Not the strongest night of TV. Seven’s Dancing with the Stars, while helping win the night for Seven, did so with another fall in audience in all markets. But Nine and Ten had nothing strong enough to put pressure on Seven, except weaker efforts from Big Brother and the debut of Rebel Wilson’s Super Fun Night which made the national top 10. But that will be the peak for what is a mildly amusing program, which is probably funnier than it seems because it follows the very dull Big Brother.

Dancing with the Stars  has lost around 300,000 viewers from its return episode a couple of weeks ago — it started with just over 2 million national viewers. Last night it had 1.741 million/ 1.133 million metro/ 608,000 regional viewers, which is not to be sneezed at. But the program skews old and you could almost hear the roar of electric jugs for the cups of tea and chocolate across the country after the show ended.

Nine’s Super Fun Night had 1.118 million national/ 791,000 metro/ 327,000 regional viewers and Big Brother had 1.203 million national/ 863,000 metro/ 340,000 regional viewers. Foreign Correspondent had 881,000 national/ 577,000 metro/ 304,000 regional viewers for the report on Pakistani school girl, Malala. A beacon of sense. The gap between Nine News and Seven News in Melbourne narrowed to just 25,000 viewers. In Sydney, Nine won by 71,000, and it also won in Brisbane, but Seven had its usual big win in Perth and in regional markets.

Ten did better than the ABC, but then Tuesday night is now a fairly weak night for the national broadcaster. Ten also had a better night in regional markets, edging ABC 1 out in the main channels.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (32.4%)
  2. Nine (25.2%)
  3. Ten (18.6%)
  4. ABC (17.6%)
  5. SBS (6.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.0%)
  2. Nine (19.2%)
  3. Ten (12.2%)
  4. ABC1 (12.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.4%)

Top digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (5.6%)
  2. Eleven (4.0%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.6%)
  4. GO (3.1%)
  5. 7mate, Gem (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Dancing with the Stars  (Seven) – 1.741 million
  2. Seven News — 1.681 million
  3. Nine News — 1.603 million
  4. Home and Away (Seven) – 1.481 million
  5. ABC News — 1.324 million
  6. Big Brother (Nine) — 1.203 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.185 million
  8. Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.137 million
  9. Super Fun Night (Nine) — 1.118 million
  10. 7.30 (ABC1) — 1.039 million

Top metro programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.135 million
  2. Dancing with the Stars (Seven) — 1.133 million
  3. Nine News — 1.084 million

Losers: Us viewers. There were the usual suspects,  Ten’s Recipe To Riches (715,000 national/ 479,000 metro/ 236,000 regional viewers) and Sleepy Hollow (733,000 national/ 471,000 metro/ 262,000 regional viewers). Ten was fourth behind the ABC from  7pm to at least 9.30pm. And, yes the ABC’s audience was older than Ten’s, but Nine had the younger viewers anyway with Big Brother and Super Fun Night.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.135 million
  2. Nine News — 1.084 million
  3. A Current Affair (Nine) — 976,000
  4. Today Tonight (Seven) — 942,000
  5. ABC News  – 902,000
  6. 7.30 (ABC1) — 679,000
  7. Foreign Correspondent (ABC1) — 577,000
  8. Ten News  – 551,000
  9. The Project (Ten) — 501,000
  10. Insight (SBS ONE) — 266,000

Metro morning TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 365,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 351,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC1, 71,000 + 39,000 on News 24) — 110,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. TV1  (2.6%)
  2. Fox 8, LifeStyle (2.5%)
  3. Fox Classics, 13th Street (1.7%)
  4. 111 Hits, Sky news (1.6%)
  5. Comedy Channel, UKTV  (1.5%).

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (13th Street) –  69,000
  2. Seinfeld (TV1) – 64,000
  3. Selling Houses Australia  (LifeStyle) – 60,000
  4. Long Lost Family (LifeStyle) – 54,000
  5. Family Guy (Fox 8) – 53,000

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