Bachelorette tops ratings week

The Bachelorette has topped the week with the moment Sophie Monk chose publican Stu Landy pulling 1.64m viewers. Together with Gogglebox, TEN pulled their biggest night of the year on Thursday -a 30.2% share.

But the week went to Seven thanks multichannels pushing it ahead of Nine. The latter would have won but the Rugby League World Cup drew a hefty audience of 847,000 -bigger than any NRL match this year.

Network:
Seven: 28.6
Nine: 27.0
TEN: 18.8
ABC: 18.7
SBS: 7.0

Primary channel:
Nine: 19.7
Seven: 18.5
TEN: 14.2
ABC: 13.9
SBS: 4.9

Multichannel:
7TWO: 4.1
7mate: 3.8
9GO!: 3.1
ABC2: 3.0
ONE: 2.5
9GEM: 2.3
7flix / ELEVEN: 2.1
9Life: 1.9
ABC News: 1.3
SBS Food Network / SBS VICELAND: 1.0
ABC ME: 0.5
NITV: 0.1

Nine still held the demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.

Best brands this week were:

Seven: Seven News (Sun: 976,000), Rugby League World Cup (847,000), Home and Away (659,000) and Sunday Night (588,000).

Nine: The Block (Sun: 1.51m), Nine News (Sun: 1.04m), 60 Minutes (853,000) and The Big Bang Theory (743,000).

TEN: The Bachelorette (Final Decision: 1.64m), Gogglebox (954,000), Have You Been Paying Attention? (782,000) and Sisters (624,000).

ABC: The Doctor Blake Mysteries (944,000), Doc Martin (939,000), Gruen (848,000), ABC News (786,000).

SBS: Great British Railway Journeys (325,000), Great American Railway Journeys (316,000), The Secret Life of Queen Victoria (271,000), Extreme Railway Journeys (261,000).

Seven won Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Nine scored Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. TEN claimed Thursday. TEN bettered Nine on Wednesday while ABC bettered TEN on Sunday, Monday and Saturday.

Seven was victorious in all cities except Melbourne which fell to Nine.

Including this week there are just 5 more weeks of ratings.