• Programming overview – many returning franchises with some new commissions
• The Drum will move to a new timeslot on ABC TV in 2019 with an expanded format.
• Seven has taken top spot in another week’s ratings with a win in primary share
• Seven’s All Together Now – The 100 #1 non-news
• The Bachelorette makes a choice
• Bride narrowly out-rates Bachelorette, but Ali wins the demos
• Seven’s win powered by H&A, B&P and The Good Doctor
• news.com.au was ranked number one in terms of highest unique audience (9.8 million)
Guthrie was sacked from the ABC in late September and just days later Milne resigned.
• Marty Sheargold helps HYBPA? add 100,000
Former MD Michelle Guthrie speaks for the first time about her sacking
Seven won the fourth-last week of survey for 2018 as it steered to victory on six nights in primary share.
• Music battle: Nine’s Queen doco out-rates Seven’s All Together Now
“I’m not a philanderer, I’m not a groper, I’m just a drunk idiot.”