%)
- Seven (20.4%)
- ABC (15.9%)
- Ten (7.1%)
- SBS ONE (6.5%)
Top five digital channels
- 7Mate (4.4%)
- 10 Bold (3.7%)
- GO (3.6%)
- ABC Kids/Comedy (2.5%)
- Gem (2.3%)
Top 10 national programs
- Seven News — 1.67 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.37 million
- The Block — Room Reveal Winner (Nine) – 1.34 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.3 million
- All New Monty (Seven) — 1.19 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.12 million
- Freeman (ABC) — 974,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 845,000
- Midsomer Murders (ABC) — 825,000
- Crime Investigation Australia (Seven) — 631,000
Top metro programs
- Nine News — 1.13 million
- Seven News — 101 million
Metro news and current affairs
- Nine News — 1.13 million
- Seven News — 101 million
- 7pm ABC News – 755,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 586,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 377,000
- Ten News First — 285,000
- The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 274,000
- SBS World News — 180,000
Morning (national) TV
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News ) — 607,000
- Landline (ABC) — 411,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) – 402,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) – 307,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 224,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 173,000
Top five pay TV programs
- NRL: Melbourne v North Qld (Fox League) — 208,000
- NRL:Cronulla v Auckland (Fox League) — 201,000
- AFL: Hawthorn v Footscray (Fox Footy) — 199,000
- AFL: Carlton v Adelaide (Fox Footy) — 188,000
- AFL: Sydney v Brisbane (Fox Footy) — 148,000
I constantly wonder if the published stats actually represent reality.
Am I the only one who found the Freeman show on the ABC unwatchable? I turned on about half way through. They were showing the race, but so chopped up and intermixed with some ballet dancer and various jarring visual effects that I literally lasted only 2 minutes.