(5 city metro combined – all figures in millions)
1. Seven News – Seven – 1.172
2. Today Tonight – Seven – 1.025
3. Nine News – Nine – 0.997
4. A Current Affair – Nine – 0.962
5. ABC News – ABC1 – 0.936
6. Recruits – TEN – 0.830
7. 7:30 Report – ABC1 – 0.828
8. MOVIE: Meet The Fockers – Seven – 0.821
8. Rush – TEN – 0.821
10. Bondi Vet (Rpt) – Ten – 0.817
11. The 7pm Project – Ten – 0.802
12. Two and a Half Men (Rpt) – Nine – 0.755
13. Ten News at Five – Ten – 0.724
14. Rake – ABC1 – 0.707
15. The Amazing Race – Seven – 0.688
Sleek Geeks – ABC1 – 0.647
Hot Seat – Nine – 0.508
Deal or No Deal (Summer) – Seven – 0.448
Sunrise – Seven – 0.416
Today – Nine – 0.336
Seven News at 4:30 – Seven – 0.278
Nine Afternoon News – 0.237
The second last episode of Recruits performed well for Channel 10 on what is normally a quiet night on TV – and showed again that coupled with a repeat of Bondi Vet Ch10 can program well (when they have the content). Fittingly the 7:30pm Report was up due to Kerry O’Brien’s final hosting gig on it. Friday’s episode is a tribute to Kerry & his reign at the front of one of the country’s consistently solid current affairs shows. Also good work from The 7pm Project again – keep that up. Rake slid a little, but still doing well (and it’s new content for the non-ratings period – get involved now!). That Meet The Fockers slid into the top 10 for Channel 7 simply shows that the networks aren’t really taking their programming too seriously this side of Christmas.