Seven lazily went back to the past and once again strip-mined the archive of Hey Hey It’s Saturday’s “Red Faces” segment, showing a lack of any original ideas but nonetheless attracting 944,000. Ten at least tried something original with Hunted (a version of The Amazing Race?) and drew 859,000. Nine also did a bit of mining by reviving Beauty and the Geek — 615,000 tuned in, but maybe it’s one for the BVOD gang. Hunted might spark some BVOD interest as well — it’s back tonight, tomorrow night and then next Sunday.
The ABC started Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of The World — a snore but still 691,000. Also on the ABC — Insiders, with 593,000, which placed it back in the day’s national top 10.
Network channel share:
- Seven (27.3%)
- Nine (26.5%)
- Ten (20.9%)
- ABC (15.2%)
- SBS (10.1%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (20.4%)
- Nine (19.4%)
- Ten (15.3%)
- ABC (11.5%)
- SBS ONE (5.9%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (3.6%)
- 10 Peach (2.5%)
- 7TWO, GO, 10 Bold (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.377 million
- Nine News — 1.182 million
- The Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces (Seven) — 944,000
- Hunted (Ten) — 859,000
- 7pm ABC News — 839,000
- Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World (ABC) — 691,000
- Beauty and the Geek (Nine) — 615,000
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 593,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 530,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 522,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 464,000; The Best of the Best and Worst Red Faces, 352,000; Nine News, 337,000; 7pm ABC News, 266,000; Hunted, 241,000.
Losers: Seven, which ran out of ideas and went back to Hey Hey — again.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 917,000
- Nine News — 845,000
- 7pm ABC News — 569,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 386,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 383,000
- 7News Spotlight — 299,000
- Nine News Late — 244,000
- The Sunday Project 6.30 (Ten) — 244,000
- Ten News First — 219,000
- SBS World News — 159,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 593,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 367,000
- Landline (ABC) — 335,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 261,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 224,000
- Sports Sunday (Nine) — 206,000
Top five Pay TV programs:
- NRL: Melbourne v Canberra (Fox League) — 281,000
- NRL: Sunday Ticket (Fox League) — 259,000
- NRL: Canterbury v Souths (Fox League) — 234,000
- NRL: Wests v Penrith (Fox League) — 186,000
- NRL: Sunday Ticket (Fox League) — 179,000
