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The Hotplate finale gets lukewarm numbers, ABC comedy Utopia attracts 769,000 viewers

The season finale of Nine reality show The Hotplate on Network Nine failed to attract the big finale ratings numbers its cooking show counterparts Masterchef and My Kitchen Rules last night.

Contestant's Emi and Marie won The Hotplate last night.

Contestant’s Emi and Marie won The Hotplate last night.

The Hotplate attracted 850,000 metro viewers for the winner announcement, which saw Brisbane friends Emi and Marie take out the $100,000 prize. By comparison 2.13m tuned in to watch contestant Billie take out the Masterchef title and 2.082m saw Will and Steve win the My Kitchen Rules competition.

Australian comedy Utopia was up on last week drawing 769,000 and while The Bachelor remained the highest performing entertainment show of the night, with 984,000 tuning in, up on 906,000 from last Thursday.Reality TV shows The Force and Border Security drew 758,000 and 778,000 respectively, while the season finale of Charlie Pickering’s The Weekly pulled 704,000.

Despite not reaching the heights of Masterchef and MKR, The Hotplate, Nine still led audience share with a 20.0 per cent on its main channel. Seven was second with 16.5 per cent, ahead of Network TEN with 15.6 per cent. The ABC enjoyed 13.8 per cent and 7TWO got fifth place with 5.8 per cent of audience share.

Nine’s news program drew in 1.106m viewers, pulling away from Network Seven with only 924,000. This was ahead of ABC news (851,000) and Ten Eyewitness news (559,000).

The breakfast shows battled with Sunrise getting 343,000, beating Nine’s Today with 310,000.

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly used last week’s ratings numbers.

Top 15 shows
1 NINE NEWS Network Nine 1,066,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network Nine 1,049,000
3 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA WED Network TEN 984,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Network Seven 970,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network Seven 955,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network Nine 953,000
7 THE HOTPLATE – WINNER ANNOUNCED Network Nine 850,000
8 ABC NEWS Network ABC 844,000
9 THE HOTPLATE – GRAND FINAL Network Nine 783,000
10 THE FORCE – BEHIND THE LINE Network Seven 778,000
11 UTOPIA-EV Network ABC 769,000
12 HOME AND AWAY Network Seven 768,000
13 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 765,000
14 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Network Seven 758,000
15 THE WEEKLY WITH CHARLIE PICKERING-EV Network ABC 704,000

Audience share
Network 9 20.0%
Network 7 16.5%
Network TEN 15.6%
Network ABC 13.8%
Network 7TWO 5.8%
Network 7mate 3.6%
Network SBS 4.8%
Network GO! 4.2%
Network Gem 3.5%
Network ELEVEN 3.3%
Network ABC2 3.2%
Network ONE 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.4%
Network SBS 2 1.3%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.1%

Total audience share
Network 9 TTL 27.7%
Network 7 TTL 26.0%
Network TEN TTL 21.1%
Network ABC TTL 19.0%
Network SBS TTL 6.2%

Data OzTAM Pty Limited 2015. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.

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