Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds
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Seven won the night in total people from Nine (by 0.3% and the main channels by 0.1%) and boasted about it. But Seven won’t tell you the real result: Big Brother is a failure after just two eps, joining My Kitchen Rules and House Rules from 2020 as spectacular own goals.

Last night Big Brother (881,000 nationally) and Ten’s struggling MasterChef Australia (790,000) were beaten in total people by Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds on the ABC from 8.30 with 888,000. Fancy that. An unpretentious program starring a bunch of gorgeous four-years-olds and some very accommodating oldies proving to be more popular than the multimillion-dollar flops on Seven and Ten.

Ten was third in total people but the ABC again slipped past into third in main channels as MasterChef again underperformed. Seven’s Home and Away had a rare one million-plus national audience (1.03 million) and an equally rare regional high (recent) of 404,000. Nine’s Lego Masters averaged 981,000.

Nine started a US “hit” called Resident Alien after Lego at 8.50pm — 360,000 nationally; 521,000 viewers didn’t hang round, so, gone, going, gone. Alf, Third Rock from the Sun, Mork and Mindy and of course My Favourite Martian all did the alien shtick far better and funnier.

Breakfast: Sunrise, 453,000 nationally and 264,000 metro; Today, 336,000 and 237,000; News Breakfast, 265,000 and 171,000.

Regional top five: Seven News, 633,000; Seven News 6.30, 613,000; Home and Away, 404,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 349,000; 7.30, 342,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (28.1%)
  2. Nine (27.8%)
  3. Ten (19.4%)
  4. ABC (17.3%)
  5. SBS (7.4%)


Network main channels:

  1. Seven (20.1%)
  2. Seven (20.0%)
  3. ABC (13.3%)
  4. Ten (12.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.3%)


Top 3 digital channels:

  1. 7TWO, 10 Bold (3.3%)
  2. 10 Peach, 7mate (2.8%)
  3. GO (2.0%)


Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.598 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.586 million
  3. Nine News — 1.240 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.226 million
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.058 million
  6. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.033 million
  7. Lego Masters (Nine) — 981,000
  8. 7pm ABC News — 961,000
  9. 7.30 ABC — 929,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 888,000


Top metro programs: no program with a million or more viewers.

Losers: Big Brother and MasterChef Australia

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News 6.30 —973,000
  2. Seven News — 965,000
  3. Nine News — 959,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 —933,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 740,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 635,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 588,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 480,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 392,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 282,000


Morning (national) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 453,000/264,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 336,000/237,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) —265,000/171,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 206,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 160,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 53,000


Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 71,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 60,000
  3. Credlin (Sky News) — 59,000
  4. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 58,000
  5. Alan Jones (Sky News) — 57,000