Another night of differing results from metro and regional markets. In the metros Seven won a narrow race in total people, Nine won narrowly in the main channels. But in the regions, Seven was a big winner in total people and the main channels. Ten had some very sweet younger demos with The Bachelor and the fading Offspring. Nine also scored some nice demos with The Block and Married At First Sight (and 25 to 54s).

Seven had the oldies with Border Security and The Force, especially in the regions where both programs — plus solid figures for the weakening Durrells, The Chase Australia and Home and Away again bolstered weaker metro figures (proportionately). Seven News from 6 to 7 pm again topped the metro and regional markets, while Nine News was a bit weaker last night.

But the stars last night were the ABC duo: Gruen at 8.30 and Anh Do’s Brush With Fame at 8pm. They had 1.263 million and 1.251 million viewers respectively nationally and were the fifth and sixth programs nationally as well. They had more viewers than The Block on Nine (1.133 million), The Bachelor on Ten (1.111 million), Offspring on Ten (870,000) and Married At First Sight on Nine (1.104 million).

Nine and Ten will boast their programs had more viewers in the younger demos, which they did, but the fact that the ABC and Seven with their older skewing programs (The Force with 1.203 million and Border Security with 1.219 million) managed to attract more viewers tells us how weak the younger skewing programs on Nine and Ten are to their core viewers.

Offspring is a prime example: its metro audience last night was 638,000, while its regional audience was just 232,000. It is dying slowly on air and this is why Ten is now flogging next week’s episode with the tag line, “Secrets, Lies and Betrayal”. It sounds very “Jumping The Shark” based on a dinner party where all sorts of admissions emerge. Very soapy and very much The Young and The Restless.

In the regions, Seven News was again tops with 624,000 people, Home and Away was next with 515,000, Seven News/Today Tonight was third with 498,000, The Force was fouth with 490,000 and Border Security was fifth with 488,000.

Today with 327,000 again won metro breakfast from Sunrise with 293,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (26.7%)
  2. Nine (26.5%)
  3. Ten (21.5%)
  4. ABC (18.3%)
  5. SBS (7.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (19.5%)
  2. Seven (19.0%)
  3. Ten (15.7%)
  4. ABC (12.9%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.6%)
  2. GO (3.4%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.2%)
  4. ONE (3.1%)
  5. Eleven (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.736 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.534 million
  3. Nine News — 1.283 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.267 million
  5. Gruen (ABC) — 1.263 million
  6. Anh Do’s Brush With Fame (ABC) — 1.251 million
  7. Border Security (Seven) — 1.219 million
  8. The Force (Seven) — 1.203 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.183 million
  10. The Bachelor (Ten) — 1.111 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.117 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.036 million

Losers: Offspring is looking strained for Ten. The Durrells for Seven.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.112 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.036 million
  3. Nine News — 933,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 931,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 824,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC) — 745,000
  7. ABC News – 737,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 702,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 490,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 444,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 327,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 293,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 168,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC, 98,000 + 62,000 on News 24) — 160,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 118,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 82,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 189,000
  2. Gold: On Par With Paul Gow (Fox Sports 3) — 96,000
  3. The Simpsons (Fox8) – 79,000
  4. The Recruit (Fox8) — 76,000
  5. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 75,000

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