Stan Grant (Image: Supplied)

It’s only a couple more sleeps before we’re back to the boring nights of trying to decide between Netflix, Stan, Paramount+, Prime and AppleTV before checking the free-to-airs and finding that it’s back to the future TV (no, not the movie … although you never know) in the form of The Bachelor, Australian Survivor, The Voice and The Block. 

That kind of blandness could be enough to send you to the COVID-dodging sports — NRL, AFL or rugby union (Australia has again volunteered to join the annual All Black jeering at a suburban park in Auckland on Saturday night).

Weak displays by The Bachelor on Ten with 429,000 and Q+A on the ABC with 295,000. Yes, it was suffocated by the men’s hockey final on Seven, but the Q+A content was more of the same old — in the middle of a lockdown, it’s groundhog day (except the movie was far more entertaining and Stan Grant ain’t Bill Murray).

Breakfast: Sunrise, 556,000/355,000; Today, 334,000/239,000; News Breakfast, 323,000/211,000.
Regional Top 5: Seven News 6.30, 620,000; Seven News, 618,000; Tokyo Games Day 13 — Night, 566,000; Tokyo Games Day 13 – Evening, 484,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 406,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (53.7%)
  2. Nine (18.9%)
  3. Ten (11.9%)
  4. ABC (10.5%)
  5. SBS (5.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (43.8%)
  2. Nine (13.4%)
  3. Ten (7.1%)
  4. ABC (7.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (2.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (14.3%)
  2. 7TWO (4.6%)
  3. 10 Bold (2.5%)
  4. 10 Peach, GO (both 2.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Night (Seven) — 1.990 million
  2. Seven News — 1.944 million
  3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.833 million
  4. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Evening (Seven) — 1.571 million
  5. Nine News  — 1.4453 million
  6. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Late Afternoon (Seven) — 1.358 million
  7. Nine News 6.30 — 1.293 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.230 million
  9. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Afternoon (Seven) — 1.043 million
  10. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Late Night (Seven) — 1.004 million

Top metro programs: 
1. Tokyo Games Day 13 – Night (Seven) — 1.424 million
2. Seven News  — 1.326 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.212 million
4. Nine News —1.096 million
5.Tokyo Games Day 13 — Evening (Seven) — 1.087 million

Losers: None really because of the Games on Seven, but The Bachelor and Q+A were weak again.

Metro news and current affair:

  1. Seven News — 1.326 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.212 million
  3. Nine News — 1.096 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 976,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 716,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 666,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 496,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 397,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 360,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 297,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 556,000/355,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 334,000/239,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 323,000/211,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — pre-empted by the Games
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 219,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  51,000

Top 5 pay TV programs: 

  1. NRL: Newcastle vs Brisbane (Fox League) — 134,000
  2. Credlin (Sky News) — 83,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 73,000
  4. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 54,000
  5. NRL: The Late Show with Matty Johns (Fox League) — 53,000