The primetime News battle heats up – Seven News (1st – 1,094,000) leads overall, closely followed by ABC News (2nd – 1,026,000) and Nine News (3rd – 1,016,000), but the real story is in the detail of who won each capital city:
BNE – Seven News
SYD – Nine News
MEL – Nine News
ADL – Seven News
PER – Seven News
Brynne: My Bedazzled Life (5th – 930,000) trumped the non-News programming as expected and with How I Met Your Mother (14th – 716,000) took out the important 7:30pm slot ahead of Big Brother (7pm 11th – 790,000; Confidential 8pm 9th – 806,000). The return of Beauty and the Geek Australia (8th – 892,000) saw away Rake (10th – 794,000) and retuning AFP (15th – 716,000) at 8:30pm too. Ray Hadley’s return to the small screen garnered little but enough interest with Inside (23rd – 496,000).
Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Seven News – Ch7
6:30pm: A Current Affair – Ch9
7:00pm: ABC News – ABC1
7:30pm: Brynne: My Bedazzled Life/How I Met Your Mother – Ch7
8:30pm: Beauty and Geek Australia – Ch7
9:30pm: Inside – Ch9
Channel 7 won the night (21.7%), followed by Channel 9 (18.5%), ABC1 (13.5%) & Channel 10 (12.4%).