Wake up with Georgie. Nine has confirmed one of the worst-kept industry secrets, announcing that Georgie Gardner will be the new co-host on Today, replacing Lisa Wilkinson. Gardner presented the news for the program for seven years until 2014, when she moved to a more lifestyle-friendly role presenting the news on weekends. She replaces Lisa Wilkinson, who left the high-profile job in a shock defection to Ten last month.

Bauer cuts more mags. Bauer Media is closing another three of its magazine titles at the end of the year. Australian CEO Paul Dykzeul told MediaWeek it was a commercial decision to shut Yours, Homes+ and Recipes+. “No one likes to close titles, but that is part of what I have to do as part of running the business. We haven’t had the level of support we wanted for those titles. It is a straight commercial decision,” he said. The company hasn’t how many more job cuts there will be — there have been some redundancies at The Australian Women’s Weekly, and it cut its Australian team for Good Health earlier this year.

The Parly Nine. The news of more citizenship troubles for our parliamentarians yesterday has given the nation’s subeditors some good material to work with. The Advertiser went with “Skyefall” on its front page today, but for our money, it’s Huff Post Australia‘s “Parly Nine” from yesterday afternoon that wins the day.

Front page(s) of the day. Bitter New York rival tabloids the New York Daily News and New York Post embarrassingly showed up on newsstands yesterday wearing the same front-page headline:

 

Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings. Nothing to say about last night, except that if Hard Quiz hadn’t been on it would have been a weak night indeed. It averaged 938,000 regional viewers. Instant Hotel averaged 975,000 national viewers and did its bit for Seven. No such joy for viewers of Nine or Ten. 

The digital channels had a combined share of 33.8%. This was boosted by the Matildas game versus China on SBS Viceland, which attracted 144,000 viewers, plus 76,000 on Fox Sports — they saw a winning performance from the team and superstar striker Sam Kerr — Australia’s sports person of the year! Seven ran back to back eps of The Secret Daughter, 921,000 and 798,000. Not a good look for the future when a network does that. Tonight Ten is the place to be for Gogglebox Australia, the weekly dose of reality about TV. The Good Doc is on Seven.

In regional markets, Seven won easily, again with Seven News on top with 476,000, followed by Home and Away with 423,000, Seven News/Today Tonight was third with 415,000, then came The Secret Daughter with 391,000 and Instant Hotel was fifth with 365,000. — Read the rest on the Crikey website