The winners: Seven News was tops with 1.269 million viewers, with Today Tonight second with 1.225 million. So You Think You Can Dance Australia at 8.30pm on Ten was next with 1.154 million and Nine News was 4th with 1.070 million. Home And Away won 7pm with 1.056 million and A Current Affair averaged 1.053 million in 6th spot. Two And A Half Men at 7pm averaged 916,000 people. The Biggest Loser at 7.30pm on Ten, 874,000 and the lightweight 20 to 1 (AO) averaged 864,000 for Nine at 8.30pm. Mighty Ships on Seven at 7.30pm faded to average 844,000. It was programming filler.

The Losers: Medium on Ten at 10pm, 606,000, but it did beat CSI New York on Nine at 9.30pm, 592,000 and 10.30pm, 477,000. There’s a feeling Nine and Seven are going through the motions until after the Winter Games finish at the end of the month.

News & CA: Seven News and Today Tonight again won nationally and in every market but Melbourne, a change from the night before when Seven lost Sydney to the News and ACA. The 7pm ABC News averaged 920,000 nationally, the 7.30 Report, 616,000. Lateline, 219,000, Lateline Business, 126,000. Ten News 797,000, the late News/Sports Tonight, 266,000. 6.30pm SBS News, 191,000, 110,000 for the late edition. 7am Sunrise, 360,000, 7am Today, 319,000.

The Stats: Seven won 6pm to midnight All People with a combined overnight share of 28.5% from Nine with 27.1%, Ten with 25.5%, the ABC with 14.0% and SBS was on 4.9%. Nine won Sydney and Melbourne, Seven won Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Seven leads the week with a combined overnight share of 29.7% from 23.7% for Nine.

With pay TV included, free-to-air TV had an 82.4% share for 11 channels, the 100-plus pay TV channels shared 17.6%. Seven had 22.7%, Nine, 21.6%, Ten 20.3%, Pay TV, 17.6%, the ABC, 11.2%, SBS, 3,9%.

In regional areas, WIN/NBN won with a combined overnight share of 30.3%, with Prime/7Qld on 27.6%, Southern Cross (Ten), with 21.1%, the ABC 15.6% and SBS, 5.5%.

Digitally: Nine’s GO won with 3.0% (Nine’s main channel, 24.1%), from 7TWO with 2.9% (25.6% for Seven’s main channel). ABC2 was on 1.3% (ABC3, 0.4%, ABC1, 12.5%. Ten’s ONE was on 1.4% (Ten’s main channel, 24.1%, equal to Nine). SBS TWO was on 0.4%, SBS One was on 4.4% (And fighting with Ten over the use of ONE, silly people). Nine’s GO leads the week with 3.3%, with 7Two on 2.5%. Seven’s main channel, 29.7%, Nine, 27.0%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven won last night, but again was very weak in Sydney. Overall it was a close night (Ten was far more competitive than earlier in the week). But the offerings were mostly weak. Ten says it won 6pm to 10.30pm prime time in 16 to 39s, 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s.

Apart from SYTYCDA at 8.30pm, Getaway was the highlight of the post-7.30pm night for viewers. Although TBL was a bit better than Wednesday and Tuesday nights. Seven’s Bones ran for two hours and averaged 853,000. Viewers are not prepared to settle down and play favourites, yet.

TONIGHT: Cricket. Silent Witness is back with more rubbish on the ABC at 8.30pm. Seven has a Touch of Frost at 8.30pm, Ten has TBL, plus a repeat of NCIS. Nine has a movie after the cricket.

TOMORROW NIGHT: Really, really dull. Seven has another Touch of Frost at 8.30pm. Ten has two Star Wars movies and the ABC had The Bill and Taggart. Go out.

SUNDAY: More cricket on Nine, Australia versus the West Indies. Ten has TBL, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation returns at 7.30pm and a new series, The Good Wife starts at 8.30pm. The last two are worth a glimpse. Seven has Airways at 8pm, but the big tear jerker of the night is the doco on the conjoined twins separated in Melbourne last year: Trishna and Krishna at 6.30pm. The ABC has a doco on the 2009 Victorian bushfires that is also worth a look at 8.30pm.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports.