A mixed up night but a big win for The X Factor Australia (1st – 1,552,000), beating Domestic Blitz – The Block to the Rescue (4th – 1,359,000) but both doing great business for their respective network at 6:30pm. The lead in helps Anh Does Britain (7th – 954,000) and even though pushed back Underbelly: Squizzy (8th – 859,000) does enough to win the late slot – while Ripper Street (17th – 515,000) flounders on Ten. MasterChef Australia (13th – 705,000) just hanging in there.

Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Nine News – Ch9
6:30pm: The X Factor Australia – Ch7
7:30pm: Domestic Blitz/60 Minutes – Ch9
8:30pm: 60 Minutes/Underbelly Squizzy – Ch9
9:30pm: Castle – Ch7

Channel 9 won the night (23.8%), followed by Channel 7 (22.1%), ABC1 (12%) & Channel 10 (10.2%).