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Gogglebox
has gone for a rest, leaving MasterChef as the only moderately interesting program on TV last night — 747,000 and tenth nationally, down an odd 20,000 viewers from the week before. Still it beat a boring NRL game between Canberra and Souths (566,000). Seven’s The Front Bar had 449,000, with 214,000 of those in Melbourne, the fifth most-watched program in that market. It’s probably why Seven just got home from Nine — 18.9% to 18.1% in the main channels.

Q+A — 364,000 last night, down from a week ago. Still anodyne, boring, predictable, bubble speak. Any more? NRL tonight is the battle of south-east Queensland — Brisbane v the Gold Coast. Not too many people in Sydney or Melbourne will care.

Regional top five: Seven News, 529,000; Seven News 6.30, 516,000; Home and Away, 313,000; 7pm ABC News, 312,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 291,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (28.7%)
  2. Nine (26.2%)
  3. Ten (20.6%)
  4. ABC (15.7%)
  5. SBS (8.7%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (18.9%)
  2. Nine (18.1%)
  3. Ten (13.3%)
  4. ABC (10.6%)
  5. SBS ONE (5.3%)

Top 5 digital channels:

  1. 7mate (4.2%)
  2. 7TWO (3.7%)
  3. 10 Bold (3.6%)
  4. 10 Peach (2.9%)
  5. ABC Kids/Comedy/Plus (2.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.497 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.446 million
  3. Nine News — 1.180 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.143 million
  5. 7pm ABC News — 939,000
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 876,000
  7. Home and Away (Seven) — 836,000
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 763,000
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 762,000
  10. Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 747,000

Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Losers: Q+A. A very tiresome program.

Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Seven News —968,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 930,000
  3. Nine News — 906,000
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 876,000
  5. 7pm ABC News — 627,000
  6. ACA (Nine) — 618,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 508,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 400,000
  9. Ten News First — 344,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 272,000


Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 452,000/256,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 303,000/204,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 280,000/183,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 213,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 123,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 60,000


Top five pay TV programs:

  1. NRL: Canberra vsSouths (Fox League) — 244,000
  2. NRL: The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 107,000
  3. NRL: Pre-Game Thursday (Fox League) — 85,000
  4. Credlin (Sky News) — 72,000
  5. Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery), The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 58,000