The Winners

  1. Packed to the Rafters (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.910 million.
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.511 million.
  3. Seven News (6pm) — 1.503 million.
  4. Top Gear (Nine) (7.30pm) — 1.374 million.
  5. Nine News (6pm)  — 1.312 million.
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.269 million.
  7. Minute To Win It (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.223 million.
  8. Modern Family (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.183 million.
  9. Two and a Half Men (Nine) (repeat, 7pm) — 1.170 million.
  10. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.071 million.
  11. ABC News (7pm) — 1.066 million.

A normal Tuesday night when MasterChef isn’t around and Packed to the Rafters is in Seven’s schedule.

The Losers

Anything to do with the election, and Rules of Engagement on Ten at 8pm; 951,000 is down from its return on Sunday night. It is vaguely funny. When the empty Minute To Win It can do well at 7.30 to 8.30pm against Top Gear and Rules of Engagement can’t get a million viewers, you know its weak.

News & CA

  1. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.511 million.
  2. Seven News (6pm) — 1.503 million.
  3. Nine News (6pm)  — 1.312 million.
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.269 million.
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 1.066 million.
  6. The 7PM Project (Ten) — 991,000.
  7. Ten News (5pm) — 871,000.
  8. The 7.30 Report (ABC) (7.30pm) — 842,000.
  9. Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 789,000.
  10. Ten’s late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.30pm) — 390,000.
  11. Lateline (ABC) (10.35pm) — 221,000.
  12. Insight (SBS) (7.30pm) — 203,000.
  13. SBS News (6.30pm) — 187,000.
  14. SBS late News (9.30pm) — 122,000.
  15. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.10pm) — 110,000.

Mornings

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 381,000.
  2. Today (Nine) (7am ) — 348,000.

Seven lost Melbourne to Nine News, won the rest. Today Tonight won everywhere. Strongest in Melbourne. ACA’s segment on Muslim tourists on the Gold Coast was channelling Pauline Hanson at her best. “Kazbah on the Gold Coast”, “Burquas Paradise”, it was full of cliche’s such as paradise and pilgrimage.  The producers of ACA should hang their heads in shame for allowing such a badly written report go to air. There was no breakdown of which country the Muslim visitors came from, little or no attempt to talk to them. Some could have come from Sydney, some looked like they were from Malaysia and Indonesia and Singapore. It would have been better without the lame puns, clichéd shots and Middle Eastern style music. But that then would have made it a story for grown ups, not ACA. People in the street were far more mature than reporter Kate Donnison, who seemed to be casting round for someone to say silly things. It was left to her appalling and offensive punning. Fancy Tracy Grimshaw introducing something as crass as that report. There was a good story buried in there about tolerance on the Gold Coast.

The Stats:

  • FTA: A win to Seven with a share of 31.9%, from Nine with 26.6%, Ten on 20.7%, the ABC, 15.8% and SBS, 5.0%. Ten leads the week with 30.4%, from Seven on 26.5% and Nine with 23.7%. Seven won the main demos as well.
  • Main Channel: Seven won here with a share of 29.7%, from Nine with 24.4%, Ten on 20.2%, ABC1, 13.9% and SBS ONE, 4.4%. Ten leads with 28.9% from Seven on 23.7% and Nine with 20.9%.
  • Digital: GO and 7TWO shared the honours last night with a share of 2.2% each. ABC2 was next with 1.4%, ONE and SBS TWO were on 0.6% each and ABC3 finished with 0.5%. That’s a total share of 7.5% for the six FTA digital channels. Adelaide had the highest total share for the digitals channels with 8.9%, followed by Perth with 8.7%.
  • Pay TV: Seven won with a share of 26.7%, from Nine with 22.2%, Ten on 17.3%, Pay TV and its 100 – plus channels, 13.7%, the ABC, 13.2% and SBS, 4.2%. The 11 FTA channels had a total share of 86.3%.
  • Regional: A win to Prime/7Qld with 31.7%, from WIN/NBN on 29.4%, SC Ten on 20.0%, the ABC, 13.4% and SBS, 5.4%. Prime/7Qld won the main channels from WIN/NBN, GO won the digitals from 7TWO and ABC2. SC Ten leads the week with 27.4%, from WIN/NBN on 27.1% and Prime/7Qld on 26.2%.

Major Markets:

  • Sydney: It was Seven, from Nine and Ten in the overall and main channels, with GO winning the digitals from 7TWO and ABC2. Ten leads the week from Seven and Nine.
  • Melbourne: It was Seven, from Nine and Ten here as well in both the overall and the main channels. 7TWO won the digitals from GO and ABC2. Ten leads the week from Seven and Nine.
  • Brisbane: Nine won here in both the overall and the digitals thanks to Top Gear doing well Seven was second and Ten third. GO won the digitals from 7TWO and ABC2. Ten leads the week from Seven and Nine.
  • Adelaide: Seven here in both the overall and main channels, from Nine and Ten. 7TWO won the digitals from GO and ABC2, Ten leads the week from Seven and Nine.
  • Perth: It was Seven from Nine and Ten in both the overall and the main channels as well; GO won the digitals from 7TWO and ABC2. Ten leads the week from Seven and Nine.

(All shares on the basis of combined overnight 6 pm to midnight All People)

Glenn Dyer’s comments: Last night Top Gear was new and did well with more than 1.3 million viewers, but it’s the same old same old. The 7PM Project slipped under a million viewers, but was still snappier and crisper than the 7pm ABC News, and ACA and TT which preceded it.

TONIGHT: Spicks and Specks, then Gruen Nation, followed by the Chaser boys show Yes We Canberra! Nine has another series of Farmer Wants A Wife. The first S-x And The City movie at 9.30pm on Nine is a bigger draw. Ten has Lie To Me and fresh episodes of The Simpsons at 7.30pm. Check out The 7PM Project on Ten, then The Simpsons, then Spicks and Specks, Gruen Nation and Yes We Canberra! and make sure you have started recording S-x And The City, so you can switch after Yes We Canberra! What was MasterChef, again?

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports