Another Tuesday night, another feeding time for The Beast (AKA My Kitchen Rules), another clean up for Seven in metro and regional markets. My Kitchen Rules managed to grab 2.344 million national and 1.567 million metro viewers.

And it was no wonder Seven did it easily last night. Nine’s offering, apart from The Block which did OK (1.1197 million viewers nationally), but not brilliantly against My Kitchen Rules was a fresh episode and two repeats of The Big Bang Theory. Hardly the most inspiring of programming moves and one designed to save Nine money on a losing night. Ten at least had fresh episodes of Gold Coast Cops, Bondi Rescue, NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles and was trying to give viewers something different. Nine was just its usual cynical, cost saving, damn the viewers self. Apart from the news, ACA and The Block, the rest of the night’s programming for Nine would have cost it tuppence and change.

Making Australia Great started on ABC last night with 999,000 national and 707,000 metro viewers. Not a bad first episode. Let’s see how it handles the GFC and the real story, the way the Reserve Bank kept the economy afloat in late 2008 and early 2009 as overseas funding dried up for our banks and depositors made a silent run on the banks and withdrew billions in a matter of weeks. How To Get Away With Murder on Seven at 9pm — 25,000 national and 577,000 metro. Murder isn’t as interesting as it was a few weeks ago for Australian viewers. And don’t forget Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell tonight on AB  at 8.30pm. Zinger alert!

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (31.0%)
  2. Nine (27.3%)
  3. Ten (19.7%)
  4. ABC (17.2%)
  5. SBS (4.9%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.4%)
  2. Nine (20.1%)
  3. ABC (13.5%)
  4. Ten (13.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (3.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO  (3.9%)
  2. 7TWO (3.8%)
  3. Eleven (3.7%)
  4. Gem (3.2%)
  5. ONE (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 2.344 million
  2. Nine News –1.398 million
  3. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.368 million
  4. Seven News — 1.336 million
  5. ABC News — 1.329 million
  6. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) –1.299 million
  7. The Block (Nine) — 1.197 million
  8. The Big Bang Theory repeat (Nine) — 1.085 million
  9. Catalyst (ABC) — 1.076 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC  — 1.059 million

Top metro programs:

  1. My Kitchen Rules (Seven) – 1.5671 million
  2. Seven News — 1.025 million

Losers: No one really, except perhaps viewers of Nine apart from fans of The Big Bang Theory, funny as it is.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.025 million
  2. Nine News — 990,000
  3. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 980,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 966,000
  5. ABC News — 909,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 877,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 718,000
  8. Ten Eyewitness News — 540,000
  9. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 527,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 408,000

Morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 344,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 298,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC 106,000 + 31,000 on News 24) — 137,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 133,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 117,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 56,000

Top pay TV channels:

  1. Fox8  (2.6%)
  2. UKTV, LifeStyle  (2.0%)
  3. TVHITS  (1.9%)
  4. Arena (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Back Page (Fox Sports 1) – 69,000
  2. Pink Panther And Pals (Boomerang) — 60,000
  3. Family Guy (Fox8) – 58,000
  4. The Graham Norton Show (UKTV) – 53,000
  5. Modern Family (Fox8) – 13,000

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