Seven’s night, easily, as Nine went without The Voice and the ploy of running the free-to-air premiere of the first part of the last Harry Potter movie didn’t really work. Seven’s House Rules produced a reveal, and it dominated the night with 2.395 million national/ 1.550 million metro/ 845,000 regional viewers. Nine’s The Block was well beaten with 1.950 million national/ 1.369 million metro/ 581,000 regional viewers. That’s a winning margin nationally of 445,000, the highest so far between the two reno programs. House Rules’ win in regional markets was dominating last night and is why Seven also had a huge winning margin in regional markets to complete its strongest night for some weeks.

ABC1’s Australian Story at 8pm averaged 1.317 million national/ 844,000 metro/ 473,000 regional viewers and again underlined why ABC news and current affairs programs are streets ahead of their commercial rivals in finding and bringing to air very good, news-making stories. Last night’s episode was no exception. A Brisbane coroner has to report in August on the deaths of two men in a plane accident, but from what was shown last night, the aviation industry regulator, Casa, has a lot to answer for, on top of the Pel Air jet story, where Casa is up to its neck in doubt and poor regulation.

Now a viewing warning for tonight. Teary penultimate episode alert for Packed To The Rafters, which finishes next Tuesday night. Tonight’s episode is a tissue special. And at last, the most offensive program of 2013, Celebrity Apprentice, exits Nine tonight in 90 excruciating minutes from 8.30pm. Unfortunately, we can’t win asylum a foreign country to avoid this pap, so just don’t watch. Ten starts another hyped US drama tonight at 8.30pm — Under The Dome (that’s how I feel about being trapped in the same country as Celebrity Apprentice). UTD hopefully will do better than The Following on Nine, or Last Resort on Seven (and another US series coming to Seven, Red Widow) or The Americans on Ten. And speaking of The Americans, it had another gangbuster night on Ten at 9.30pm last night — 307,000 national/ 218,000 metro/ 89,000 regional viewers. That just about sums up what Australian viewers think of US dramas these days.

House Rules makes an appearance next Sunday night and then the final is on Monday night, with Red Widow starting after that (it was ended in the US by ABC network in May after 10 weeks on air).

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (34.1%)
  2. Nine (28.7%)
  3. ABC (18.8%)
  4. Ten (14.9%)
  5. SBS (3.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (25.8%)
  2. Nine (21.7%)
  3. ABC1 (15.1%)
  4. Ten (10.2%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.0%)

Top five digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.6%)
  2. GO (4.2%0
  3. 7mate (3.6%)
  4. Eleven (3.0%)
  5. Gem (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) – 2.395 million
  2. Seven News — 2.143 million
  3. Nine News — 2.056 million
  4. The Block  (Nine) – 1.950 million
  5. Revenge (Seven) — 1.706 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.584 million
  7. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.521 million
  8. ABC1 News — 1.376 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.342 million
  10. Australian Story  (ABC1) — 1.317 million

Top metro programs:

  1. House Rules (Seven) — 1.540 million
  2. Nine News — 1.419 million
  3. Seven News — 1.403 million
  4. The Block (Nine) — 1.369 million
  5. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.206 million
  6.  A Current Affair >(Nine) — 1.132 million
  7. Revenge (Seven) — 1.127 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.007 million

Losers: MasterChef Australia — 905,000 national/663,000 metro/ 232,000 regional viewers. Ten’s 8.30pm special — The Biggest Loser Biggest makeovers — flopped, with 693,000 national/ 451,000 metro/ 245,000 regional. Weak, just weak.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.419 million
  2. Seven News — 1.403 million
  3. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.206 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.132 million
  5. ABC1 News  – 929,000
  6. Australian Story (ABC 1) — 844,000
  7. Four Corners (ABC1) — 843,000
  8. Ten News — 812,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC1) — 796,000
  10. 7.30 (ABC1) — 776,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 361,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 327,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 53,000 + 30,000 on News 24

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports 1  (3.4)%
  2. Fox 8 (2.8%)
  3. TV1 (2.3%)
  4. LifeStyle , Fox Footy (2.1%)
  5. UKTV, Sky News  (1.5%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Gold Coast v Melbourne (Fox Sports 1) – 265,000
  2. Monday Night With Matty Johns  (Fox Sports 1) – 146,000
  3. AFL:On The Couch (Fox Footy ) – 136,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 124,000
  5. AFL: Open Mike (Fox Footy) – 124,000

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