(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. Seven News – Seven – 1.503
2. Nine News – Nine – 1.329
3. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.265
4. A Current Affair – Nine – 1.128
5. ABC News – ABC1 – 0.982
6. Grumpy Guide (rpt) – ABC1 – 0.872
7. Ten News at Five – Ten – 0.851
8. 7:30 Report Summer Edition – ABC1 – 0.819
9. Criminal Minds (Mon rpt) – Seven – 0.813
10. Two and a Half Men – Nine – 0.811
11. How I Met Your Mother (rpt) – Seven – 0.774
12. ICU – Seven – 0.762
13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Nine – 0.714
14. Stephen Fry in America (rpt) – ABC1 – 0.692
15. The 7pm Project – Ten – 0.680
Glee (Mon rpt) – Ten – 0.567
A bunch of people back to work, and this includes TV. The 7pm Project comes back live instead of a summer/best of, and Ten itself prepares for the impending launch of Eleven. Glee is only highlighted to point out that a repeat is not what we should be seeing… AU is now 3 eps behind the US. In the words of the immortal Asterix: “Ye gods”. The 6pm News battle in SEQ is heating up between Ch7 & Ch9 with the former only beating the latter by the slimmest of margins. The Ashes 5th Cricket Test this week will likely help that also.