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The Bachelor enjoys biggest launch as Restaurant Revolution drops 160,000 viewers

The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood

The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood

Last year’s controversial ending appears to have spurred interest in The Bachelor which enjoyed its biggest debut audience to date, and beat its reality rivals on Seven and Nine.

The heavily-promoted new series topped all advertiser demographics and grabbed 846,000 metro viewers to see star Sam Wood meet his potential new beaus. Last year the show drew 692,000 on debut, which was similar to its first season launch in 2013 when 669,000 tuned in.

It beat both Seven and Nine’s new reality cooking franchises Restaurant Revolution and The Hotplate in the 7.30pm timeslot. Nine’s The Hotplate saw its audience sink marginally on its Tuesday night debut to 713,000, while Restaurant Revolution faded badly with just 515,000 viewers, according to OzTam overnight metro ratings.

Neither show made the top five in any of the demographics.

The first night of the third Ashes test between Australia and England again proved a huge drawcard with 704,000 viewers tuning in for the first session on Gem from 7.30pm, with 478,000 sticking around for The Crivket Show at 10pm and 367,000 and 350,000 for the second and third sessions respectively.

The first session also helped knock Restaurant Revolution to fifth place in its timeslot with ABC’s 7.30 (604,000), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (527,000) and Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery (535,000) all outrating it during its two hour run.

SBS’ second night of its new series of Go Back to Where You Came From also suffered at 8.30pm dropping to 300,000 from 424,000 on its Tuesday debut.

In the breakfast battle Sunrise on Seven beat Nine’s Today with 337,000 to 289,000.

However Nine won the key news hour battle, with its 6.30pm bulletin getting 1.077m and the 6pm offering 1.061m, the most watched shows of the evening. Seven could only muster 973,000 at 6pm and 905,000 for its 6.30pm/Today Tonight offering.

Nine won the night for channel share with 15.7 per cent, ahead of Seven’s 15 per cent and Ten’s 14.7 per cent, while The Ashes gave Gem a 12.9 per cent share which put it ahead of the ABC’s 11.4 per cent.

 

Top 15 shows:

1 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,077,000

2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,061,000

3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,017,000

4 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 973,000

5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 905,000

6 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA – LAUNCH Network TEN 846,000

7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 790,000

8 THE HOTPLATE -WED Network 9 713,000

9 THE MID-YEAR ASHES: THIRD TEST-ENG V AUS SESSION 1 -D1 Network Gem 704,000

10 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 702,000

11 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 683,000

12 HOT SEAT Network 9 663,000

13 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 639,000

14 7.30-EV Network ABC 604,000

15 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS FIRST AT FIVE Network TEN 598,000

Audience share by channel:

Network 9 15.7%

Network 7 15.0%

Network TEN 14.7%

Network Gem 12.9%

Network ABC 11.4%

Network SBS ONE 5.3%

Network 7TWO 5.0%

Network GO! 4.9%

Network ABC2 3.6%

Network 7mate 3.3%

Network ELEVEN 2.7%

Network ONE 2.4%

Network SBS 2 1.4%

Network ABC News 24 1.1%

Network ABC3 0.7%

Network NITV 0.1%

Total network share:

Network 9 TTL 33.4%

Network 7 TTL 23.3%

Network TEN TTL 19.8%

Network ABC TTL 16.7%

Network SBS TTL 6.8%

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