Doggone it, pooches draw more than a million viewers

With Married At First Sight over (finally), Nine still eked out an overall win on Tuesday night. But the true winner of the evening? Dogs! 706,000 viewers for Ten’s The Dog House Australia and 525,000 for the ABC’s A Dog’s World with Tony Armstrong — that’s a total of 1.217 million fans of our four-legged friends. Schmackos all round, thanks!

Seven buried a nice little documentary titled Why Ships Crash — this intelligent doco, which included a very reasonable explanation of how that ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, deserved bigger numbers than 525,000.

It was Nine, Seven, Ten and the ABC across the main channels, with Ten and the ABC tied for third. And that was the night. 

Network channel share:

1. Nine (28.2%)
2. Seven (26.3%)
3. Ten (19.3%)
4. ABC (17.4%)
5. SBS (8.8%)

Network main channels:

1. Nine (20.9%)
2. Seven (17.4%)
3. Ten, ABC (12.2%)
4. SBS ONE (4.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

1. 7TWO (4.1%)
2. 7mate (3.3%)
3. 10 Peach (3.2%)
4. 10 Bold (2.9%)
5. ABC News (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 1.531 million
2. Seven News 6.30 — 1.438 million
3. Nine News 6.30 — 1.179 million
4. Nine News — 1.086 million
5. 7pm ABC News — 980,000
6. A Current Affair (Nine) — 902,000
7. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 890,000
8. Home and Away (Seven) — 803,000
9. 7.30 (ABC) — 752,000
10. The Dog House Australia (Ten) — 706,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers

Regional Top 5: Seven News, 555,000; Seven News 6.30, 528,000; 7pm ABC News, 329,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm; Home and Away, 320,000.

Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 966,000
2. Seven News 6.30 — 910,000
3. Nine News 6.30 — 889,000
4. Nine News — 880,000
5. 7pm ABC News — 651,000
6. ACA (Nine) — 632,000
7. 7.30 (ABC) — 509,000
8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 379,000
9. 10 News First — 285,000
10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 249,000

Morning (national) TV:

1. Sunrise (Seven)  —  422,000/256,000
2. ABC News Breakfast (ABC) — 323,000/215,000
3. Today (Nine)  —  302,000/201,000
4. ABC News Mornings — 258,000
5. The Morning Show (Seven) — 220,000
6. Today Extra (Nine) — 168,000
7. Studio 10 (Ten) — 39,000

Top 5 pay TV programs:

1. Credlin: The Campaign Uncovered (Sky News) — 64,000
2. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 53,000
3. Credlin (Sky News) — 51,000
4. The Bolt Report (sky News) — 49,000
5. NRL: 360 (Fox League) — 41,000