Oh, no, it was Monday night and Seven let The Beast (AKA My Kitchen Rules) out of its cage and it ate The Block, again. It gnawed gently on the ABC’s worthy line up and SBS’s modest supplications. Seven won big in metro markets and bigger in the regionals, and scooped up the major demos. My Kitchen Rules had 2.454 million national viewers and well over 1.7 million in the metros and a stack of viewers in the regions.

The million dollar winning attempts on Million Dollar Minute saw Seven News boosted past night in the five metro markets (in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, but not Sydney, or Brisbane, or nationally where Nine News won by around 3,000 people). My Kitchen Rules again sees another attempt at the big bucks tonight with Andrew Skarbek who has now survived 19 eps and has another crack at the mill (it’s actually 1,016,000 which is the biggest pot of loot ever up for grabs in an Australian TV game show). My Kitchen Rules had 1.023 million national viewers last night, Nine’s Hot Seat with Eddie McGuire had 855,000.

Ten debuted the remake of The Odd Couple, on of the classic US sitcoms of all time from 7.30 to 8.30pm. It averaged 961,000 for episode 1 and 886,000 for episode 2. They are solid figures. But will the audience return next week, and the week after? That’s always the key with overseas programs of any genre these days.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (33.5%)
  2. Nine (24.7%)
  3. Ten (19.1%)
  4. ABC (18.3%)
  5. SBS (4.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (25.3%)
  2. Nine (18.7%)
  3. ABC (14.6%)
  4. Ten (10.1?%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.6%)

Top digital channels: 

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

Top 10 national programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) — 2.454 million
  2. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.501 million
  3. Nine News — 1.441 million
  4. Seven News –1.438 million
  5. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.331 million
  6. ABC News — 1.275 million
  7. The Block (Nine) — 1.233 million
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 1.184 million
  9. Australian Story (ABC) — 1.168 million
  10. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.104 million

Top metro programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) — 1.713 million
  2. Seven News — 1.125 million
  3. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.096 million
  4. Nine News — 1.020 million

Losers: The remake of the Odd Couple on Ten. Call me old, call me nostalgic, but Matthew Perry is not Jack Klugman or Jack Lemmon, or Walter Matthau. He is just not a good actor. They were good actors. OK! Classics should be left in the vault!Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.125 million
  2. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 1.096 million
  3. Nine News — 1.020 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 994,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 935,000
  6.  ABC News  – 878,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 808,000
  8. Australian Story (ABC) — 801,000
  9. Four Corners (ABC) — 682,000
  10. Media Watch (ABC) — 632,00

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 323,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 288,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 142,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 1,  93,000 + 39,000 on News 24) — 138,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 119,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 67,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports 1 (3.6%)
  2. Fox8  (2.9%)
  3. Arena (2.0%)
  4. UKTV (1.9%)
  5. TVHits, Disney Jr (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Easts v Penrith (Fox Sports 1) — 264,000
  2. Monday Night With Matty Johns (Fox Sports 1) — 139,000
  3. EPL: Liverpool v Man United (Fox Sports 4,final 30 mins) — 83,000
  4. The Walking Dead (Fx) – 83,000
  5. Judge Judy (Arena) — 60,000

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