Nine wins Wednesday night despite a great night for the ABC

ABC has had one of its best nights of TV in recent weeks, with Utopia bringing in 711,000 metro viewers to win the 9pm slot and Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell hitting a series high of 683,000.

But despite the public broadcaster’s best efforts, Nine took the win overall, holding a 26.7% audience share as a network and a channel share of 20.2%, thanks mostly to the success of The Block which won the 7:30pm slot with 803,000 metro viewers.

Mad As Hell hit a series high on Wednesday night