The Winners: The Block was the only program of any interest last night, seeing it’s reaching the end. It did very well in the demos as Nine and Ten battled for the 16 to 39s, 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s. Seven won All People and did well with the ignored over 55s.

Ten’s new series, Raising Hope, averaged 999,000 for its debut at 8pm. Another variant on the Modern Family format. And Ten’s Modern Family was also weak last night with 977,000 for a fresh episode when it used to get well over a million and 1.1 million when nights were a little darker and cooler.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.283 million
  2. The Block (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.230 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.140 million
  4. Today Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.133 million
  5. City Homicide (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.059 million
  6. The Force (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.056 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.011 million

The Losers: A lot of last night’s TV was for losers. A collection of near misses, fading hits and flops. Nine’s once stalwart RPA down to 684,000 at 9.30pm. Nine’s Two and a Half Men repeat won the 7pm timeslot beating Seven’s Home and Away.

News & CA: Nine News won Sydney and Brisbane in a solid night. ACA won Melbourne. Seven News and Today Tonight won the rest.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.283 million
  2. Nine News (6pm) — 1.140 million
  3. Today Night (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.133 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.011 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 934,000
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 729,000
  7. Ten News (Ten) (5pm) — 709,000
  8. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 697,000
  9. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.30pm) — 298,000
  10. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 223,000
  11. SBS News (6.30pm) — 177,000
  12. SBS News (9.30pm) — 166,000
  13. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05) — 124,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 400,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) 339,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven won (3 channels) with a share of 32.7%, from Nine (3), with 29.0%, Ten (2), 18.4%, the ABC (4), 14.7% and SBS (2), 5.2%. Seven leads the week on 30.9%, from Nine with 26.2% and Ten on 22.9%.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with a share of 24.9%, from Nine on 24.2%, Ten on 17.9%, ABC 1, 11.4% and SBS ONE, 4.2%. Seven leads the week with 25.4%, from Ten on 21.7% and Nine with 20.9%.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 4.1%, from 7Mate on 3.7%, GO on 2.9%, ABC 2 on 2.2%, Gem with 1.8%, SBS ONE with 1.0%, ABC 3 with 0.6% and ONE and News 24 on 0.5%. The nine channels had an FTA share of 17.3%. The digital FTA shares ranged from 14.2% in Sydney to 21.3% in Perth, with Adelaide on 20.9%. GO leads the week with 3.3% from 7TWO on 2.8% and 7Mate on 2.7%.
  • Pay TV: Seven with 3 channels won with a share of 26.7% from Nine (3) with 23.7%, Ten (2) was on 15.1%, as was Pay TV (100-plus channels). The ABC (4 channels) finished with 12.0% and SBS (2), 4.3%. That left the 14 FTA channels with a share of 84.9%, made up of the nine digitals on 14.2% and the five main channels with 70.7%. The Pay TV shares ranged from the usual high in Sydney of 17.7% to the low of 11.6% in Adelaide and 15.2% in Perth.
  • Regional: Prime/7Qld won with a share of 34.7% from WIN/NBN on 32.3%, SC Ten was on 16.1%, the ABC, 12.4% and SBS, 5.4%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels from WIN/NBN. GO won the digitals with 3.9%, from 7TWO on 3.8% and 7Mate on 3.7%. the nine digital channels had an FTA share of 17.5% in prime time last night. Prime/7Qld leads the week with 32.1%, from WIN/NBN with 28.1%.

Major Markets: Overall, Seven won from Nine and Ten everywhere. In the main channels, Nine won Sydney and Melbourne from Seven and Ten. Seven won the main channels in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. 7Mate won the digitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. 7TWO won Adelaide and Perth by bigger margins which saw 7TWO take national honours on the night. Seven leads the week from Nine and Ten everywhere bar Perth where its Seven from Ten and Nine.

(All shares on the basis of combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People)

Glenn Dyer’s comments: A lightweight night all up. Nothing to really recommend it. Tonight is the same.

TONIGHT: Dare I say it? Beauty and The Geek Australia on Seven. Perhaps CSI on Nine. Rush is on Ten, but Cops L.A.C has gone from Nine. Rake on suspicion tonight at 8.30pm on the ABC. Really, start your Christmas shopping tonight.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports