The winners: Today Tonight topped the most watched list with 1.287 million viewers, and Seven News was next with 1.271 million. The second ep of Grey’s Anatomy at 9.30pm averaged 1.213 million and the 8.30pm first ep, 1.2 million. the second outing for My Kitchen Rules at 7.30pm on Seven averaged 1.182 million with Nine’s A Current Affair 6th with 1.079 million. Nine News was next with 1.072 million, Home And Away averaged 1.056 million at 7 pm and Nine’s repeat of Two And A Half Men averaged 1.026 million in 9th spot.

The losers: Seven’s 10 Years Younger in 10 Days, from NZ. A logical impossibility? 384,000 viewers thought otherwise though at 10.30pm. A tired idea, the makeover.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market but Melbourne, as did Today Tonight. Nine News and ACA had more than a third of the audience in Melbourne last night. In Sydney, the 7pm ABC News (later, I know), had 284,000 viewers, Nine News, 266,000 at 6pm. Seven News at 6pm, 296,000. Nationally, the 7pm ABC averaged 976,000 viewers. The 7.30 Report, 772,000. Lateline, 216,000, Lateline Business, 114,000. Ten News, 814,000. The Late News/Sports Tonight, 301,000. SBS News, 162,000 at 6.30pm, 159,000 for the late edition. 7am Sunrise, 343,000, 7am Today, 338,000. Close indeed.

The stats: Seven won 6pm to midnight All People with a combined overnight share of 31.6%, from Nine with 27.1%, Ten with 18.9%, the ABC with 16.2% and SBS with 6.3%. Seven says it won all people, 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s in the metro markets. Seven won all five metro markets

Seven leads the week with a combined overnight share of 33.8%, with Nine on 26.5%. Seven’s main channel leads the week with 31.4% to Nine’s 23.1%.

Including Pay TV, the split was Seven with a combined overnight share of 25.6%, Nine with 21.9%, Pay TV with 16.5%, Ten with 15.3%, the ABC 13.1% and SBS, 5.1%. The FTA 11 channel share was 83.5%, the Pay TV share with more than 100 channels measured directly or indirectly, 16.5%.

Regionally, Prime/7Qld won with a combined overnight share of 29.3%, from WIN/NBN with 24.6%, the ABC on 18.8%, Southern Cross (Ten) with 18.1% and SBS on 9.2%.

Digitally: Nine’s GO won with 4% (Nine’s main channel was on 23.0%). 7TWO was on 2.7%, (Seven’s main channel, 28.9%), ABC2 with 1.4% (ABC3, 0.4%, ABC1, 14.4%). Ten’s ONE, 0.7%, Ten’s main channel, 18.2%, SBS TWO, 0.5%, SBS ONE, 5.7%. The digital channels had 9.2% combined. GO leads the week with a 4% share from 7TWO with 2.4%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven’s second ep of My Kitchen Rules was little better than the first. It didn’t lose audience from Monday night, unlike The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance Australia. It is fresher for viewers to watch, but Seven should really be paying some sort of fee to Ten and MasterChef Australia if only for forcing the network to think about a new cooking show after My Restaurant Rules failed to continue ruling.

SBS’s Why Are Thin People Not Fat at 7.30pm, 401,000. Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe series was surprisingly good, 905,000. It had more viewers than first ep of Survivor 892,000 and beat SYTYCDA. A very early message there for the networks. Show an interesting (but high brow) program and people will watch instead of viewing pap or stuff that’s become a bit predictable.

TONIGHT: Ten has The Biggest Loser and the latest audition for SYTYCDA. Both have weepy, emotional bits. Nine has Customs, the UK version, not Australia. Seven has RSPCA Animal Rescue back at 7.30pm and the weepy ICU at 8 pm. SBS has Rex in Rome and a repeat of Inspector Rex. The New Inventors at 8pm on the ABC and Spicks and Specks at 8.30 pm. This is actually one of the better nights of TV since last October-November.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports