(Image: Supplied)
(Image: Supplied)

There is a familiar tune called “The Lost Patrol”, which was the original theme music for Four Corners eons ago. It springs to mind with another night of low ratings for Seven’s SAS Australia — 546,000, up 3000 from the second night and still well under Monday’s opening 642,000. The program is missing in action and needs rescuing, hence the need for a patrol to be dispatched from Seven’s programming and production department.

MAFS of course still dominates the battlefield, and last night’s antics were about, well, nothing much other than a lot of excitable tosh designed to get the juices flowing on social media: 1.261 million was more than enough to help Nine to a dominant win.

The ABC ran second behind Nine from 7pm: the 7pm News, 915,000 (second behind ACA with 997,000); 7.30, 726,000; Hard Quiz, 845,000; and Mad As Hell at 8.30, 713,000. Seven? Well, Seven’s patrol is still out in the rain, looking and wondering about what can be done to help SAS Australia, whose current season is looking very much like its one season too many so far as viewers are concerned.

Regional Top 5: Seven News, 505,000; Seven News 6.30, 483,000; MAFS, 353,000; Home and Away, 316,000; Nine News, 300,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (35.1%)
  2. Seven (25.1%)
  3. ABC (16.8%)
  4. Ten (14.8%)
  5. SBS (8.3%)


Network main channels:

  1. Nine (26.1%)
  2. Seven (18.1%)
  3. ABC (12.4%)
  4. Ten (8.7%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.5%)


Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7TWO (3.5%)
  2. Gem (3.3%)
  3. 10 Peach (3.1%)
  4. ABC News, GO (2.3%)


Top 10 national programs:

  1. Seven News 6.30 — 1.458 million
  2. Seven News — 1.380 million
  3. Married At First Sight (Nine) — 1.261 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 1.137 million
  5. Nine News — 1.131 million
  6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 997,000
  7. 7pm ABC News — 915,000
  8. Hard Quiz (ABC) — 845,000
  9. Home and Away (Seven) — 810,000
  10. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 738,000


Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers

Losers: SAS Australia.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 953,000
  2. Seven News 6.30 — 897,000
  3. Nine News 6.30 — 845,000
  4. Nine News — 831,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 711,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 637,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 490,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 355,000
  9. 10 News First  — 292,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 223,000


Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 397,000/235,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 317,000/210,000
  3. ABC News Breakfast (ABC) — 287,000/183,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — 202,000
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 178,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) — 41,000


Top 5 Pay TV programs: N/A

  1. MH 70: The Final Search (Sky News) — 108,000
  2. Credlin (Sky News) — 52,000
  3. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 51,000
  4. The Simpsons (Fox 8)  — 29,000
  5. The Kenny Report (Sky News) — 28,000