(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)

1. Seven News – Seven – 1.377
2. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.266
3. Nine News – Nine – 1.116
4. ABC News – ABC – 1.056
5. A Current Affair – Nine – 1.030
6. Home and Away – Seven – 0.953
7. Beauty and the Geek – Seven – 0.931
8. Bondi Vet – Ten – 0.923
9. Keeping up with the Joneses – Ten – 0.909
10. Rake – ABC – 0.900
11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Nine – 0.894
12. Getaway – Nine – 0.858
13. Rush – Ten – 0.773
14. The Amazing Race – Seven – 0.772
15. Ten News – Ten – 0.758

Two and a Half Men – Nine – 0.758m
The 7PM Project – Ten – 0.729m
How I Met Your Mother (Ep1) – Seven – 0.690m
Cops LAC (Ep1) – Nine – 0.599m
Deal or No Deal – Seven – 0.596m
Hot Seat – Nine – 0.573m
Burn Notice – Ten – 0.554m
How I Met Your Mother (Ep2) – Seven – 0.510m
Cops LAC (Ep2) – Nine – 0.410m

Channel 7 (28.4%) & Channel 9 (27.9%) a lot tighter in last night’s results (overall combined), however Channel 10 (18.6%) a distant third in a tie with the ABC. A much tighter race, although Ch7 lead with the highest non-news content in Home & Away & Beauty and the Geek. Again, Bondi Vet/Keeping up with the Joneses won at 7:30pm, but overall the night was not great. A segment of the CSI audience will have been diverted to ABC1 for the first episode of Rake, looking promising for future weeks. Cops LAC needs to be taken out the back & be put out of it’s misery  – now. Bury the remaining eps on GO! or GEM. Please. Also given the lacklustre results for the latest season of The Amazing Race, this must lead Ch7 execs to question their commitment to the Australian version.