A busy Wednesday night all around.
Channel 7
Seven lead their night with Home & Away (500,000) and then drop into the first night of the final of the ICC World Test Championship (563,000 S1; 338,000 lunch; 293,000 S2; 115,000 S3).
Seven first in both primary (24.4%) and network (32.5%) rankings.
Channel 9
Nine lands A Current Affair (654,000) with a timeslot win, as does Travel Guides (686,000) sneaking in front of the return of the ABC’s comedy favourite. A repeat of MOVIE: London Has Fallen (167,000) and New Amsterdam (26,000 BNE/MEL) maintain minor audiences into the late night, throwing in a mid-week Footy Classified (116,000 MEL/ALD/PER) for good measure.
Nine second in both primary (20.3%) and network (27.6%) rankings.
ABC
7:30 (433,000) and the season five premiere of Utopia (607,000) give the ABC a huge start to the night and boost their comedy Wednesday with a strong third place in primetime. The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (422,000) and In Limbo (187,000) follow, leading into repeats of QI (178,000), Take 5 with Zan Rowe (95,000), and Ragdoll (DNR).
ABC third in both primary (12.1%) and network (16.8%) rankings.
Channel 10
The Project (179,000 6:30pm; 262,000 7pm) drops into MasterChef Australia (399,000), both again reliably for 10 though both down on previous nights this week. North Shore (180,000) chugs along afterwards to diminishing numbers, pushing Law & Order: SVU (132,000) and Fire Country (55,000) later into the night with smaller audiences.
10 fourth in both primary (9%) and network (15.4%) rankings.
SBS
Another great episode of History of the Sitcom (64,000) opens the night for SBS, followed by The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild (88,000) and Blue Lights (42,000).
SBS fifth in both primary (3.1%) and network (7.7%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: ICC World Test Championship Day 1 S1 (109,000) led Travel Guides, Seven News 6:30pm, and Nine News 6pm/6:30pm.
18-49: ICC World Test Championship Day 1 S1 (183,000) beat out Travel Guides, Seven News 6:30pm/6pm, and Nine News 6pm.
25-54: Travel Guides (238,000) was followed by Seven News 6:30pm, Nine News 6pm, Seven News 6pm, and ICC World Test Championship Day 1 S1.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Ginger and the Vegesaurs – EV (118,000) delivers ABC Kids/TV Plus another win.
EVENING NEWS BATTLE
| Service | Time | O’nights (cume/avg) | Note |
| ABC News | 7pm-7:30pm | 510,000 | |
| SBS World News | 6:30pm-7:30pm | 113,000 | 137,000 6:30pm 89,000 7pm |
| Seven News | 6pm-7pm | 914,000 | 928,000 6pm 899,000 6:30pm |
| Nine News | 6pm-7pm | 828,000 | 830,000 6pm 826,000 6:30pm |
| 10 News First | 5pm-6:30pm | 233,000 5pm 155,000 6pm |
SBS World News averaged ((6:30pm+7pm)/2) to obtain total program figure.
Seven News/Nine News figures averaged ((6pm+6:30pm)/2) to obtain total program figure.
BREKKY BATTLE
Sunrise 226,000
The Today Show 191,000
ABC Breakfast 133,000 (85,000 ABC; 48,000 ABC News)
DAILY CONSOLIDATED 7 TOTAL TV
No changes to the previous week’s primetime line-up after the Total TV figures were added:
State of Origin – Game 1 (Nine) lifted 20% to 3,445,000;
MasterChef Australia (10) lifted 32% to 700,000; and
Code 1: Minute By Minute (Seven) lifted 11% to 412,000;
The BVOD best were State of Origin – Game 1 (549,000), State of Origin – Pre-Match (220,000), State of Origin – Post-Match (155,000), Home and Away (127,000), and MasterChef Australia (113,000).
Here’s the five shows that lifted the most from their overnight figures:
| Program | Network | Total TV | % lift |
| North Shore | 10 | 362,000 | 53 |
| In Limbo | ABC | 344,000 | 46 |
| MasterChef Australia | 10 | 700,000 | 32 |
| The Weekly with Charlie Pickering | ABC | 604,000 | 26 |
| Hard Quiz | ABC | 705,000 | 25 |
Primary Channels, Multi-Channels, Shares, Subscription TV, Key Demos, Brekky Battle: All figures Total People, Five City Metro (5CM); overnights only.
Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV: All figures Total People, Consolidated 7 day Five City Metro (5CM) + Regional (Reg) + BVOD (Broadcast Video on Demand); % lift compared to overnight figures.
Top 20 Overnight Metro
Top 20 Multi-Channel Shows
Overnight Network Share
Top 20 Foxtel Shows
Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV Program Rankings
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Note: Program performance and ranking information subject to change when not based on final program logs. Programs with the same name on one or more primary or multichannel, are aggregated into one network figure.
