House Rules final rates 2m for Seven
Seven’s House Rules saw a metro audience of 1.988m tune in to watch Victorian couple Adam Dovile and Lisa Lamond win the contest last night.
By comparison, last year’s House Rules winner announcement averaged a metro audience of 1.837m.
The House Rules winner announcement was most watched show of the night, according to the preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM. The grand final itself, which was coded separately, averaged 1.73m viewers.
Seven said that once regional audiences were factored in, the average winner annoucement audience rose to 3.121m.
Nine’s The Voice Kids averaged 1.255m, while Ten’s reality contender Masterchef rated 909,000.
The House Rules final helped Seven shows across the board. Seven News rated 1.324m, ahead of Nine News on 1.255m.
Seven’s Sunday Night beat Nine’s 60 Minutes by 1.289m to 999,000.
And Seven’s drama A Place To Call Home outrated Nine’s drama House Husbands by 957,000 to 754,000.
Seven easily won the night with a share of 30.3 per cent. Nine’s share was 19.6 per cent, followed by Ten on 12.8 per cent. ABC1 rated 10.5 per cent.
Meanwhile, there was also a late night battle of British sport, with Seven showing the men’s final from Wimbledon, SBS1 showing the Tour De France and Ten airing the British Formula One Grand Prix.
Ten’s grand prix coverage was hurt by an early crash leading to a lengthy delay before the race restarted. The live pre-race coverage rated 335,000 for Ten across the three city metro of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, making it 25th most watched program nationally. Live coverage of the race itself averaged 277,000 in the three cities.
SBS1’s coverage of the British stage of Tour De France was 26th for Sunday with a metro audience of 326,000.
And Seven’s Wimbledon coverage rated 324,000, although this did not include the whole final as the game went beyond the 2am overnight ratings cutoff. It was 27th for Sunday.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- House Rules winner announced – Seven – 1.988m
- House Rules grand final – Seven – 1.73m
- Seven News – 1.324m
- Sunday Night – Seven – 1.289m
- The Voice Kids – Nine – 1.255m
- Nine News – 1.255m
- 60 Minutes – Nine – 999,000
- A Place To Call Home – Seven – 957,000
- Masterchef – Ten – 909,000
- Grand Designs – ABC1 – 779,000
- House Husbands – Nine – 754,000
- ABC News – ABC1 – 708,000
- The Checkout snack size – ABC1 – 682,000
- Silent Witness – ABC1 – 641,000
- ABC News Update – ABC1 – 628,000
Sunday’s share:
- Seven – 30.3%
- Nine – 19.6%
- Ten – 12.8%
- ABC1 – 10.5%
- SBS One – 4.7%
- 7Mate – 4.3%
- Go – 3.4%
- 7Two – 3.3%
- One – 3%
- Gem – 2.1%
- Eleven – 2.1%
- ABC2 – 1.8%
- ABC News 24 – 0.9%
- ABC3 – 0.7%
- SBS Two – 0.5%
- NITV – 0.1%
More follows shortly.
Tim Burrowes