Seven won total people, Nine won the main channels and all the networks did well in the demos, depending how you define prime time. And the ABC managed to lead the night for a while from around 9pm.The top programs in the metros and nationally were all news and current affairs from 6 to 7.30pm on Seven and Nine. 

While House Rules (1.16 million national viewers) had more viewers than Masterchef (1.12 million) overall, it was a very different story in the metros where Masterchef with 863,000 viewers thrashed House Rules on 714,000.  Nine’s double eps of Young Sheldon averaged 995,000 nationally across the hour from 7.30pm — viewer numbers slumped by more than 20% for the really boring Britain’s Got Talent that followed from 8.30pm. The ABC’s Home Delivery (839,000, 8pm), Gruen (983,000, 8.30pm) and The Weekly (841,000 nationally 9.10pm) stood out by actually being entertaining.

In the regions another parade for Seven with the 6pm News on top with 592,000, then Seven News/TT with 466,000, House Rules was third with 449, Home and Away was a close fouth with 448,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia was fifth with 373,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (27.8%)
  2. Nine (25.6%)
  3. Ten (21.1%)
  4. ABC (18.8%)
  5. SBS (6.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (18.8%)
  2. Seven (17.7%)
  3. Ten (15.8%)
  4. ABC (13.3%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.4%)
  2. 7mate (3.2%)
  3. ABC Kids/Comedy (3.1%)
  4. GO (3.0%)
  5. ONE (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.679 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.497 million
  3. Nine/NBN News — 1.319 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30pm  — 1.289 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.246 million
  6. House Rules (Seven) — 1.163 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.146 million
  8. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.128 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.045 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.020 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.087 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.031 million

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.087 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.031 million
  3. Nine News —979,000
  4. Nine News 6.30pm — 956,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 965,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 709,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 618,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) —599,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News —440,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 380,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 461,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 349,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  ABC News) — 225,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 217,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 151,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 94,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Selling Houses Australia (LifeStyle) — 173,000
  2. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 76,000
  3. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 61,000
  4. Grand Designs Australia (LifeStyle) — 58,000
  5. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 52,000