(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. Seven News – Seven – 1.516
2. Junior Masterchef – Ten – 1.440
3. Bones – Seven – 1.406
4. Sunday Night – Seven – 1.262
5. The X Factor – Seven – 1.248
6. Nine News – Nine – 1.154
7. Modern Family (Ep2) – Ten – 1.057
8. Poirot – ABC – 1.054
9. ABC News Update – ABC – 0.916
10. Castle – Seven – 0.905
11. Last Chance to See – ABC – 0.883
12. ABC News – ABC – 0.872
13. Modern Family (Ep1) – Ten – 0.724
14. One Day Cricket (Session 2) – Nine – 0.720
15. One Day Cricket (Session 1) – Nine – 0.714
ARIA Music Awards – Ten – 0.624m
If Channel 10 & ARIA do not learn from this result for the ARIA Music Awards, then they deserve what’s coming to them. Deplorable. Junior MasterChef & Modern Family – as good as they are – cannot save the station from implosion. Bring on Packer/Murdoch to salvage this operation. With the absence of 60 Minutes on our screens, Ch7’s Sunday Night is making good in-roads re-establishing itself as a credible option for actual current affairs. A rare win in very short time for the One Day Cricket offered no favours to Channel 9… who must also be wondering what the hell happened to the Cricket which used to kill in the ratings for them. It’s a rebuilding time for everyone.