The X Factor delivers for Seven, Everybody Dance Now axed

Seven's night as the The X Factor held up strongly from its return on Monday night.

The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Seven’s night as The X Factor held up strongly from its return on Monday night. Ten was joined by Nine in being reminded the audience won’t put up with rubbish for too long.

The X Factor had 1.526 million metro viewers and 2.27 million nationally. It only fell 70,000 odd thousand viewers from Monday night.

Anger Management, the new Charlie Sheen “sit com” died on screen last night, losing 40% of its viewers for the first of two episodes, and close to 50% for the second at 9pm (from the million plus figures the first two episodes got last week). The first episode averaged 693,000 metro and 946,000 national viewers, the second averaged 593,000 metro and 835,0000 national viewers.

Ten’s new I Will Survive wasn’t bad. I liked it’s spirit and the idea. But I was in a minority. It only managed to get 506,000 people watching in metro markets and 703,000 nationally. Not really good enough. Meanwhile, Everybody Dance Now was boned yesterday (and replaced on Sunday nights by repeats of Modern Family and The Graham Norton Show).

Ten had a slightly better night though than earlier in the week, but ABC 1 still beat Ten into third in important main channels in metro and regional markets. Ten faces a very uncomfortable Spring and early Summer. The revenue and profit impact will be damaging.

Tonight: Gruen Planet and Randling on ABC 1, The X Factor on Seven. Big Brother and The Farmer Wants a Wife on Nine. I Will Survive and Puberty Blues on Ten.

The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined):

The X Factor (Seven) — 2.276 million
Seven News — 1.973 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.717 million
Winners & Losers (Seven) — 1.714 million
Nine News — 1.670 million
ABC News — 1.522 million
Winners & Losers (Seven) — 1.489 million
Home & Away (Seven) — 1.483 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.444 million
Big Brother (Nine) — 1.403 million

The Metro Winners:

The X Factor (Seven) (7.30pm) — 1.526 million
Seven News (6pm) — 1.374 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.189 million
Winners & Losers (Seven) (8.30pm) — 1.160 million
ABC News (7pm) — 1.137 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.135 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.082 million
Winners & Losers (Seven) (9.30pm) — 1.069 million
Big Brother (Nine) (7pm) — 1.017 million
Home and Away (Seven) (7pm) — 1.002 million

The Losers: Ten, again, sigh! Nine with the two episodes of Anger Management.

Metro News & CA: Nine News won Melbourne, Seven News won the rest, including Sydney. A Current Affair won Melbourne and Brisbane (where the Today Tonight audience fell 100,000 from Seven News!), Today Tonight won the rest.

Seven News (6pm) — 1.374 million
Today Tonight (Seven) (6.30pm) — 1.189 million
ABC News (7pm) — 1.137 million
Nine News (6pm) — 1.135 million
A Current Affair (Nine) (6.30pm) — 1.082 million
Ten News (5pm) — 716,000
7.30 (ABC) (7.30pm) — 690,000
The Project (Ten) (6.30pm) — 556,000
Foreign Correspondent (ABC) (8pm) — 549,000
The Project (Ten) (6pm) — 436,000
Insight (SBS) (8.30pm) — 337,000
Dateline (SBS) (9.30pm) — 207,000
Lateline (ABC) (10.30pm) — 191,000
Ten News (Ten) (10.30pm) — 185,000
SBS News (6.30pm) — 152,000
The Business (ABC) (11.05pm) — 129,000
SBS News (10.30pm) — 96,000
The Drum (News 24) (10pm) — 30,000

In the morning: Another bad morning for Breakfast on Ten. The ABC’s News Breakfast‘s simulcast on News 24 had more viewers.

Sunrise (Seven) (7am) — 390,000
Today (Nine) (7am) — 294,000
The Morning Show (Seven) (9am) — 175,000
Mornings (Nine) (9am) — 112,000
News Breakfast (ABC) (7am) — 52,000 (+32,000)*
Breakfast (Ten) (7am) — 24,000

*On News 24 simulcast

Metro FTA: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 35.0%, from Nine (3) on 23.3%, Ten (3) was on 17.4%, the ABC (4) was on 17.2% and SBS (2) ended with a solid 7.2%. Seven now leads the week with 31.3% from Nine on 30.3%, the ABC on 16.7% and Ten on 16.1%. Main Channels. Seven won with 27.4%, from Nine on 17.4%, ABC 1 was on 12.7%, Ten was on 12.0% and SBS ONE was on 5.9%. Nine still leads the week with 24.6% from Seven with 23.9%, ABC 1 on 12.9% and Ten on 11.2%.

Metro Digital: 7TWO won with a share of 3.9% from 7mate on 3.6%, ABC 2 and Eleven were on 3.1% each, GO and Gem were on 2.9% each, ONE was on 2.3%, SBS TWO, 1.3%, News 24 was on 0.7% and ABC 3 ended on 0.6%. The 10 digital channels had a moderate FTA share last night of 24.4%. 7TWO leads the week with 4.0%, from 7mate on 3.5% and GO on 3.4%.

Metro including Pay TV: Seven (3 channels) won with a share of 29.4%, from Nine (3) on 19.6%, Ten (3) was on 14.7%, the ABC (4) was on 14.5% and SBS (2) ended with 6.0%. The 15 FTA channels total viewing share last night was 86.6%. The 10 digital channels total was 20.6% and the five main channels share was 66.0%. Pay TV with the 200 plus channels on Foxtel, had a 13.4% share last night.

The top five pay TV channels were:

LifeStyle & Fox 8 (2.7%)
TV 1 (2.5%)
Sky News (1.5%)
Discovery (1.4%)
A&E (1.4%)

The five most-watched programs on pay TV were:

Family Guy (Fox 8) — 85,000
The Simpsons (Fox 8 ) — 83,000
Geordie Shore (MTV) — 78,000
AFL: AFL 360 (Fox Footy) — 67,000
Storage Wars (A&E) — 64,000

Regional: Prime/7Qld (3 channels) won with a share of 36.1%, from WIN/NBN (3) on 23.8%, with SC Ten (3) was on 16.7%, the ABC on 16.0%, and SBS (2) ended on %. Prime/7Qld won the main channels with 26.6%, from WIN/NBN on 17.6%, ABC 1 was on 11.6% and SC Ten was on 11.2%. 7TWO won the digitals with 5.1%, from 7mate on 4.4% and Gem with 3.6%. The 10 digital channels had an FTA share last night of 27.5%. Prime/7Qld with 32.8% leads the week from WIN/NBN on 29.0%.

The five most-watched programs in regional markets were:

The X Factor — 753,000
A Current Affair — 636,000
Seven News — 599,000
Winners & Losers — 556,000
Nine News — 535,000

Major Metro Markets: A clean sweep for Seven, overall and the main channel in all five metro markets, with big wins in Adelaide and Perth. Ten was third overall in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and third in the main channels in Brisbane and Adelaide (a slightly better outcome than on Sunday and Monday nights). The ABC was third overall in Melbourne and third in the main channels in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. 7TWO won the digitals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. 7mate won Sydney. Nine leads Seven and the ABC in Sydney and Melbourne. In Brisbane its Seven from Nine and Ten. In Adelaide and Perth it’s Seven from Nine and the ABC.

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

Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports