House Rules draws 1.249m for finale, as Masterchef wins younger demos
Seven’s reality renovation program House Rules has drawn a metropolitan audience of 1.249m for its season finale winners announcement, which saw twin brothers Luke and Cody Cook take out the competition
Luke and Cody Cook won Seven’s House Rules finale
The result puts House Rules on par with its 2015 result, when the show’s grand finale drew an audience of 1.295m for the winners’ announcement. Overall the show had an average audience of 1.144m.
According to the OzTAM preliminary overnight ratings, the House Rules grand finale beat both Ten’s Masterchef and Nine’s The Voice, which had 1m and 936,000 viewers, respectively.
Despite taking out the most watched show of the night Seven was beaten by Nine in overall audience share, with Nine pulling 21.7 to Seven’s 21%.
Ten’s Masterchef also performed well in the younger demographics, winning the night among 16-39s and 18-54s, with 356,000 viewers and 501,000 viewers, respectively.
In the wake of the Federal election ABC Insiders performed well, with an extended one and half hour program at 8:30am, pulling 466,000 viewers.
The news race saw Seven News pull 1.368m at 6:00pm compared with 1.264m for Nine News.
With Nine and Seven taking the top spots for main channel audience share, Ten had 15.5% and the ABC 10.5%.
