The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven’s relief can be still heard around TV land as The X Factor clicked with viewers. But Ten’s continuing pain drowned out Seven’s relief as it suffered another night from ratings hell.

It was also a night that provided a rude reminder to Nine that the highs from the launch of Big Brother and Underbelly: Badness a week ago last night are fleeting. Both programs lost heavily, Underbelly: Badness dropping more than half a million metro viewers and Big Brother over 430,000. A small worry for Nine would be that 33,000 people vanished from Big Brother by the time the high point of last night’s program, the live nominations, came around. That’s not a good look as the nominations are supposed to be the highlight of those episodes.

Ten, unfortunately, produced another turkey: Don’t Tell the Bride which has promoted from tonight to last night to replace the bigger turkey called Everybody Dance Now. Don’t Tell the Bride averaged 583,000 (and 815,000 nationally) and pulled down the figures for the returning Can of Worms at 8.30pm which averaged 590,000 metro and 787,000 nationally.

Seven’s The X Factor averaged a very solid 1.598 million metro and more than 2.3 million national viewers.

Tonight: More The X Factor from Seven, Foreign Correspondent from the ABC, Insight and Dateline from SBS. Ten has I Will Survive. Nine has Big Brother and then double episodes of Anger Management. Ten also has a new NCIS. Basic Instinct (the movie) is on GO at 9.30pm, Fried Green Tomatoes is the 9.50pm movie on 7TWO.

The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined):

  1. The X Factor (Seven) — 2.311 million
  2. Seven News — 1.976 million
  3. Nine News — 1.848 million
  4. Underbelly: Badness (Nine) — 1.714 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.608 million
  6. Big Brother (Nine) — 1.576 million
  7. ABC News — 1.551 million
  8. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.443 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.391 million
  10. GCB (Seven) — 1.315 million

The Metro Winners:

  1. The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.598 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.327 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.250 million
  4. Underbelly: Badness (Nine) (8.30pm) — 1.233 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.222 million
  6. Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.213 million
  7. Big Brother (live nominations) (Nine) (8pm) — 1.180 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.178 million
  9. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.109 million
  10. ABC News (7pm) — 1.055 million

The Losers: Ten, again.

Metro News & CA: Nine News won Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Seven news won Adelaide and Perth. ACA won Melbourne and Brisbane. Today Tonight won Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.327 million
  2. Nine News (6pm) — 1.250 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.222 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.178 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.055 million
  6. Australian Story (ABC) (8pm) — 809,000
  7. 7.30  (ABC 1, 7.30 – 8.30 pm) — 758,000
  8. Ten News (5pm) — 749,000
  9. Q&A (ABC) (9.35pm) — 665,000 (+72,000)*
  10. Four Corners (ABC) (8.30pm) — 634,000
  11. Media Watch (ABC) (9.20pm) — 634,000
  12. The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 573,000
  13. The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 471,000
  14. Lateline (ABC) (10.35pm) — 247,000
  15. Ten News (Ten) (10.25pm) — 165,000
  16. SBS News (6.30pm) — 157,000
  17. The Business (ABC) (11.10pm) — 112,000
  18. SBS News (10.30pm) — 50,000
  19. The Drum (News 24) (6pm) — 45,000

*On News 24 simulcast

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 363,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 325,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 165,000
  4. Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 118,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC) (6am) — 54,000 (+21,000)*
  6. Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 31,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 34.3%, from Nine (3) on 28.6%, the ABC (4) was on 18.1%, Ten (3) was on 15.1% and SBS (2) was on 3.9%. Nine leads the week with 33.5%, from Seven on 29.7%, the ABC was on 16.5%, Ten was on 15.5%. Main Channels: Seven won with 26.0% from Nine on 22.4%, ABC 1 was on 14.0%, Ten was on 10.8% and SBS ONE ended with 3.1%. Nine leads the week with 27.9% from Seven on 22.3%, ABC 1 was on 13.0% and Ten was 4th with 10.9%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO won the digitals with 5.3% from GO with 3.9%, 7mate was on 3.0%, ABC 2 was on 2.4%, Gem and Eleven were on 2.3% each; ONE was on 2.0%, News 24 was on 0.9%, SBS TWO was on 0.8% and ABC 3 ended with 0.7%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share of 23.7%. 7TWO leads the week with 4.0% from GO and 7mate on 3.5% each.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 28.5%, from Nine (3) on 23.7%, the ABC (4) was on 15.0%, Ten (3) was on 12.5% and SBS (2) was on 3.3%. The 15 FTA channels had a viewing share of 85.3%. The 10 digital channels share was 20.6% and the five main channels share was 64.7%. Pay TV’s share for the 200 plus channels on Foxtel jumped to 14.7% with the NRL game last night which had a very sold 280,000 viewers. newsroom debuted on W with a reasonable 90,000 viewers.

The top five pay TV channels were:

  1. Fox Sports 2 (3.5%)
  2. TV 1 (2.5%)
  3. Fox 8 (2.3%)
  4. LifeStyle (2.0%)
  5. Fox Footy (1.6%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

  1. NRL: St George v Nth Qld (FS 2) — 284,000
  2. NRL: NFL XTRA (Fox Sports 2) — 125,000
  3. AFL: On The Couch (FF) — 94,000
  4. The Newsroom  — 90,000
  5. AFL: Open Mike (FF) — 86,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 36.0%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 26.9%, the ABC (4) was on 19.3%, SC Ten was 4th with 14.1% and SBS (2) was on 3.7%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 25.9%, from WIN/NBN on 19.4%, ABC 1 was on 14.4 % and SC Ten ended on 9.1%. 7TWO won the digitals with 7.0% from GO on 5.1% and 7TWO with 3.2%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA viewing share last night of 25.3%. WIN/NBN leads the week with 31.4%, from Prime/7Qld on 31.2.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

  1. The X Factor — 712,000
  2. Seven News —  651,000
  3. Nine News — 598,000
  4. Home and Away — 498,000
  5. Underbelly: Badness — 481,000

Major Metro Markets: Seven’s night, except in Melbourne. Seven won overall and the main channels in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Nine won Melbourne. But the ABC beat Ten into third everywhere bar Brisbane. ABC 1 was third overall in all five metro markets. 7TWO had a clean sweep of the digitals. Nine leads Seven and the ABC in Sydney and Melbourne. Nine leads Seven and Ten in Brisbane. Seven leads Nine and the ABC in Adelaide and Perth.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports