Seven’s night, again. The Wall shed 15.7% of its national audience — from 1.54 million  on Monday night to 1.31 million last night, Seven was saved by the debut of The Good Doctor which topped the metros with 1.06 million (the only million viewer audience in the metros last night) and nationally with more than 1.64 million people which made it Number 1. Seven’s 2017 saved with four weeks to go!

The storyline is autistic savant medico saves the day. That’s opposed to the grumpy/prickly genius savant medico on House — whose producers are also responsible for The Good Doctor,  an ABC America remake of the South Korean original series. I betcha no one is out hawking a teleplay for an autistic savant accountant saving the profit and loss report. But medicos are popular in Australia in 2017 and star in two of this year’s most popular (and solid) dramas at the moment — the locally made Doctor Doctor on Nine and Dr Blake’s Mysteries on the ABC (soon to go to Seven). Grey’s Anatomy is still alive on a digital channel at Seven and ABC has ordered more episodes for the current season of this stalwart. Is it time to disinter Dr Kildare and Dr Casey’s Notebook, as well as the old ABC standard, GP?

And in the regions a Seven benefit with The Good Doctor on top with 580,000, followed by Seven News with 528,000, The Wall was third with 518,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 435,000 and Home and Away was fifth with 423,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (34.4%)
  2. Nine (26.5%)
  3. Ten (15.9%)
  4. ABC (15.2%)
  5. SBS (8.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (24.4%)
  2. Nine (17.7%)
  3. Ten (11.2%)
  4. ABC (10.1%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.9%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. GO (4,1%)
  2. 7mate (3.4%)
  3. ABC 2 (3.1%)
  4. Gem (3.0%)
  5. 7TWO (2.9%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. The Good Doctor (Seven) — 1.642 million
  2. Seven News  — 1.477 million
  3. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.135 million
  4. The Wall (Seven) — 1.313 million
  5. Nine/NBB News 6.30 — 1.455 million
  6. Nine/NBB News — 1.087million
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.078 million
  8. 7pm ABC News — 1.039 million
  9. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.034 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 874,000

Top metro programs:

  1. The Good Doctor (Seven) — 1.062 million

Losers: The ABC, Ten.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News — 1.100 million
  2. Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.093 million
  3. Nine News (6.30pm) — 1.037 million
  4. Nine News — 1.022 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) – 965,000
  6. 7pm ABC News – 918,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 776,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 613,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News — 500,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 451,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) – 487,000
  2. Today (Nine) – 414,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC, 171,000 + 90,000 on News 24) — 261,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 203,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 164,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 109,000

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 74,000
  2. PML Overtime (Sky News) — 48,000
  3. NCIS (TVHITS) — 46,000
  4. HOUSE (TVHITS) — 46,000
  5. Jones & Co (Sky News) — 46,000