The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Another good night for Seven, another terrible night for Ten (and a good one for the ABC, at Ten’s expense). And it was another night where Nine got a further reminder that the audience is awake to its tricks and won’t put up with them.

That comment was prompted by the return of the 70’s stalwart Dallas to the screen on Nine at 9pm: just 545,000 people watched in metro market and only 789,000 nationally. It was followed by the first Big Brother: Confidential at 10.10 pm — it was watched by just 382,000 people (492,000 nationally). Pap like that deserves to remain unwatched. Dallas proves, once again, that a classic can’t be remade on TV and succeed like the original. Nine’s The Farmer Wants a Wife slipped to 936,000 in metro markets and 1.4 million nationally.

Seven’s The X Factor averaged 1.478 million metro viewers and more than 2.1 million nationally for another strong night.

Ten’s Puberty Blues shed viewers from last week and fell to 843,000 from 8.30pm in metro markets and 1.144 million nationally. Still respectable, unlike other programs in the schedule. I Will Survive dipped on its second outing to 427,000 metro and 604,000 national viewers. Not promising.

Gruen Plant averaged 906,000 metro and 1.236 million national viewers. It was OK, but the discussion of the Pussy Riot story from Russia verged on the inconsequential with only one panellist, Russel Howcroft, really understanding its importance.

Tonight: The Footy Shows on Nine and Ten. Seven has the split round from 7.30pm to 8.30pm then Mrs Brown’s Boys. Nine has Big Brother as well and another The Farmer Wants a Wife. ABC 1 has another repeat of Midsomer Murders, while 7TWO repeats Lewis at 8.30pm. SBS has its foodie programs from 7.30pm.  Poor old Ten has another episode of I Will Survive. Unfortunately, after last night, that might not be the case next week.

The top 10 national programs (Metro and Regional Combined): Nine’s The Farmer Wants A Wife was coded separately for metro and regional ratings and not combined as it was last week. Together it averaged 1.37 million viewers last night which was enough to make it number 9.

  1. The X Factor (Seven) — 2.153 million
  2. Seven News — 1.764 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.705 million
  4. Nine News — 1.620 million
  5. Criminal Minds (Seven) — 1.598 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.523 million
  7. ABC News — 1.487 million
  8. Big Brother (Nine) — 1.394 million
  9. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.359 million
  10. Gruen Planet (ABC 1) — 1.236 million

The Metro Winners:

  1. The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.478 million
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.230 million
  3. Criminal Minds (Seven) (9pm) — 1.121 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.114 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.088 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.084 million
  7. Nine News (6pm) — 1.076 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.062 million
  9. Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.031 million

The Losers: Ten, again (except for Puberty Blues). Nine for Big Brother, Big Brother: Confidential and the failed attempt to bring Dallas back from the dead.

Metro News & CA: Seven News won Sydney, lost Melbourne, won the rest. A Current Affair won Sydney and Melbourne, lost the rest to Today Tonight.

  1. Seven News (6pm) — 1.230 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.114 million
  3. ABC News (7pm) — 1.088 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.084 million
  5. Nine News (6pm) — 1.076 million
  6. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 807,000
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 708,000
  8. The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 578,000
  9. The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 454,000
  10. Lateline (ABC 1, 10.45 – 11.20 pm) — 213,000
  11. SBS News (6.30pm) — 192,000
  12. Ten News (Ten) (10.30pm) — 156,000
  13. The Business (ABC) (11.20pm) — 107,000
  14. SBS News (10.30pm) — 88,000
  15. The Drum (News 24) (6pm) — 41,000

In the morning: Yesterday saw the best figures so far for News Breakfast on ABC 1 and News 24, a total of 92,000 viewers from around 7am to 9.30am. Ten’s Breakfast has been left well behind and yesterday it averaged 30,000 for the 90 minutes it’s on air. Weak, weak, weak.

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 359,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 296,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 165,000
  4. Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 139,000
  5. News Breakfast (ABC) (7am) — 68,000 (+24,000)*
  6. Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 30,000

*News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 33.4%, from Nine (3) on 25.0%, the ABC (4) was on 18.7%, Ten (3) was 4th with 17.7% and SBS (2) ended on 5.3%. Seven leads the week with 31.8% from Nine on 29.1%, the ABC on 17.2% and Ten on 16.5%. Main Channels: Seven won with a share of 24.6% from Nine on 19.4%, ABC 1 was on 13.9%, Ten was on 11.7% and SBS ONE was on 4.6%. Seven leads the week with 24.1% from Nine on 23.4%, ABC 1 on 13.2% and Ten on 11.3%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO won with 4.9% from 7mate on 3.9%, Eleven was on 3.4%, GO was on 3.1%, ABC 2 was on 3.0%, ONE ended on 2.6%, Gem, 2.4%, ABC 3, 1.0%, News 24, 0.8% and SBS TWO, 0.7%. The 10 digital channels FTA share last night was 26.0%. 7TWO leads the week with 4.2%, from 7mate on 3.6% and GO on 3.3%.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 28.1%, from Nine (3) on 21.0%, the ABC (4) was on 15.7%, Ten (3) was 4th with 14.9% and SBS (2) ended on 4.5%. The 15 FTA channels share was 86.4% last night with the 10 digital channels’ share of 21.65 and the five main channels share, 64.8%. The 200 plus channels on Foxtel gave Pay TV a total share last night of 13.6%.

The top five pay TV channels were:

  1. Fox 8 (31.%)
  2. LifeStyle (2.9%)
  3. TV1 (2.3%)
  4. Discovery (1.8%)
  5. Fox Classic (1.6%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

  1. The Simpsons (Fox 8) — 82,000
  2. Location, Location, Location, Australia (LifeStyle) — 82,000
  3. Family Guy (Fox 8) — 74,000
  4. Deadliest Catch (Discovery) — 71,000
  5. AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 71,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 35.4%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 27.0%, the ABC (4) was on 16.3%, SC Ten was on 15.9% and SBS (2) ended with 5.3%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 23.3% from WIN/NBN on 21.0%, ABC 1 was on 11.3% and SC Ten, 9.4%,. 7TWO won the digitals with 7.2%, from 7mate on 4.9% and Eleven on 3.7%. The Ten digital channels FTA share last night was a high 30.5%. Prime/7Qld leads the week on 33.4% with WIN/NBN on 28.5%, the ABC is on 17.3% and SC Ten is 4th with 15.2%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

  1. The X Factor — 675,000
  2. A Current Affair — 620,000
  3. Nine News — 543,000
  4. Seven News — 533,000
  5. Criminal Minds — 480,000

Major Metro Markets: A sort of repeat of Tuesday night, except ten was down and the ABC made hay, again. For the second week in a row Ten is heading for 4th with the ABC and ABC 1 in third spot in most markets and nationally. Seven had a clean sweep, nationally and overall. Ten was third in Adelaide only and it was a joint third in Sydney with the ABC. The ABC was also third in Melbourne and Brisbane. In Perth it was a queer result overall, Seven from Ten and Nine. But in the main channels it was Seven from ABC 1 and Nine as Ten dropped to 4th. The digitals were strong here. ABC 1 was third in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. In the digitals it was 7TWO on Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, while 7mate got up on Perth. Seven leads Nine and the ABC in Sydney and Perth where Ten shares third with the ABC. Nine still leads Seven and the ABC in Melbourne. Ten is still a weak third in Brisbane and Adelaide.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports