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Another night for Seven — closest this week as it successfully brought us RFDS, a modern version of Nine’s old Flying Doctors; just as Farmer Wants A Wife is a more modern remake of Nine’s effort.

The reunion special of Farmer‘ was the most watched non-news program last night, pregnancy mystery (who’s The Daddy?) and all. It averaged 1.37 million nationally with more than half a million in the regions. Will A Current Affair get to the bottom of this paternal mystery? Where is New Idea and Woman’s Day when you need them?

Perhaps RFDS can make a future ep about the delivery. It averaged 1.03 million, meaning it hung onto a decent slab of Farmer’s audience.

All this meant it was another a sub par outing for Nine’s The Block which struggled with 849,000. Ten’s The Bachelor also struggled — just 493,000. That’s not a very good figure. The Bach ran for 90 minutes from 7.30pm, the ABC averaged 723,000 across the same timeslot. Even the ABC’s appalling Win The Week had the measure of Ten last night, averaging 524,000 for the half hour from 8pm. 7.30 averaged 884,000 and the final ep of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell averaged 760,000.

Careful readers will note that 360,000 ABC viewers abandoned Win The Week from 7.30, but 246,000 viewers rejoined the ABC for Mad As Hell. ABC viewers can spot a turkey.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (31.4%)
  2. Nine (28.2%)
  3. Ten (17.0%)
  4. ABC (15.9%)
  5. SBS (7.5%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (22.7%)
  2. Nine (19.7%)
  3. ABC (11.2%)
  4. Ten (11.0%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.2%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (3.6%)
  2. 7TWO, 10 Bold (3.2%)
  3. GO (2.7%)
  4. Gem, 10 Peach (2.5%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News — 1.859 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.816 million
  3. Nine News  — 1.433 million
  4. Farer Wants A Wife (Seven) — 1.370 million
  5. Nine News 6.30 — 1.355 million
  6. Home And Away (Seven) — 1.187 million
  7. 7pm ABC News — 1.096 million
  8. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.066 million
  9. RFDS (Seven) — 1.035 million
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.015 million

Top metro programs: 
1. Seven News  — 1.178 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.162 million
3. Nine News —1.081 million
4 Nine News 6.30 — 1.031 million

Losers: The Bachelor… weak, again. It won’t Win The Week,nor will The Block.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 1.178 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 —1.162 million
  3. Nine News — 1.081 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 —1.031 million
  5. ACA (Nine) — 779,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 713,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 606,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 530,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 431,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 324,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 460,000/274,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 385,000/270,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 372,000/245,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 257,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 240,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  66,000

Top five Pay TV programs: 

  1. Credlin, Alan Jones (Sky News) — 77,000
  2. The Bolt Report, Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 75,000
  3. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 59,000