TV ratings

Monday ratings blues for Ten

Melbourne Cup rides into first place as local drama holds just six slots in top 100

Recruits: Paramedics is Ten’s top-rating Thursday night show – with 726,000 1

Melbourne Cup races to 2.3m, but down 10% on last year 4

Today beats Sunrise but Seven dominates Tuesday ratings 3

Housos debut pulls in 284,000 for SBS in Monday night ratings 5

Rugby World Cup final pulls in 1.2m for Nine, second highest ratings ever for pay TV 1

Nine’s Two and a Half Men sheds viewers as Seven dominates 4

Kyle and Jackie O to host TV talk show on Seven 11

The Big Bang Theory wins Monday night with 1.5m 1

Today in New York beats Sunrise on Thursday 1

Today in New York edges closer to Sunrise while Charlie’s Angels gets shifted to Go! 2

New series of Big Bang a hit for Nine on Monday 1

Mumbrellacast: Coke gets personal; pranking Panasonic; Meatloaf’s bum notes; Hamster Wheel debut; RIP Steve Jobs

The Slap debuts with 946,000 9

Former Today EP Anthony Flannery joins Ten to head up news and current affairs

Junior Masterchef slides to 770,000 as The Farmer Wants A Wife finale pulls over 1m 9

Hamish and Andy go out with 883,000 5