Nine return to The Block for ratings boost
Nine’s crossover of its old Domestic Blitz format featuring contestants from The Block helped the channel to a narrow win over Seven on Sunday.
Domestic Blitz – The Block to the Rescue, featuring the renovation of the home of two sister diagnosed with cervical cancer, averaged 1.359m metro viewers. Combined with solid ratings 60 Minutes and Nine News, Nine had a 23.8 per cent audience share over Seven’s 22.1 per cent.
However, Seven’s The X Factor was the top program of the night with a metro audience of 1.552m according to preliminary ratings from OzTAM.
Cricket fans also boosted Nine’s ratings with 571,000 metro viewers tuning into Nine’s digital station Gem for the fourth day of the third Ashes test, giving Gem 9.8 per cent of the audience share. The Ashes was also the top rating programming on subscription TV with 340,000 viewers tuning in to watch it on Fox Sports 2.
Architectural entertainment also rated highly for the ABC with a 10 minute episode of the Dream Build series, featuring Australians who have built their dream homes, rating sixth for the night with 1.006m viewers. The show was broadcast at 7.30pm before Grand Designs Revisited at 7.40pm which had 853,000 viewers.
Meanwhile Channel Seven’s second episode of Anh Does Britain had an audience of 954,000 at 7.40pm.
Nine’s Underbelly Squizzy at 9pm had 859,000 viewers across the five city metro.
On Channel Ten, MasterChef was the best performer of a bad night with 705,000 metro viewers at 7.30pm, followed by episodes of Ripper Street, which had an audience of 515,000 from 8.30pm to 9.40pm, and repeats of Modern Family and Ten News at Five.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- The X Factor Seven 1.552m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.493m
- Nine News Nine 1.419m
- Domestic Blitz The Block to the Rescue Nine 1.359m
- Seven News Seven 1.346m
- Dream Build ABC1 1.006m
- Anh Does Britain Seven 954,000
- Underbelly: Squizzy Nine 859,000
- Grand Designs Revisited ABC1 853,000
- ABC News ABC1 851,000
- Bones Seven 756,000
- The Time of Our Lives ABC1 734,000
- MasterChef Australia Ten 705,000
- ABC News Update ABC1 670,000
- Castle Seven 583,000
Sunday’s share:
- Nine 23.8%
- Seven 22.1%
- ABC1 12.0%
- Ten 10.2%
- Gem 9.8%
- 7TWO 3.7%
- GO! 3.5%
- 7mate 3.4%
- SBS ONE 3.0%
- ELEVEN 2.3%
- ABC2 2.0%
- ONE 2.0%
- ABC News 24 1.1%
- SBS 2 0.8%
- ABC3 0.3%
- NITV 0.1%
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