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Seven’s Martin Bryant report proves more popular than Ten’s The People v. OJ Simpson

The People v OJ SimpsonThe premiere of US drama The People v. OJ Simpson attracted 593,000 metro viewers for Channel Ten at 8:30pm.

The show, which stars Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson and Selma Blair as Kris Jenner, was the third most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Seven’s My Kitchen Rules and Sunday Night took out the top two places in the demographics respectively.

The People v. OJ Simpson was out-rated by Seven’s Sunday Night which saw Mike Willesee lead an investigation into Port Arthur mass murderer Martin Bryant. It pulled in 1.201m metro viewers in the 8:30pm time slot.

Earlier in the evening, Channel Nine’s reality show Australia’s Got Talent shed 111,000 metro viewers on last week, pulling in 602,000 viewers at 8:00pm, down from last week’s audience of 713,000.

In the 7:30pm time slot, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulled in 1.325m metro viewers, winning the night – while, earlier in the evening, Ten’s  I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, which aired from 6:30pm, was watched by 559,000.

Later in the evening, Seven’s The Blacklist, airing at 9:30pm, was watched by 518,000.

Seven won the evening with an audience share of 26.1%, well ahead of Nine’s audience share of 16.3%. Ten claimed fourth place with a share of 12.3% while the ABC settled for a share of 13.3%.

On the ABC, Doc Martin at 7:40pm was watched by 1.055m, to be the third most-watched program of the evening. Call the Midwife, airing at 8:30pm, pulled in 594,000.

In the news battleground, Nine News was watched by 1.040m while Seven News pulled in 977,000.

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