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:
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- Seven (28.7%)
- Nine (26.2%)
- Ten (20.6%)
- ABC (15.7%)
- SBS (8.7%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.9%)
- Nine (18.1%)
- Ten (13.3%)
- ABC (10.6%)
- SBS ONE (5.3%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.2%)
- 7TWO (3.7%)
- 10 Bold (3.6%)
- 10 Peach (2.9%)
- ABC Kids/Comedy/Plus (2.8%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.497 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.446 million
- Nine News — 1.180 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.143 million
- 7pm ABC News — 939,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 876,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 836,000
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 763,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 762,000
- 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:
- Seven News —968,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 930,000
- Nine News — 906,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 876,000
- 7pm ABC News — 627,000
- ACA (Nine) — 618,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 508,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 400,000
- Ten News First — 344,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 272,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 452,000/256,000
- Today (Nine) — 303,000/204,000
- News Breakfast (ABC) — 280,000/183,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 213,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 123,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 60,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- NRL: Canberra vsSouths (Fox League) — 244,000
- NRL: The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 107,000
- NRL: Pre-Game Thursday (Fox League) — 85,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 72,000
- Outback Opal Hunters (Discovery), The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 58,000
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Pity about the Q and A ratings. I thought it was a really good show last night. Politicians (McKenzie and Butler) speaking reasonably and respectfully was refreshing. Maybe it needs to move back to the old Monday slot.
We have really enjoyed Q&A since Hamish took over from Tony Jones. Jones was not a moderator as is Hamish.
The time slot for Q&A isn’t working at all. The fact that they endlessly advertise it on a Monday shows that the ABC knows it too.
I use to enjoy Qanda and the ABC for years,
The problem with QandA is that since they have all this identity crap and and racist junk on, normal trade’s and house wives and other Australians are just not interested in these attitudes now leading on QandA.
People just want a fair and honest point of view from both side with the MC not being WOKE and there are other and more important issues than these made-up ones.
The last year or so they are the same program just different guests. Boring and annoying Bring back some fair and interesting topics