Our brokest network enjoyed the spoils of Sophie Monk and The Bachelorette, winning in the metros overall and the main channels. And wasn’t it a dramatic end — Blake marched off, roseless and spewing, Stu still there, but now firing blanks. Is Jarrod the front runner for the finale next week, or is Apollo a dark horse ? The Bachette was second nationally with 1.35 million viewers and tops in the metros with 1.01 million. GoggleBox (1.07 million nationally) was funny last night with good takes on all programs, especially the cliches now roaming at large on SBS’s Food Safari — Earth.

So Ten won, Seven was second, Nine was third and the ABC was left right out. In regional markets Seven News was tops with 526,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 447,000, Home and Away was third with 389,000, then the 5.30 part of The Chase Australia with 361,000 and The Bachelorette was fifth with 332,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Ten (28.8%)
  2. Seven (26.8%)
  3. Nine (23.3%)
  4. ABC (13.9%)
  5. SBS (7.4%)

Network main channels:

  1. Ten (23.5%)
  2. Seven (18.2%)
  3. Nine (16.6%)
  4. ABC (8.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.4%)
  2. ABC 2 (3.4%)
  3. Gem (3.1%)
  4. ONE (2.9%)
  5. 7flix, Eleven (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.444 million
  2. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 1.351 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.331 million
  4. Nine/NBN News — 1.128 million
  5. Nine/NBN News — 1.107 million
  6. Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 1.074 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.048 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.034 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 983,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 880,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 1.019 million

Losers: Anyone who hasn’t enjoyed The Bachelorette and last night’s Gogglebox which just about summed up the current state of Australian TV and sentiment

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 918,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 884,000
  3. Nine News — 856,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 818,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 732,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 662,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 615,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 421,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 404,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 394,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 496,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 433,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 156,000 + 96,000 on News 24) — 252,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 201,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 176,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 136,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 55,000
  2. Shimmer and Shine  (Nick Jr) — 50,000
  3. Grand Designs (LifeStyle) — 47,000
  4. Family Guy (Fox8) — 47,000
  5. DC Legends of Tomorrow (Fox8) — 43,000