The Winners: Nine’s fresh Two and a Half Men at 7.30pm averaged 1.431 million for the fresh episode. Today Tonight was second for Seven with 1.398 million and Seven News was 3rd with 1.379 million. My Kitchen Rules averaged 1.355 million for Seven at 7.30pm and The Mentalist was a winner at 8.30pm for Nine with 1.276 million people. Nine News was 6th with 1.236 million and The Big Bang Theory averaged 1.244 million at 8pm for Nine. The 7pm repeat of Two and a Half Men averaged 1.168 million for Nine and A Current Affair was 9th with 1.146 million viewers. Desperate Housewives averaged 1.083 million for Seven at 8.30pm and Home and Away was 11th for Seven at 7pm with 1.056 million. The 7pm ABC News was 12th with 1 million viewers. Seven’s Brothers and Sisters averaged 983,000 at 9.30pm and beat Nine’s Miami Vice with 875,000. Australian Story averaged 815,000 at 8pm for the ABC.

The Losers: Good News Week on Ten from 8.30pm to 10pm, 757,000. The Biggest Loser elimination from 7.30pm to 8.30pm, 659,000. The repeat of the Melbourne Great Debate on Ten at 10pm, 440,000. Ten from 7.30pm onwards, in fact.

News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market. Today Tonight won everywhere. A couple of the wins (Sydney for the news) were close, but it was a rare clean sweep for Seven this year so far. The 7.30 Report averaged 790,000. Four Corners, 731,000 for the Tony Abbott profile, which is probably less than everyone was hoping. Media Watch immediately after averaged 622,000, so there was a turnoff during Four Corners. Q&A averaged 550,000. Lateline ,264,000, Lateline Business, 131,000. Ten News averaged 861,000, Ten’s late News/Sports Tonight, 215,000 around 11pm. SBS News at 6.30pm, 174,000, 122,000 for the late edition. 7am Sunrise, 345,000, 7am Today, 318,000.

The Stats:

FTA: Seven won with a combined overnight All People share of 31.3%, from Nine with 30.3%, Ten with 17.0%, the ABC with 16.0% and SBS with 5.4%. Seven won all five metro markets and leads the week, 31.6% from Nine with 29.1%.

Main Channels: Seven won narrowly from Nine, with a combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People share of 27.8% to 27.5%. Ten was third with 16.2%, ABC 1 was on 14.4% and SBS TWO, 5.0%. Nine won Sydney, Seven won the rest. Seven leads the week with a share of 28.8% from Nine with 25.2%.

Digital: 7TWO won with a combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People share of 3.6%, from GO with 2.8%, ABC 2 with 1.1%, ONE with 0.8%, ABC 3 and SBS TWO were on 0.4% each. The six digital FTA channels share was 9.1%.

Pay TV: Seven had a combined overnight 6pm to midnight All People share of 25.8%, Nine, 25.0%, Pay TV, 15.4%, Ten, 14.0%, the ABC, 13.2% and SBS, 4.4%. The 11 FTA channels had a combined share of 84.6%, Pay TV’s 100 plus channels were on 15.4%, which was boosted by the audience for the NRL Monday Night game.

Regional: WIN/NBN won with a combined overnight All People 6pm to midnight share of 30.2%, from Prime/7Qld with 27.9%, the ABC with 17.9%, Southern Cross (ten) with 17.5% and SBS with 6.5%. WIN/NBN won the main channel battle, Ten’s main channel with 16.9% beat ABC 1 with 16.1%. GO and 7TWO tied the digital battle with 2.0% share each ABC 2 was on 1.0%.

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Seven won the night in All People, 15 to 39s 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s. End of story, but it wasn’t as dominant as Sunday night. Nine will do it tough tonight because of the Survivors episode at 8.40pm. The genre underwhelms Australian viewers now.

It was an average night of viewing. Nothing really dominated the night, except, perhaps Ten’s weaknesses, which allowed its viewers to go elsewhere for the night. They will return for NCIS and Bondi Rescue tonight.

The last NRL game of the round, the first Monday night game on Foxtel for the year was the Wests-Manly game in Sydney averaged just over 146,600 viewers in the five metro markets last night, confirming once again that sport and especially the NRL, the AFL, and perhaps cricket and soccer are the major drivers for Pay TV and why Foxtel is lobbying hard to get the anti-siphoning rules relaxed.

TONIGHT: Will Top Gear revive, or at least maintain its audience? Watch Nine at 7.30pm. Seven has the second episode for the week of My Kitchen Rules. Ten has NCIS after Bondi Rescue. The ABC has Foreign Correspondent, SBS has Insight.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports