No My Kitchen Rules on Seven and The Voice dominates and Nine wins — but nothing like Nine imagined it would. Seven still managed to win Adelaide and Perth because The Voice is just not as popular as on the east coast.

The Voice had 2.753 million national/2.020 million metro/ 733,000 regional viewers. Celebrity Splash (which is really a variation of Dancing With the Stars transposed to a swimming pool, or Dancing on Ice, and just as forgettable) had 1.864 million national/ 1.315 million metro/ 554,000 regional viewers. That’s OK but nothing to really boast about.

The Voice’s national figure is well shy of 3 million viewers, which would have been Nine’s hope with MKR out of the way. But The Voice was clearly the only standout program last night on TV. Nine’s House Husbands (1.650 million national/ 1.162 million metro/ 488,000 regional) easily beat Seven’s fading beauty, Revenge (1.450 million national/ 1.033 million metro/ 417,000 regional).

Ten’s The Biggest Loser was again that, with 773,000 national viewers/ 526,000 metro/ 247,000 regional. Can of Worms was a bigger disaster (See Losers, below). Kudos to ABC1’s Australian Story on Peter Fox, the courageous NSW detective chief inspector who blew the whistle on the s-x crimes of the Catholic Church in the Hunter Valley last last year and forced the NSW government, and then the federal government to begin landmark inquiries. The program was watched by 1.207 million national/ 811,000 metro/ 396,000 and deserved a lot more.

It made you wonder why he didn’t get Australian of the Year. The story also confirmed the miserable way Fox was treated by higher-ups in the police force, especially in the Hunter region. That alone deserves an inquiry. There was a nice juxtaposition between Australian Story and the story at the end of 7.30 on the day’s hearing in the Victorian Parliament’s inquiry into s-x abuse with evidence of serial offences in the Ballarat area, which were never passed on to police. Australian Story again underlined why only it (because of its format) can give people a real voice in telling their stories.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (34.4%)
  2. Seven (31.8%)
  3. ABC (17.1%)
  4. Ten (13.1%)
  5. SBS (4.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (28.4%)
  2. Seven (25.1%)
  3. ABC1 (12.9%)
  4. Ten (8.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.5%)

Top five digital channels:

  1. 7TWO (4.1%)
  2. GO (3.2%)
  3. Eleven (2.7%)
  4. 7mate (2.6%)
  5. ABC2 ( 2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Voice  (Nine) – 2.753 million
  2. Seven News –– 2.056 million
  3. Nine News — 1.986 million
  4. Celebrity Splash  (Seven) – 1.864 million
  5. House Husbands (Nine) — 1.650 million
  6. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.475 million
  7. Revenge (Seven) — 1.450 million
  8. Home and Away  (Seven) — 1.428 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.426 million
  10. ABC1 News –– 1.358 million

Top metro programs:

  1. The Voice (Nine) — 2.020 million
  2. Nine News — 1.359 million
  3. Seven News — 1.352 million
  4. Celebrity Splash (Seven) — 1.315 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.208 million
  6. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.171 million
  7. House Husbands (Nine) — 1.162 million
  8. Revenge (Seven) — 1.033 million

Losers: Ten, of course, with the real disaster  Can of Worms at 8.30pm — 498,000 national/ 344,000 metro/ 154,000 regional viewers. It is rotten TV, so far away from what the first series promised it is tragic. Bring back Good News Week, it was funny at times, and Paul McDermott was a subversive host and good at it! 

News and current affairs:

  1. Nine News – 1.359 million
  2. Seven News  – 1.352 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.208 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.171 million
  5. ABC1 News — 890,000
  6. Australian Story (ABC1) — 811,000
  7. Ten News– 721,000
  8. 7.30  (ABC1) – 706,000 million
  9. Media Watch (ABC1) — 648,000
  10. Four Corners (ABC1) — 645,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 386,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 369,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 40,000 + 31,000 on News 24

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8 – 3.8%
  2. Fox Sports 1 — 2.8%
  3. TV1 – 2.0%
  4. Fox Footy, UKTV, LifeStyle – 1.9%
  5. LifeStyle You — 1.5%.

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Penrith v Parramatta (Fox Sports 1 ) – 206,000
  2. AFL: On the Couch  (Fox Footy) – 128,000
  3. AFL: 360  (Fox Footy) – 126,000
  4. AFL: Open Mike  (Fox Footy) – 124,000
  5. Game of Thrones  (showcase) – 121,000

Tonight:  Foreign Correspondent on ABC 1. Dateline and Insight on SBS ONE. NCIS on Ten and The Biggest Loser, Packed To The Rafters on Seven (how will it go without MKR as the lead-in and Celebrity Splash instead?). Nine has The Voice and then the return on Celebrity Apprentice (which will need The Voice as the lead-in given reports that this series is a bigger load of tosh than in previous years). In fact tonight will be the battle of the wannabes and maybes on Seven and Nine.

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