Flops: SAS Australia: Hell Week — 584,000 nationally (hell for Seven’s programmers who got too greedy). We’ve just had several weeks of being bored by this format. Love Island Australia: 363,000. An unmitigated flop for Nine, who has to screen it to write off some of the costs against whatever dribble of revenue that can be written against this turkey.
By the way, Seven ran a movie called Anna after SAS Australia which tanked badly — 274,000. The network’s programmers should be sitting in the naughty corner this morning.
Have You Been Paying Attention? on Ten, 957,000 after Celebrity MasterChef‘s 775,000. Ten viewers again show they are smarter than Ten’s programmers.
The Block — 1.29 million, plus solid outings for ACA (1.15 million) and the hour of news (1.32 million national average). Seven News is still the most watched hour of TV in the country — an average of 1.66 million for the hour, with that dominance flowing from Adelaide, Perth and the regions, especially Queensland.
The ABC’s Australian Story looked at Max Gillies — 951,000 nationally for a national treasure which flowed nicely into Germany’s treasure on Four Corners — 880,000 viewers for a biography of Angela Merkel that left us viewers in Australia wondering why she succeeded and someone like Julia Gillard in Australia was so reviled by the media.
Breakfast: Sunrise, 447,000 nationally and 257,000 metro; Today, 317,000 and 217,000; ABC News Breakfast, 314,000 and 206,000.
Regional top five: Seven News, 624,000; Seven News 6.30, 603,000; Home and Away, 384,000; 7pm ABC News 377,000; Australian Story, 349,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (30.0%)
- Seven (24.3%)
- Ten (21.1%)
- ABC (17.4%)
- SBS (7.1%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (21.5%)
- Seven (17.1%)
- Ten (14.4%)
- ABC (13.8%)
- SBS ONE (4.2%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (3.8%)
- 7TWO (3.4%)
- Gem (3.2%)
- 7mate (2.5%)
- GO, 10 Peach (2.2%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.692 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.627 million
- Nine News — 1.334 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.324 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.292 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.155 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.063 million
- Have You Been Paying Attention? (Ten) — 957,000
- Australian Story (ABC) — 951,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 945,000
Top metro programs:
1. Seven News — 1.068 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.023 million
3. Nine News — 1.003 million
Losers: Love Island and SAS Australia: Hell Week, suited to each other.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.068 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.022 million
- Nine News — 1.003 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 985,000
- ACA (Nine) — 826,000
- 7pm ABC News — 685,000
- Australian Story (ABC) — 602,000
- Four Corners (ABC) — 581,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 567,000
- Media Watch (ABC) — 482,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 447,000/257,000
- Today (Nine) — 317,000/217,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 314,000/206,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 246,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 162,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 46,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 80,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 73,000
- Alan Jones (Sky News) — 67,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 60,000
- The Kenny Report (Sky News) — 38,000
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