The Winners: Two and a Half Men topped the most watched list with the fresh 7.30pm episode averaging 1.386 million (same old, same old!). Seven News was second with 1.355 million (and lost again in Sydney, and also in Melbourne). The Mentalist on Nine at 8.30pm, 1.286 million. Today Tonight on Seven at 6.30pm, 1.264 million. Nine News, 1.244 million was 5th. My Kitchen Rules at 7.30pm on Seven averaged 1.194 million. A Current Affair averaged 1.180 million in 7th and The Big Bang Theory averaged 1.168 million. Two and a Half Men averaged 1.165 million in repeat at 7pm for Nine and beat Seven’s Home and Away with 1.012 million. 11th was Home and Away with 1 million viewers, its best effort so far this year, and because Kev Rudd was on? Australian Story averaged 895,000 for the ABC at 8pm. Brothers and Sisters, 848,000 for Seven at 9.30pm.

The Losers: Desperate Housewives: 935,000 for Seven at 8.30pm. It’s fading. The Good Wife on Sunday nights on Ten is a better, more update idea. Good News Week on Ten with 1 million viewers did better. Four Corners, 577,000. An interesting buy-in, but uninteresting to Australian viewers. Media Watch, 538,000, suffered, which was a pity because it stuck it up ABC TV for showing a dodgy doco.

News & CA: Seven News won nationally, but lost Sydney and Melbourne to Nine News, continuing the trend of last week. Today Tonight beat ACA, which won Sydney and Melbourne. Seven News and TT won Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth by enough to give it the national lead. Ten News averaged 864,000, the late News/Sports Tonight, 240,000. The 7 pm ABC News, 973,000, the 7.30 Report, 732,000. Lateline, 228,000, Lateline Business, 96,000. SBS News at 6.30pm, 166,000, 161,000 for the late edition. 7am Sunrise, 353,000, narrowly over the games-riddled Today with 347,000.

The Stats:

FTA: Nine won with a 6pm to midnight All People combined overnight share of 30.5%, from Seven with 29.1%, Ten on 19.0%, the ABC with 15.6% and SBS with 5.8%. Nine won Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Seven won Adelaide and Perth. Nine leads the week, 31.3% with Seven on 27.8%.

Digital: A big swing from, Monday with 7TWO jumping to average 4.4%, from Nine’s GO on 2.4, ABC 2 was on 1.8%, Ten’s ONE and ABC 3 tied with half a per cent each and SBS TWO finished 0.4%. The six FTA digital channels had a combined overnight share of 10.9%. GO leads the week so far with 3.5% from 7TWO with 3.1%.

Main Channels: Nine won with a combined overnight share of 28.0% from Seven with 24.7%, Ten on 19.0%, the ABC on 13.3% and SBS ONE on 5.3%. Nine leads this battle with 27.8% from Seven with 24.9%.

With Pay TV: Nine won a combined overnight share of 25.2%, from Seven with 24.1%, Ten with 15.7%, Pay TV on 15.1%, the ABC with 12.9% and SBS, 4.8%. The 11 FTA channels had a combined overnight share of 84.9%, the 100 plus Pay TV channels were on 15.1%.

Regionally: Nine won through WIN/NBN with a combined overnight share of 30.9% from Prime/7Qld with 26.7%, the ABC with 18.8%, Southern Cross (Ten) with 17.1% and SBS with 6.8%. 7Two won the digital battle with 2.5%, with GO second with 1.8%. Nine leads the week from Seven.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: ACA didn’t win nationally last night, but beat TT in Melbourne, thanks to the exclusive interview with interview with Laura De Gois — the daughter of Maria Korp, the murder victim who is at the centre of the Nine Network tele movie this Sunday night.

Q&A at 9.30pm on the ABC started promisingly, but then degenerated. 469,000 viewers. That’s OK, but it’s not getting much traction. I know it’s based on the BBC program called Question Time and Tony Jones, like the UK cost, has a nice white head of hair. Like its UK model, it’s a political talkfest, and there are a host of subjects/topics that are not political. When you have politicians or political folk on programs like this, the discussion collapses to politics as the default setting.

TONIGHT: My Kitchen Rules on Seven, Brothers and Sisters runs for a second night in a row after Seven halved Grey’s Anatomy to one hour episode at 8.30pm. Nine has the Twenty20 cricket, then the Games. Ten has a fresh NCIS and before that, The Biggest Loser and Bondi Rescue. The ABC has Foreign Correspondent and then the final part of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour. Insight returns to SBS at 7.30pm and should be checked to see how it’s come back.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports