The Bachelorette is down to two. Will Apollo be promoted to be his own Bacherlor in 2018 after his early exit last night? After all this year’s Bach, Matty J, was a 2016 dumpee. Apollo could revive the weak ratings from this year’s series.  Ten ran second in the metros overall, but again won the main channels and will win both tonight. The Bachette — 1.56 million and the most watched program nationally and in the metros — 1.18 million. And tonight, more for Ten.

Nothing wrong with Sisters — 878,000 nationally over two hours, made up of 624,000 metro and 254,000 regional viewers. It is, in fact, the sort of comedy drama that the ABC should have really made instead of drifting off into science fiction with the likes of Glitch or getting lost in a Medicare office with Pulse. And isn’t it interesting that poor, broke Ten is still having a go with interesting new program ideas.

In the metros, Seven News was back on top with 525,000, second was Home and Away with 422,000, third was Seven News/TT with 415,000, then The Bachette with 383,000 and Gruen was fifth with 350,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (26.2%)
  2. Ten (24.9%)
  3. Nine (23.0%)
  4. ABC (19.5%)
  5. SBS 6.3%)

Network main channels:

  1. Ten (20.5%)
  2. Seven (16.3%)
  3. Nine (15.3%)
  4. ABC (14.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.3%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (4.6%)
  2. GO (3.4%)
  3. 7mate (3.0%)
  4. ABC 2 (2.9%)
  5. Gem, ONE (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 1.563 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.481 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.355 million
  4. Gruen (ABC) — 1.198 million
  5. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.146 million
  6. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.115 million
  7. Nine/NBN News — 1.114 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.027 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 992,000
  10. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 946,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Bachelorette (Ten) — 1.180 million

Losers: Seven, again

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 957,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 940,000
  3. Nine News — 854,000
  4. Nine News (6.30pm) — 835,000
  5. 7pm ABC News – 701,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) – 682,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 579,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) —556,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 440,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 340,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 473,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 384,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 180,000 + 79,000 on News 24) — 259,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 199,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 162,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 113,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 165,000
  2. Love It Or List It Australia (Fox Footy) — 121,000
  3. NCIS (TVHITS) — 49,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 48,000
  5. The Flash (Fox8) – 47,000