Today Extra beats The Morning Show

Another battle has been underway in mornings this week with Today Extra defeating The Morning Show for the second day in a row.

Today Extra drew 167,000 / 147,000 just pipping The Morning Show at 164,000 / 137,000.  Studio 10 trailed at some distance on 67,000 / 57,000.

But Sunrise injected space between Today at 285,000 and 251,000, respectively. News Breakfast drew 136,000 / 84,000.

In primetime an extended Home & Away was the top entertainment drawcard at 605,000 / 503,000. 7:30 was 584,000 then Foreign Correspondent (458,000) and a double dose of The Bachelor (412,000).

Later The Front Bar drew 349,000 across the network then Q+A (305,000).

Thursday Night NRL was 373,000 across the network.

Seven network won Thursday with 29.3% then Nine 28.3%, 10 18.7%, ABC 16.7% and SBS 7.1%.

Seven News was #1 at 1.16m / 1.1m for Seven. The Chase drew 574,000 / 321,000. My Impossible House was 123,000 in 2 cities.

Nine News was 1.05m / 979,000 for Nine. A Current Affair was 713,000 then Hot Seat (506,000 / 320,000). In select cities were RBT (230,000) and Australian Crime Stories (159,000).

The Project was 468,000 / 280,000. 10 News First was 429,000 / 238,000 then Law & Order: SVU (175,000).

ABC News won its slot at 730,000. Sammy J (363,000), The Drum (183,000) and Fake or Fortune? (175,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (168,000 / 130,000), Great Asian Railways Journeys (153,000), Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve (127,000) and The Good Fight (45,000)

ABC News Mornings led multichannels at 180,000

OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 12 August 2021