The Winners: Looking at these figures you’d be right in thinking it was an even night, and the ratings tell us that it was, in All People. But the demos tell us that Seven’s fleet of female skewing programs did better and cleaned up. The Good Wife finished on Ten for this season with 823,000.

  1. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.532 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.252 million
  3. Seven News (6pm) — 1.241 million
  4. Nine News (6pm)  — 1.127 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.062 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.012 million

The Losers: A weak night. Where to start: Nine’s Between The Lines, 531,000 for its last episode (too many). There was simply no difference to Hot Seat, Million Dollar Drop or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?  — all Eddie McGuire fronted quiz programs.

The NRL Footy Show in Sydney (129,000) and Brisbane (79,000), finished well down the rankings. It made Between The Lines look like good TV.

Private Practice on Seven at 10.30pm, 336,000.

News & CA: Nine News won Sydney and Melbourne, Seven won the rest. TT won everywhere bar Sydney which was won by ACA.

Today beat Sunrise in the mornings, again. It’s starting to get a little more frequent.

  1. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.252 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.241 million
  3. Nine News (6pm)  — 1.127 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.012 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 901,000
  6. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7am) — 801,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 614,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 562,000
  9. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) — 439,000
  10. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (10.30pm) — 278,000
  11. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 233,000
  12. SBS News (6.30pm) — 197,000
  13. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (11pm) — 172,000
  14. SBS News (9.30pm) — 132,000
  15. Lateline Business (11.05pm) –118,000

In the morning:

  1. Today (Nine) (7am) — 365,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 342,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 27.8%, from Nine (3) on 27.3%, Ten (3) on 25.0%, the ABC (4) on 14.5%, and SBS (2) on 5.5%. Seven leads the week with 32.7% from Ten on 24.6% and Nine on 24.5%. The NRL tonight will ensure Nine is back in front of Ten tomorrow morning.
  • Main Channel: Seven won with 20.1%, from Ten on 19.8%, Nine on 19.4%, ABC 1 on 9.9% and SBS ONE on 4.9%. Seven leads the week with 25.3% from Ten on 19.0% and Nine on 18.5%.
  • Digital: GO won with 4.6% from 7TWO on 3.9%, 7mate was on 3.7%, Eleven was on 3.7%, Gem was on 3.3%, ABC 2 was on 3.1%, ONE was on 1.6%, ABC 3 was on 0.9% and News 24 and SBS TWO were on 0.6% each. That’s an FTA viewing share of 25.9% late night. 7TWO leads the week with 4.1% from 7mate on 3.2%, GO on 3.1% and Eleven on 3.0%.
  • Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 22.8%, with Nine (3), just behind on 22.4%, Ten (3) was on 20.5%, Pat TV (100 plus channels) was on 15.1%, the ABC (4) was on 11.9% and SBS (2) ended with 4.5%. That’s an viewing share last night for the 15 FTA channels of 84.9%. The 10 digitals had a high 21.4% and the five main channels totalled 63.5%.
  • Regional: WIN/NBN (3 channels) won with a share of 29.3%, from Prime/7Qld on 29.0%, SC Ten (3 channels) was on 22.5%, the ABC (4) ended with 13.8% and SBS (2) was on 5.4%. WIN/NBN won the main channels from Prime/7Qld and SC Ten. 7mate won the digitals with 5.5%, with GO on 4.8%, and 7TWO on 4.3%. That’s a high FTA viewing share last night of 28.9%. Prime/7Qld on 33.6% leads the week with WIN/NBN on 27.3%.

Major Markets: A very mixed night. Seven won nationally because of a big win in Perth and a smaller, but significant margin in Adelaide. Seven won overall in Sydney Adelaide and Perth. Seven won the main channels in Adelaide and Perth and Ten won in Sydney and Brisbane. Nine won overall in Brisbane and Melbourne. Nine won the main channels in Melbourne. GO won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Gem won Adelaide and 7mate won Perth. Seven leads the week from Ten and Nine in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Seven leads Nine from Ten in Melbourne and Brisbane.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: A typical near winter Thursday night. Close on All People, thanks to MasterChef lifting Ten and Nine hanging in. But Seven’s apparently lower rating programs like How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s Anatomy, Home & Away and Desperate Housewives attracted a solid number of female viewers.

Angry Boys last week was recorded and replayed by 234,000 people, taking the week’s total audience to 1.058 million. It’s original audience was cut by the State of Origin to 824,000 (up from 805,000 in the early estimates from OzTAM).

TONIGHT: AFL and NRL as usual on Seven and Nine and later on Foxtel. Hustle returns to the ABC at 9.30 pm. That’s after Taggart, which also returns to the ABC an hour earlier. Must turn on the closed captioning so I can get an English translation. On 7TWO this afternoon a classic movie, On The Beach, or see Melbourne and wonder why.

Saturday: AFL on Ten and Foxtel, NRL on Foxtel. The Inspector Morse repeat on 7TWO at 8.40pm stands out, even if it’s slow as. Guess what? Nine has Crocodile Dundee on tonight at 9.40pm! Dr Who on the ABC at 7.30pm.

SUNDAY: The morning chats. NRL and AFL on Seven, Nine and Foxtel. Seven has Dancing With The Stars if you want to, Downton Abbey, because you HAVE to. Ten has MasterChef, Nine has In Their Footsteps. SBS has Dateline, the ABC as another episode of The Kennedys.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports