All hail Sophie, Queen of TV — free now to marry Stu in the 2018 hit special called The Honeymooners? Jarrod joins Apollo in a beauty parade for next year’s Bachelor after last night’s rejection on the finale of the Bachette. Soph’s rescue of the Ten network climaxed with a massive 2.20 million audience last night, of which 1.64 million were in the metros. The rest of the program grabbed 1.75 million viewers nationally. If Ten was still a listed company this would have sent the shares higher, even at its lowest point in early June. Gogglebox grabbed 1.3 million nationally straight after and proved to be funnier than much of the “comedy” on TV these days. Their verdict next week on Sophie’s choice last night will be well worth waiting for. 

Seven News again beat Nine News in Sydney (and nationally and in the metros). Seven’s wins in Sydney are starting to become a late year habit. That’s a small glimmer for what has been a miserable three months for Seven. In the regions The Bachette Decision topped the night with 564,000 people, with Seven News second with 509,000, then Seven News/TT with 444,000, the finale of The Bachette was fourth with 437,000 and Home and Away was fifth with 429,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Ten (30.2%)
  2. Seven (25.0%)
  3. Nine (23.8%)
  4. ABC (14.5%)
  5. SBS (6.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Ten (25.5%)
  2. Nine (17.8%)
  3. Seven (15.7%)
  4. ABC (9.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.4%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.9%)
  2. ABC 2, 7mate (2.9%)
  3. ONE (2.7%)
  4. Gem (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Bachelorette decision (Ten) — 2.210 million
  2. The Bachelorette finale (Ten) — 1.753 million
  3. Seven News  — 1.468 million
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.369 million
  5. Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 1.296 million
  6. Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.143 million
  7. Nine/NBN News — 1.121 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.027 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 1.027 million
  10. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.023 million

Top metro programs:

    1. The Bachelorette Decision (Ten) — 1.640 million
    2. The Bachelorette finale (Ten) — 1.316 million

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 957,000
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight —925,000
  3. Nine News 6.30pm — 854,000
  4. Nine News — 851,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 706,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 698,000
  7. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 613,000
  8. 7.30 (ABC) — 567,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 420,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 378,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 488,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 391,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 176,000 + 81,000 on News 24) — 257,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 207,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 171,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 112,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Grand Designs (LifeStyle) — 63,000
  2. The Big Bang Theory (Comedy Channel) — 49,000
  3. Nella The Princess Knight (Nick Jr) — 49,000
  4. Simmer and Shine (Nick Jr) — 48,000
  5. NCIS (TVHITS) — 44,000