(Image: MAFS)
(Image: MAFS)

It’s starting to feel like a re-run of 2022, or in the worlds of the legendary American baseball player and manager Yogi Berra: “It’s déjà vu all over again.” 

MAFS dominated the night with 1.056 million nationally (despite being just plain grubby), which is down from its launch figure of 1.113 million. Australian Idol languishes on Seven at 657,000 (10th nationally…), but that was down from the 673,000 return on Monday night. Australian Survivor on Ten brought in 526,000, down from 579,000 on Monday.

It is so predictable. Contrast the grubby antics on MAFS and its cast of actors with what you see on Better Date Than Never on the ABC (327,000). Fewer viewers but real emotions and passions.

Regional Top 5: Seven News, 501,000; Seven News 6.30, 484,000; Home and Away, 292,000; 7pm ABC News, 284,000; A Current Affair, 283,000. 

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (33.9%)
  2. Seven (26.6%)
  3. Ten (16.3%)
  4. ABC (15.2%)
  5. SBS (8.1%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (26.3%)
  2. Seven (19.2%)
  3. Ten (10.5%)
  4. ABC (9.9%)
  5. SBS (5.0%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.3%)
  2. 7mate (2.8%)
  3. 10 Peach, ABC Kids/TV Plus (2.6%)
  4. GO, 10 Bold (2.5%)
  5. 10 Peach (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News 6.30 — 1.349 million
  2. Seven News — 1.346 million
  3. MAFS (Nine) — 1.056 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.015 million
  5. Nine News — 983,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 943,000
  7. 7pm ABC News — 839,000
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 784,000
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 721,000
  10. Australian Idol (Seven) — 657,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News 6.30 — 865,000
  2. Seven News — 846,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 776,000
  4. Nine News — 672,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 660,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 555,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 442,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 276,000
  9. Ten News First — 256,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm — 164,000

Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 379,000/223,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 291,000/201,000
  3. ABC News Breakfast — 231,000/149,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 226,000
  5. Morning News (ABC) — 182,000
  6. Today Extra (Nine) — 169,000
  7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 29,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

  1. The Bolt Report, Credlin (Sky News) — 47,000
  2. Paul Murray (Sky News) — 44,000
  3. Chris Kenny Tonight (Sky News) — 34,000
  4. Jeopardy (Fox Classics), Escape to the Country (LifeStyle) — 31,000