It was a weak weeknight: Seven’s Big Brother drew 508,000 nationally, and will pick up on the streaming and seven-day viewing figures. Celebrity Apprentice Australia on Nine — why anyone would want to record this, let alone stream it, is beyond me. Derivative, nasty and very ScoMo-ish. Yes, that’s the fault of its host, rich Pom Lord Alan Sugar — I know he is supposed to be a clone of Donald Trump but when the original is fractured, why follow? Would Nine allow itself to be run in the same fashion as Sugar’s management style? It is a boorish program.
The streaming and seven-day figures show Big Brother’s audience is up by between 40% and 50%.
Seven won total people, Nine won the main channels and Ten’s MasterChef Australia managed to sneak into the national top 10 at #10 with 658,000 viewers. MasterChef also easily topped the demos last night as viewers stayed away from BB and CA.
Network channel share:
- Seven (26.7%)
- Nine (25.6%)
- Ten (19.5%)
- ABC (17.7%)
- SBS (10.6%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (18.6%)
- Seven (16.6%)
- Ten (12.9%)
- ABC (11.4%)
- SBS ONE (6.1%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.3%)
- 7mate (3.8)
- 10 Bold (3.3%)
- ABC News (3.4%)
- 10 Peach (2.7%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.570 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.436 million
- Nine News — 1.184 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.152 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 954,000
- 7pm ABC News — 944,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 925,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 789,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 781,000
- MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 658,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 601,000; Seven News 6.30, 528,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 354,000; Nine News, 318,000; Home and Away; 317,000.
Losers: Big Brother, Celebrity Apprentice Australia — all things bad about TV
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 969,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 907,000
- Nine News, Nine News 6.30 — 866,000
- ACA (Nine) — 696,000
- 7pm ABC News — 633,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 540,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 383,000
- Ten News First — 327,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 260,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 418,000/251,000
- Today (Nine) — 223,000/217,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 305,000/198,000
- ABC Morning News — 280,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 249,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 160,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 46,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 85,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 71,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 62,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 49,000
- Silent Witness (BBC First) — 45,000
