Today beats Sunrise at breakfast, The Block wins the night

In the battle for the early morning viewer, Nine’s Today was back on top, beating Seven’s Sunrise for the first time in over a fortnight – but by just 11,000 viewers.

Today rated with 338,000 while Sunrise took 327,000. Ten’s new show Breakfast pulled in 47,000 viewers.

The third episode of Bike Wars: Brothers in Arms staged something of a recovery for Ten, up from 905,000 last week to 959,000 last night – but is way off its 1.2m debut.

The show ranked outside of the top ten, but performed well in the key advertising demographics, particularly 25-54. Overall, it was well beaten in the 8.30pm time slot by Packed to the Rafters on Seven, which rated with 1.337m.