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Return of My Kitchen Rules pulls 1.441m for Seven following Easter break

My Kitchen Rules The return of My Kitchen Rules after a week-long Easter break pulled an audience of 1.441m for Seven and was the most watched show across all demographics, handing the channel a winning audience share of 23.5 per cent.

Nine grabbed an audience share of 21 per cent while the ABC claimed third place with a share of 15.3 per cent as Ten managed a share of 10.4 per cent.

Nine’s The Block: Triple Threat was watched by 986,000 in the same 7.30pm timeslot, down from last week’s audience of 1.111m.

Ten did not air its US sitcom The Odd Couple last night due to the Easter long weekend, airing in its place two episodes of Modern Family. The 7.30pm episode was watched by 409,000 while the 8pm episode had an audience of 387,000.

The 7.30pm episode was out-rated by the ABC’s 7.30 which was watched by 760,000 metro viewers.

Australian Story at 8pm pulled in 741,000 metro viewers while Four Corners at 8.30pm had an audience of 738,000. Media Watch at 9.20pm which featured an extended interview with Nine Entertainment Co CEO David Gyngell grabbed 673,000 metro viewers and Q&A at 9.30pm was watched by 504,000.

On Nine, a repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory at 8.45pm pulled in 988,000 viewers, dropping to 760,000 metro viewers for a second repeat episode at 9.15pm.

In the 9pm timeslot on Seven, Revenge grabbed a metro audience of 651,000, up on last week’s audience of 561,000. In time-shifted viewing, last week’s episode of Revenge was watched by an extra 126,000 viewers, taking its total audience to 687,000.

In news, Seven News at 6pm just managed to win the night with a metro audience of 1.238m, just ahead of Nine News at 6pm which had an audience of 1.217m. Seven News or Today Tonight at 6.30pm was watched by 1.182m while Nine News at 6.30pm had an audience of 1.118m.

Top 15 Shows:

1 MY KITCHEN RULES-MON Network 7 1,441,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,238,000
3 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,217,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 1,182,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,118,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,050,000
7 THE BIG BANG THEORY -RPT Network 9 988,000
8 THE BLOCK TRIPLE THREAT -MON Network 9 986,000
9 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 927,000
10 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 861,000
11 THE BIG BANG THEORY -RPT EP2 Network 9 760,000
12 7.30-EV Network ABC 760,000
13 AUSTRALIAN STORY-EV Network ABC 741,000
14 FOUR CORNERS-EV Network ABC 738,000
15 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS FIRST AT FIVE Network TEN 675,000

Audience Share:

Network 7 23.5%
Network 9 21.0%
Network ABC 15.3%
Network TEN 10.4%
Network SBS ONE 4.2%
Network 7TWO 3.9%
Network GO! 3.7%
Network 7mate 3.6%
Network Gem 3.4%
Network ELEVEN 2.8%
Network ONE 2.5%
Network ABC2 2.5%
Network SBS 2 1.4%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network NITV 0.1%

Total Audience Share:

Network 7 TTL 31.0%
Network 9 TTL 28.1%
Network ABC TTL 19.4%
Network TEN TTL 15.8%
Network SBS TTL 5.7%

Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. 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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