Seven’s night in metro and regionals markets with The Voice out of Nine’s line up. Ten also had a better night in metro and regional markets as well, with MasterChef up and dragging up other programs such as NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles. The ABC was left behind in fourth spot. But as well as MasterChef did with 1.228 million national / 934,000 metro / 294,000 regional viewers, it should have really cracked the million viewer mark in metro markets with The Voice out of the running last night. House Rules stood out on a night after the big weekly reveal when its audience usually falls. House Rules had 2.132 million national / 1.313 million metro / 819,000 regional viewers. It is getting very strong support from regional viewers.

When Love Comes To Town (Nine, from 7.30) bombed and deservedly so. It had 917,000 national/ 636,000 metro/ 281,000 regional viewers (who show better judgement than metro viewers) and is a waste of valuable TV time. At least we saw a young woman quit the program last night and its tacky idea of carting a bunch of women (who agreed to the idea, it must be said, but for their 15 minutes of fame?) from town to town to see if they appealed to a couple of local blokes. Monica Hilbrick quit because she wants her love life to be her own and not for the producers of the program to determine, or TV viewers. If you or I carted a bunch of women (or blokes for that matter) around Australian towns and cities for people to ogle and chat up, there would be outrage and no doubt some legal beagling by the authorities. It has nothing to do with love, much like its predecessor, Farmer Wants A Wife, also on Nine and which also bombed after viewers tired of its contrived nature. Ten’s The Bachelor is in the same genre and is just as tacky.

And, thanks Seven, now we add Bali to the list of things to worry about in Australia, besides snakes, spiders, sharks and crocs, not to mention aggressive marsupials. Seven’s killer Bali special last night was a mass audition for the Darwin awards (that’s where humans do things as part of natural selection). What Really Happens In Bali had 1.660 million national / 1.058 million metro / 602,000 regional viewers. Next do Thailand and its killer festivals. It was fourth most watched program in the country last night, eighth in the metros and a very high second in the regions. Nine News won Sydney by a huge 122,000 and Melbourne by a smaller 70,000 (Seven has closed the gap there in recent weeks) and lost Brisbane to Seven News by 54,000. Nine says its Perth news had its biggest audience (123,000) since last July. It still lost to Seven by 97,000 viewers.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.1%)
  2. Nine (29.2%)
  3. Ten (19.4%)
  4. ABC (15.5%)
  5. SBS (5.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (23.6%)
  2. Nine (20.1%)
  3. Ten (14.8%)
  4. ABC1  (11.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.9%)

Top digital channels: 

  1. GO (4.3%)
  2. 7TWO, 7mate (4.3%)
  3. Gem (2.6)
  4. ABC 2, Eleven (2.5%)
  5. One (2.1%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. House Rules  (Seven) – 2.132 million
  2. Nine News — 1.765 million
  3. The Big Bang Theory  (Nine) — 1.757 million
  4. What Really happens In Bali (Seven) — 1.660 million
  5. Seven News — 1.637 million
  6. The Big Bang Theory repeat (Nine) — 1.529 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.438 million
  8.  A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.247 million
  9. MasterChef Australia (Ten) — 1.228 million
  10. ABC News — 1.175 million

Top metro programs:

  1. House Rules  (Seven) – 1.312 million
  2. Seven News — 1.285 million
  3. The Big Bang Theory  (Nine) — 1.276 million
  4. Nine News — 1.232 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.148 million
  6. Seven News / Today Tonight — 1.143 million
  7. The Big Bang Theory repeat (Nine) — 1.113 million
  8. What Really happens In Bali (Seven) — 1.057 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.047 million

Losers: When Love comes To Town on Nine. Tragic and tacky.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.285 million
  2. Nine News — 1.232 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.148 million
  4. Seven News / Today Tonight — 1.143 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.047 million
  6. ABC News — 822,000
  7. Ten Eyewitness News — 726,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 695,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC1) — 640,000
  10. Foreign Correspondent (ABC1) — 536,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 371,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 293,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 167,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC1,  79,000 + 35,000 on News 24) — 114,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 107,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 59,000

Top pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8  (2.3%)
  2. TVHITS!, LifeStyle  (2.2%)
  3. Sky News (2.0%)
  4. Fox Sports 1 (1.8%)
  5. Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top pay TV programs:

  1. Wentworth  (SoHo) – 99,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy ) – 91,000
  3. Back Page (Fox Sports 1) — 75,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 72,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox 8) – 64,000

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