Sophie’s night again last night — The Bachelorette grabbed 1.30 million nationally, making her the most watched non news program on the night and second overall. An ok 320,000 watched in the regions with the others not knowing what they missed. Gogglebox Australia had 1.14 million national viewers and fourth overall. Without Soph, that would not have happened. Ten ran second in total people in the metros and tops in the main channels.  Seven’s movie The Intern did well, averaging 760,000 from 8.30pm to 11.10pm. That saw Seven win the night in total people and run second in the main channels, but seeing Nine has already won the week it was a “so what” result. Ten cleaned up in the major demos thanks to Soph.

But with tonight and tomorrow night looking so dire (as usual), time to go out and have fun, read a book, watch a movie, meet a friend and come back on Sunday for another dose of The Block and then Seven’s Michael Hutchence specials on Monday and Tuesday (up against The Block  —  that’s a big call by Seven).

In the regions Seven News was tops with 520,000, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 442,000, Home and Away was third with 419,000, then A Current Affair with 369,000 and the 5.30pm part of The Chase Australia was fifth with 349,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (28.9%)
  2. Ten (25.8%)
  3. Nine (17.4%)
  4. ABC (13.9%)
  5. SBS (7.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Ten (20.3%)
  2. Seven (20.1%)
  3. Nine (17.4%)
  4. ABC (8.4%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.1%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.6%)
  2. ABC 2 (3.6%)
  3. ONE (3.0%)
  4. GO (2.8%)
  5. Eleven (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News  — 1.390 million
  2. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 1.305 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.302 million
  4. Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 1.148 million
  5. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.145 million
  6. Nine/NBN News — 1.455 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.100 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.028 million
  9. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.019 million
  10. RBT (Nine) — 929,000

Losers: Seven and Nine – but its a Thursday night.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 870,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 860,000
  3. Nine News  — 820,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 812,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 731,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 699,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 537,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 469,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 427,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 345,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 482,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 399,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 162,000 + 84,000 on News 24) — 246,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 214,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 167,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 114,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Play Along With Sam (Nick Jr) — 64,000
  2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 60,000
  3. Grand Designs (LifeStyle) — 55,000
  4. Nella The Princess Knight (Nick Jr) — 53,000
  5. Shimmer and Shine (Nick Jr) — 53,000