MasterChef Australia (3rd – 1,045,000) wins the non-News night as expected, ahead of House Rules (8th – 924,000) which was also beaten by ep1 of The Big Bang Bang Theory (6th – 997,000). Criminal Minds (15th – 678,000) wins 8:30pm though only just ahead of the ABC double of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (16th – 643,000)/Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery (20th – 585,000) & Ten’s Madam Secretary (19th – 624,000).

Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Nine News – Ch9
6:30pm: Nine News 6:30 – Ch9
7:00pm: A Current Affair – Ch9
7:30pm: MasterChef Australia – Ch10
8:30pm: Criminal Minds – Ch7
9:30pm: Criminal Minds (rpt) – Ch7

Seven Network won the night (29%), followed by Nine Network (24.5%), Ten Network (22.5%), ABC Network (18.2%) & SBS (5.8%).