What is you opened a restaurant and hardly anyone was coming in through the front door after night three? Would you shut the doors to limit your losses, up the marketing spend, change the food, sack the chef, or just keep going in blind hope? Well, that’s the quandary for the Seven Network and its spluttering Restaurant Revolution which last night crashed and almost roasted itself – a bit like that mob masquerading as the Australian cricket test at Edgbaston last night. The only prime time program to worse than Restaurant Revolution last night was the latest episode of the self explanatory sci-fi drama-ette on the ABC called Glitch.

Restaurant Revolution had 705,000 national viewers down from 783,000 on Wednesday night. Its metro audience tumbled to just 415,000. It had 290,000 regional supporters. Nine’s The Hotplate had 860,000 national and 656,000 metro (and 204,000 regional viewers). The Bachelor on Ten did best of all – 1.002 million, including 263,000 in the regions and 739,000 in the metros. Looking at those figures and Seven’s Restaurant Revolution is the odd one out and Seven’s audience share and share of ad revenues will slide (or rather continue sliding). The Voice will give it a real whacking next week.

The Test cricket audience for Day 2’s first session was higher last night at 1.152 million (1.026 million on Wednesday night). Silly fools (like me), little did we know we were looking at the Gummie Bears playing at Edgabaston — the batting in the second innings was as appalling as the first innings. Glitch had 536,000 national viewers on the ABC at 8.30pm.

As a result of the cricket and the news and ACA, Nine won metro audience easily — both in the main channels and overall. But in the regions, Nine was a narrow winner overall because of the cricket on Gem, but Seven won the main channels, thanks to the combination of higher ratings for Home and Away and Restaurant Revolution – Go Figure!

In the morning Today had another metro win over Sunrise , 322,000 to 308,000 viewers. But nationally, Sunrise again won.

Network channel share:

  1. Nine (37.7%)
  2. Seven (23.4%)
  3. Ten (17.7%)
  4. ABC (14.4%)
  5. SBS (6.8%)

Network main channels:

  1. Nine (19.2%)
  2. Seven (14.7%)
  3. Ten (12.0%)
  4. ABC 1  (9.8%)
  5. SBS ONE (4.8%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. Gem (14.6%)
  2. 7TWO (5.7%)
  3. GO (4.0%)
  4. Eleven (3.7%)
  5. 7mate (3.0%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Nine News — 1.525 million
  2. Seven News — 1.238 million
  3. Home and Away (Seven) — 1.225 million
  4. ABC News – 1.157 million
  5. Third Ashes Cricket Test, Day 2, Session 1 (Gem) — 1.152 million
  6. Nine News 6.30 — 1.052 million
  7. A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.003 million
  8. The Bachelor (Ten) — 1.002 million
  9. 7.30 (ABC) — 974,000
  10. Seven News/ Today Tonight — 968,000

Top metro programs:

  1. Nine News — 1.088 million
  2. Nine News 6.30 — 1.052 million

Losers: Seven. It has a very, very tough decision to make on Restaurant Revolution.Metro news and current affairs:

  1. Nine News — 1.088 million
  2. Nine News 6.30 — 1.052 million
  3. Seven News — 941,000
  4. Seven News/Today Tonight— 911,000
  5. A Current Affair (Nine) — 835,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 791,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 655,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 628,000
  9. Ten Eyewitness News  — 590,000
  10. The Project 6.30 (Ten) — 449,000

Morning TV:

  1. Today (Nine) – 322,000
  2. Sunrise (Seven) – 308,000
  3. The Morning Show (Seven) — 124,000
  4. News Breakfast (ABC 1,  82,000 + 46,000 on News 24) — 128,000
  5. Mornings (Nine) — 113,000
  6. Studio 1o (Ten) — 48,000

Top five pay TV channels:

  1. Lifestyle(2.5%)
  2. Fox8  (2.1%)
  3. UKTV  (2.0%)
  4. UKTV (1.9%%)
  5. Fox Classics (1.7%)

Top five pay TV programs:

  1. AFL: 360 (Fox Footy) — 90,000
  2. The Simpsons (Fox8) — 83,000
  3. Doc McStuffins (Disney Jr) — 82,000
  4. Matty Johns Big Weekend (Fox Sports 1) — 79,000
  5. Village Vets Australia (LifeStyle) — 73,000

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