The second T20 game between Australia and India is on tonight and the third is on Nine on Sunday night. There’s tennis on Seven night, tomorrow and Sunday night with the Men’s final. Ten starts I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and then segues to the remake of the first episode of the new series of The X Files. On Monday night Seven returns Home and Away with Brax back, briefly to give the ratings a goosing after the losses late last year. Then My Kitchen Rules starts for 2016, so lock your doors and watch something else, like the ABC with its usual Monday night strength back, from Australian Story (and Leigh Sales on 7.30) to Four Corners, Media Watch and Q&A (under control of the news division). Nine starts Australia’s Got Talent, which is what’s called in TV a bit of a Hail Mary programming after it died on Nine two years ago and on Seven the year before that. It is a sign of Nine’s desperation (and why didn’t they start the year with The Block, or did that second series last year exhaust the audience for the time being, as it appeared from the ratings?). In other words, the 2016 ratings battle starts on Sunday night.

Oh, last night, why do you ask? Well, Seven won as easily as Novak Djokovic disposed of Roger Federer last night in their Australian Open tennis semi. Nationally, more than 1.6 million people watched Seven’s night of tennis of which that match was the centrepiece. More than 1.22 million watched in the metros. And nothing else mattered.

US update: With season four of House of Cards debuting on March 4, Netflix has signed up for a fifth series in 2017. But the writer/creator of the first four series, Beau Willimon won’t be on the new series. He’s leaving. From US reports he sounds a bit ground down.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.2%)
  2. Nine (25.0%)
  3. Ten (19.0%)
  4. ABC (18.6%)
  5. SBS (5.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.1%)
  2. Nine (18.3%)
  3. ABC (13.6%)
  4.  Ten (13.1%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (5.o%)
  2. Gem (3.7%)
  3. 7mate (3.2%)
  4. GO (3.1%)
  5. ONE (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Tennis, Australian Open Day 11 (Seven) — 1.664 million
  2. Nine News — 1.486 million
  3. Seven News — 1.067 million
  4. ABC News — 1.056 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.034 million
  6. Australia’s Mega Ships (Nine) — 1.015 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 987,000
  8. Hot Seat (Nine) — 845,000
  9. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 819,000 million
  10. 7.30 Summer (ABC) — 789,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Tennis, Australian Open Day 11 (Seven) — 1.227 million
  2. Nine News — 1.062 million
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.034 million

Losers: Tennis dislikers and Roger Federer fans, of which there are many.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.062 million
  2. Nine News 6.30 — 1.034 million
  3. Seven News — 829,000
  4. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 819,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 806,000
  6. ABC News – 740,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 530,000
  8. 7.30 Summer (ABC) — 519,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 498,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 445,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 325,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 309,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC 1,  90,000 + 50,000 on News 24) — 140,000
  4. Mornings Summer (Nine) — 122,000
  5. Studio 10 (Ten) — 81,000

Top five pay TV channels:  (2.80%)

  1. LifeStyle  (2.4%)
  2. TVHITS,Fox 8  (2.3%)
  3. UKTV (1.9%)
  4. A&E (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Grand Designs (LifeStyle) – 80,000
  2. Dance Moms (LifeStyle You) — 66,000
  3. Lewis (13th Street) — 66,000
  4. Chicago Fire (SoHo – 57,000
  5. Paw Patrol (Nick Jr) – 56,000

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