Yet another win for Nine, boosted by a solid audience for the Australia/Thailand qualifier for the World Cup on Go which had 611,000 national viewers (and another 250,000 on Foxtel, making 861,000 all up, a respectable number). The Block was also second nationally and top in the metro with 1.55 million and 1.06 million respectively.  Seven buried its Hell’s Kitchen flop in two coded efforts over two and a half hours of flagging enthusiasm from 7.30pm — the average was 803,000 for the first bit and 837,000 for what was coded as “Late”. Overall the 150 minutes of whatever it was called averaged 820,000. Nowhere near good enough for the money sunk into it.

Next Tuesday Seven returns 800 Words to the screen for the second time this year — a repeat of what happened a year ago when it was brought back early and split across the end of 2016 and resumed with the return of ratings in February — and the ratings slid. Desperate times at Seven and the end of 2017 is resembling the sagging end to 2016 for Kerry Stokes’ network. Shark Tank on Ten could only scare up 505,000 viewers nationally at 7.30pm, including just 394,000 in the metros. Shark Sunk! The House (the Tony gets smashed episode) averaged 798,000 for the ABC.

In regional markets Seven News was tops with 587,000, The Block was second with 484,00, then came Seven News/Today Tonight with 470,000, Home and Away was fourth with 466,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase was fifth with 377,000. Tonight its the final Mad As Hell and Utopia of this lot. That’s a shame — both were more engaging, sharp satire and better entertainment.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (33.6%)
  2. Seven (26.0%)
  3. ABC (17.0%)
  4. Ten (16.8%)
  5. SBS (5.2%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (20.2%)
  2. Seven (17.2%)
  3. ABC (11.8%)
  4. Ten (10.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (7.8%)
  2. Gem (3.7%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.5%)
  4. 7mate (3.4%)
  5. ONE (3.3%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.585 million
  2. The Block (Nine) — 1.553 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.410 million
  4. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.328 million
  5. Nine/NBN News — 1.324 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.184 million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.115 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.132 million
  9. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 964,000
  10. The Big Bang Theory (Nine) — 952,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Block (Nine) — 1.069 million

Losers: Ten, Shark Tank

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 998,000
  2. Nine News — 983,000
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 982,000
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 940,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 836,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 778,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 576,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 506,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 459,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 330,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 506,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 435,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC,  171,000 + 84,000 on News 24) — 255,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 252,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 175,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 110,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Fox Sports More/Fox Sports 505 (3.1%)
  2. TVHITS  (2.7%)
  3. Sky News (2.0%)
  4. Fox 8  (1.8%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. World Cup Soccer: Australia v Thailand (Fox Sports 505) — 250,000
  2. World Cup Soccer: Post Game (Fox Sports 505) — 103,000
  3. Cricket: Bangladesh v Australia (Fox Sports More) — 96,000
  4. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) – 79,000
  5. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 62000