What is Thursday if not for too much sport?
Channel 7
Home & Away (359,000 (263,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER; 96,000 7TWO MEL/ADL))
lines up Seven’s night in preparation for a split between
Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (396,000 (318,000 Seven MEL/ADL; 78,000 7mate BNE/SYD/PER))
or
a repeat of Highway Patrol Special (163,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER),
and a new ep of Britain’s Got Talent (109,000 Seven BNE/SYD/PER).
The evening reconciles with the underwhelming
Fantasy Island (39,000).
Seven first in both primary (23.5%) and network (32.6%) rankings.
Channel 9
A Current Affair (569,000)
led Nine’s night, before it split into
Women’s State of Origin (311,000 (281,000 Nine BNE/SYD; 30,000 9Gem MEL/ADL/PER))
OR
RBT (140,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER),
a repeat of Paramedics (109,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER),
and Casualty 24/7 (86,000 Nine MEL/ADL/PER),
OR
Women’s Ashes Day 1 S1 (75,000 9Gem)
The night resolves in the late night with A+E After Dark (90,000).
Nine second in both primary (19.7%) and network (28.9%) rankings.
ABC
The ABC continue to struggle with their Thursday night. 7:30 (376,000) and the season finale of Miriam & Alan: Lost In Scotland and Beyond (234,000) draw a smaller audience, while Grand Designs New Zealand (168,000) and One Plus One – The Elders (106,000) slip a little further. Repeats of Art Works (47,000) and Flyways: The Story of Migratory Shorebirds (DNR) fill out the remaining hours.
ABC third in primary (9.7%) and fourth in network (15%) rankings.
Channel 10
The Project (176,000 6:30pm; 236,000 7pm) and MasterChef Australia (371,000) lifts a little on last night’s smaller audience though still not as big as earlier in the week…and yet just misses out on first place in primetime. The First Inventors (150,000) maintains its average from last week’s premiere, before repeats of The Cheap Seats (87,000) and Law & Order: SVU (42,000) close out the schedule.
10 fourth in primary (9.2%) and third in network (15.3%) rankings.
SBS
A lift on last night’s audience for SBS, running through Inside Sydney Airport (110,000), The Devil’s Confession: Lost Eichmann Tapes (94,000), and Normal People (42,000).
SBS fifth in both primary (3.8%) and network (8.1%) rankings.
KEY DEMOS
16-39: Seven News 6:30pm (86,000) beat Nine News 6:30pm, Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football, Nine News 6pm, and Seven News 6pm.
18-49: Seven News 6:30pm (178,000) led Seven News 6pm, Nine News 6pm/6:30pm, and Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football.
25-54: Seven News 6:30pm (228,000) scores a triple-demo win for Seven, followed by Seven News 6pm, Nine News 6pm/6:30pm, and Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football.
MULTI-CHANNELS
Octonauts (109,000) offers another multi-channel win to ABC Kids/TV Plus.
EVENING NEWS BATTLE
| Service | Time | O’nights (cume/avg) | Note |
| ABC News | 7pm-7:30pm | 554,000 | |
| SBS World News | 6:30pm-7:30pm | 124,000 | 147,000 6:30pm 100,000 7pm |
| Seven News | 6pm-7pm | 887,000 | 896,000 6pm 877,000 6:30pm |
| Nine News | 6pm-7pm | 779,000 | 788,000 6pm 770,000 6:30pm |
| 10 News First | 5pm-6:30pm | 219,000 5pm 147,000 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 217,000
The Today Show 197,000
ABC Breakfast 139,000 (90,000 ABC; 49,000 ABC News)
DAILY CONSOLIDATED 7 TOTAL TV
No changes to the previous week’s primetime line-up after the Total TV figures were added: Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football (Seven) lifted 1% to 599,000/Home and Away – Late (Seven) lifted 33% to 794,000; MasterChef Australia (10) lifted 35% to 715,000; and Space Invaders (Nine) DNR.
The BVOD best were Home and Away – Late (140,000), Home and Away (137,000), and MasterChef Australia (103,000).
Here’s the five shows that lifted the most from their overnight figures:
| Program | Network | Total TV | % lift |
| MasterChef Australia | 10 | 715,000 | 35 |
| Home and Away – Late | Seven | 794,000 | 33 |
| Home and Away | Seven | 842,000 | 31 |
| The First Inventors | 10 | 327,000 | 21 |
| Miriam & Alan: Lost in Scotland and Beyond | ABC | 395,000 | 12 |
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.
