Another weak night for Seven, and Nine won, but the strong debut last week for Arrow didn’t last — it lost a lot of viewers last night. Its figures were 1.740 million nationally (down 300,000, but more than OK) — 1.107 million in metro markets — off 211,000 and regionally, it had a still solid 633,000, down from 722,000 last week. But it was enough to add to some very good figures for the fresh and one of the repeat episodes of The Big Bang Theory and give Nine a win. Nine also has a big win in regional markets as viewers there went right off Seven.

That Seven’s news was the most watched program nationally and in metro and regional markets tells us that the programs after 7pm were pretty boring so far as the audience was concerned. And Seven can’t really gloat about this small win — Seven News still copped a hiding in the key markets of Sydney and Melbourne — 318,000 in Sydney for Seven’s 6pm news, to 364,000 for Nine. In Melbourne it was 484,000 for Nine’s 6pm news — 130,000 in front of Seven. Big wins in Perth and regional Queensland pushed Seven ahead of Nine.

A Current Affair also won Sydney and Melbourne from Today Tonight, with a similar win in Brisbane for A Current Affair. Seven management had an investor day in Sydney yesterday where the future strategy for the company was revealed — and the big black rating holes  between 6pm and 7pm in Sydney and Melbourne were not mentioned. Odd?

Seven’s Criminal Minds at 8.30pm for the fresh episode was again weak — it had 1/132 million nationally/ 762,000 metro and 370,000 regional viewers. It used to be a 1.5 million to 1.6 million national program and well above 1.1 million in metro markets.

And late this morning Fox in the US revealed that it had ordered a series of the US version of Rake, the program on ABC1 in Australia that starred Richard Roxburgh. That role will be filled by Greg Kinnear. Rake could air in the US in early 2014.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine  (30.6%)
  2. Seven (29.9%)
  3. ABC (17.1%)
  4. Ten (16.7%)
  5. SBS (5.6%)

Network main channels

  1. Nine (23.2%)
  2. Seven (21.8%)
  3. ABC 1 (12.4%)
  4. Ten (12.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.7%)

Top five digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.2%)
  2. 7mate, GO — 3.9%
  3. Gem (3.6%)
  4. Eleven, ABC 2 — 3.0%
  5. ONE — 1.8%

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News – 1.933 million
  2. Nine News — 1.890 million
  3. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.855 million
  4. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.809 million
  5. Arrow (Nine) — 1.740 million
  6. The Force (Seven) — 1.646 million
  7. Highway Patrol (Seven) — 1.646 million
  8. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.421 million
  9. ABC1 News — 1.417 million
  10. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.279 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News– 1.322 million
  2. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 1.288 million
  3. Nine News– 1.240 million
  4. The Force (Seven) — 1.126 million
  5. Arrow (Nine) — 1.107 million
  6. A Current Affair> (Nine) — 1.060 million
  7. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.005 million

Losers:   Some of the ABC’s departing shows — Tractor Monkeys (590,000 national/ 405,000 metro/ 185,000 regional). the Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knifefighting (367,000 national/ 257,000 metro/ 110,000 regional). The Following on Nine at 9.30pm, (725,000 national/ 492,000 metro/ 233,000 regional) more than 600,000 turned off for this after watching Arrow. Ten’s The Good Wife — 533,000 national/401,000 metro/ 132,000 regional. Another sad result. 

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News – 1.322 million
  2. Nine News — 1.240 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.060 million
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.005 million
  5. ABC1 News –– 970,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC1) — 722,000
  7. Ten News –722,000
  8. The Project (Ten) — 528,000
  9. Ten Late News — 188,000
  10. SBS ONE News — 183,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 355,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 329,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 54,000 + 40,000 on News 24

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox 8, LifeStyle – 3.1%
  2. TV1 – 2.2%
  3. UKTV, Sky News – 1.8%.
  4. Disney Jr, Fox Classics – 1.5%
  5. Crime & Investigation, Discovery — 1.4%

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360  (Fox Footy) – 109,000
  2. Wentworth  (SoHo) – 102,000
  3. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 83,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox 8) – 79,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox 8) – 76,000

Tonight: Mrs Brown’s Boys on Seven (after yet another long, 90 minute ep of Home and Away). The Footy Shows on Nine. Law and Order SVU on Ten and the highlight of the night (and one of the week’s), The Checkout on ABC1 at 8pm.

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