The Winners: A close night between Nine and Ten, but of which should have buried Seven for a second night in a row, but they just couldn’t deliver a knockout blow.

The Renovators on Ten: 978,000. Better than Sunday night, but still not good. Won the timeslot, but over half a million viewers from MasterChef didn’t stay.

Can of Worms, 591,000 at around 9.50pm (instead of more than 900,000 at 8.30pm it had last week). It did well, but was sacrificed for the second episode of The Renovators. Let’s hope a good idea hasn’t been ruined.

The Amazing Race Australia on Seven at 8.30pm: 963,000. Down 100,000 or so on a week ago. Not a good look so close to the end of the series.

  1. MasterChef Australia (Ten) (7.30pm) — 1.674 million
  2. The Block (Nine) (7pm) — 1.487 million
  3. Seven News (6pm)  — 1.472 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.335 million
  5. Nine News (6pm) — 1.236 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.182 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.147 million

The Losers: Rescue Special Ops at 8.30pm on Nine; 818,000.

Crash Investigation Unit on Seven at 8pm, 737,000. The toleration of these low ratings confirms that Seven is running dead while MasterChef is in its final weeks.

News & CA: Seven News won everywhere but Sydney where Nine was on top. TT won everywhere bar Brisbane where ACA got home. Today has resumed stalking Sunrise in the mornings.

  1. Seven News (6pm)  — 1.472 million
  2. Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.335 million
  3. Nine News (6pm) — 1.236 million
  4. A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.182 million
  5. ABC News (7pm) — 971,000
  6. Four Corners (ABC) (8.30pm) — 867,000
  7. Australian Story (ABC) (8pm) — 839,000
  8. The 7pm Project (Ten) (7pm) — 759,000
  9. Media Watch (ABC) (9.15pm) — 732, 000
  10. Ten News (5pm) — 685,000
  11. 7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 660,000
  12. Q&A (ABC) (9.35pm) — 580,000
  13. 6.30 with George Negus (Ten) (6.30pm) — 461,000
  14. Late News/Sports Tonight (Ten) (10.50pm) — 257,000
  15. Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 250,000
  16. SBS News (6.30pm) — 233,000
  17. Lateline Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 117,000
  18. SBS News (9.30pm) — 117,000

In the morning:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 364,000
  2. Today (Nine) (7am) — 346,000

The Stats:

  • FTA: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 27.7% from Seven (3) on 26.5%, from Ten (3) on 24.6%, the ABC (4) was on 16.0% and SBS (2) ended with 5.2%. Nine leads the week with 26.9% from Seven on 25.4% and Ten with 24.2%.
  • Main Channel: Nine won with 21.0% from Ten on 19.4%, Seven with 18.3%, ABC 1 was on 13.1% and SBS ONE ended with 4.7%. Nine leads the week with 20.5% from Seven on 19.3% and Ten on 18.0%.
  • Digital: 7TWO won with 4.3% from GO on 4.2%, Eleven on 3.4%, 7mate on 3.3%, ONE on 1.8%, ABC 2 on 1.7%, ABC 3 and News 24 on 0.6% each and SBS TWO on 0.5%. That’s a total share of FTA viewing of 22.9%. GO leads the week with 4.0% from Eleven and 7TWO on 3.3%.
  • Pay TV: Nine (3 channels) won with a share of 22.9% from Seven on 21.9%, ten with 20.4%, Pay TV (200 plus channels) was on 14.5%, the ABC (4) ended with 13.2% and SBS (2) was on 4.3%. The 15 FTA channels had a TV viewing share last night of 85.5%, with the 10 digital channels on 18.8% and the five main channels, 66.7%.
  • Regional: A win to WIN/NBN (3 channels) with 28.6% from Prime/7Qld (3) on 27.1%, SC Ten (3) on 21.5%, the ABC (4) on 17.1% and SBS (2) on 5.7%. WIN/NBN had a bigger win in the main channels with 23.1% to Prime/7Qld on 17.3% and SC Ten on 16.0%. 7TWO won the digitals with 5.5%, from 7mate on 4.2% and Eleven on 4.1%. The 10 digital channels had a share of FTA viewing last night in prime time of 24.5%. Prime/7Qld leads the week with 27.3%, from WIN/NBN on 27.2%.

Major Markets: Nine’s night, but outside Sydney and Melbourne, Ten and Nine were weaker than it seems from the national figures. Nine won overall and in the main channels in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Ten was mostly second, but in Sydney, Seven was second overall and in Brisbane it ran second overall and in the main channels, pushing Ten back to third.

In Adelaide, Seven won overall from Nine and Ten and in the main channels it was Nine from Seven and Ten. In Perth, it was Seven from Ten and Nine which was again very weak. GO won Sydney in the digitals, 7TWO won the rest. Nine leads Seven and Ten in Sydney and Brisbane, while in Melbourne Ten is second and Seven is third. In Adelaide, its Seven from Nine and Ten, while in Perth its Seven from Ten and Nine.

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

Glenn Dyer’s comments: A close night won by Nine with Ten doing OK, but both networks again fell short in Adelaide and Perth where Seven, with a weak line up (the weakest so far of the year on Sunday and Monday nights) still leads. You can almost hear the smiles of relief at Ten this morning in its ratings commentary:

“The Renovators draws an audience of 983,000 viewers and wins its timeslot (20:41 – 21:52), beating Seven’s Amazing Race Australia /Bones Rpt and Nine’s Rescue Special Ops in total people (26.4%) and TEN’s target demographics of 18-49 (31.0%) and 25-54 (30.2%). The Renovators also dominates its timeslot in 16-39 (33.9%). The Renovators is Monday’s No. 3 show in 18-49, 16-39 and 25-54.”

Whereas this is what Ten said on Monday morning about Sunday night’s uninspiring launch of The Renovators:

“The Renovators — Launch draws an audience of 933,000 viewers (peaking at 1.36 million viewers). The Renovators — Launch wins its timeslot (20:33 – 21:46) in TEN’s target demographics of 18-49 (27.9%) and 25-54 (28.3%) and is dominant in 16-39 (30.1%).”

Bubble all round at Ten’s Pyrmont HQ?

  • MasterChef had a national audience of 2.231 million with 557,000 viewers in regional areas and 1.674 million in the five metro markets.
  • The Block had a national audience of 1.976 million with 489,000 in the regions and 1.487 million in the metro markets.

TONIGHT: Foreign Correspondent: a must see on the tsunami zone in Japan. The grand final of Australia’s Got Talent on Seven. The Block on Nine. Insight is back on SBS at 7.30pm, MasterChef on Ten. Seven has the debut of Dinner Date Australia: a sort of cross between Dancing With The Stars, My Kitchen Rules and any number of dumb dating shows.

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports