Why dwell on last night when tonight provides Origin One on Nine? (That’s State of Origin, Game One to the uninitiated.) To divert your attention, Seven is offering Big Brother and Ten has MasterChef Australia, while on the ABC Gruen and The Weekly will be floating in the ether. But if you thrill to Big Men Battering Each Other, it’s Origin for you.
MasterChef last night again topped the trio of so-called reality programs with 743,000 national viewers (and kept its #1 slot in that pack from the previous Tuesday night with a 19% lift to 857,000). Nine’s Celebrity Apprentice was next with 557,000 and saw its overnight and streaming figures rise 19% to 740,000 over the week from Tuesday last week. BB had 545,000 last night and the past week saw a 56% jump in its audience over the week to 740,000 people. Expect a similar-sized rise in the next seven days. MasterChef is still dominant in the demos.
Seven’s hour of news dominated the night, as it does, although Origin is expected to dominate tonight. The 5.30pm section of The Chase Australia went within a smidge of 1 million national viewers — 997,000 — to be the most watched non-news program (again). It’s always an indicator of just how weak the night’s offerings are (with the exception of 7.30 and Home and Away).
Network channel share:
- Seven (27.8%)
- Nine (26.8%)
- Ten (20.6%)
- ABC (15.1%)
- SBS (9.8%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.3%)
- Nine (17.5%)
- Ten (14.0%)
- ABC (10.4%)
- SBS ONE (5.8%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.1%)
- 7mate, GO (3.6%)
- 10 Peach (3.0%)
- 10 Bold, Gem (2.9%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.668 million
- Seven News 6.30pm — 1.547 million
- Nine News — 1.220 million
- Nine News 6.30pm — 1.161 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 997,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 951,000
- 7pm ABC News — 939,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 830,000
- MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 743,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 707,000
Top metro programs:
1. Seven News — 1.050 million
2. Seven News 6.30pm — 1.003 million
Regional Top 5: Seven News, 618,000; Seven News 6.30pm, 544000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 386,000; Home and Away; 324,000; Nine News, 321,000.
Losers: BB, Celebrity Apprentice — again.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.050 million
- Seven News 6.30pm — 1.003 million
- Nine News — 900,000
- Nine News 6.30pm — 852,000
- ACA (Nine) — 653,000
- 7pm ABC News — 627,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 457,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 410,000
- Ten News First — 305,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 253,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 394,000/227,00
- Today (Nine) — 290,000/188,000
- ABC News Breakfast — 283,000/184,000
- ABC Morning News — 246,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 215,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 155,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 36,000
Top five Pay TV programs:
- Shadee’s Story (Sky News) — 76,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 62,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 59,000
- NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 57,000
- AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 52,000
