Hey Hey It’s the Same Old Same Old, and viewers were…

Hey Hey It’s the Same Old Same Old, and viewers were happy with it

Seven lazily went back to the past and once again strip-mined the archive of Hey Hey It’s Saturday’s “Red Faces” segment, showing a lack of any original ideas but nonetheless attracting 944,000. Ten at least tried something original with Hunted (a version of The Amazing Race?) and drew 859,000. Nine also did a bit of mining by reviving Beauty and the Geek — 615,000 tuned in, but maybe it’s one for the BVOD gang. Hunted might spark some BVOD interest as well — it’s back tonight, tomorrow night and then next Sunday.

The ABC started Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of The World — a snore but still 691,000. Also on the ABC — Insiders, with 593,000, which placed it back in the day’s national top 10.

Network channel share:

Seven (27.3%)
Nine (26.5%)
Ten (20.9%)
ABC (15.2%)
SBS (10.1%)

Network main channels:

Seven (20.4%)
Nine (19.4%)
Ten (15.3%)
ABC (11.5%)
SBS ONE (5.9%)

Top 5 digital channels:

7mate (3.6%)
10 Peach (2.5%)
7TWO, GO, 10 Bold (2.4%)

Top 10 national programs:

Seven News — 1.377 million
Nine News — 1.182 million
The Best of the Best and Worst of Red Faces (Seven) — 944,000
Hunted (Ten) — 859,000
7pm ABC News — 839,000
Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World (ABC) — 691,000
Beauty and the Geek (Nine) — 615,000
Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 593,000
60 Minutes (Nine) — 530,000
The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 522,000

Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.

Regional Top 5: Seven News, 464,000; The Best of the Best and Worst Red Faces, 352,000; Nine News, 337,000; 7pm ABC News, 266,000; Hunted, 241,000.

Losers: Seven, which ran out of ideas and went back to Hey Hey — again.

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