Seven rises while McLeods sinks

Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

Seven won last week, with 29.4 per cent of the prime time audience, thanks to The Force (1.7m in the mainland capitals), a repeat of Border Security , RSPCA Animal Rescue and the Monday to Friday news, but Nine managed 27 per cent with the help of 60 Minutes  (1.7m), Nine news Sunday and Domestic Blitz . (Ed note: Unfortunately for Nine the much anticipated final season of McLeod's Daughters is of to a poor start attracting only 880,000 viewers on Wednesday night).

The ABC scored 18.1 per cent with The Gruen Transfer , Spicks and Specks , and Foyle's War, while Ten got 20 per cent even though its only entries in the Top 40 were a repeat of Thank God You're Here and a repeat of NCIS (1.2m).

On SBS, Top Gear drew 938,000 and a repeat of Food Safari drew 392,000, while on Pay TV, NRL Cowboys V Roosters drew 307,000 to Fox Sports 2, NRL Sharks V Dragons drew 263,000 to Fox Sports 2, a repeat of Family Guy on Fox 8 got 187,000 and Project Runway Australia on Arena got 175,000.

What Australia watched, week ending August 2
1 60 MINUTES Network 9 1,667,000
2 THE FORCE Network 7 1,662,000
3 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Network 9 1,627,000
4 BORDER SECURITY (R) Network 7 1,616,000
5 RSPCA ANIMAL RESCUE Network 7 1,584,000
6 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,558,000
7 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Network 7 1,552,000
8 DOMESTIC BLITZ Network 9 1,551,000
9 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Network 7 1,544,000
10 CITY HOMICIDE Network 7 1,533,000
11 MEDICAL EMERGENCY Network 7 1,506,000
12 THE FARMER WANTS A WIFE Network 9 1,492,000
13 WIPEOUT Network 9 1,482,000
14 THE GRUEN TRANSFER Network ABC1 1,450,000
15 THE ONE - AUSTRALIA'S MOST GIFTED PSYCHIC Network 7 1,449,000