Married at First Sight beats rival My Kitchen Rules for the second time this week
Nine’s blind wedding show Married at First Sight has beaten rival reality show My Kitchen Rules for the second consecutive night, topping Monday night’s ratings.
Married at First Sight pulled 1.099m metro viewers, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary ratings.
The relationship reality series was the most-watched program of the evening and across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
Airing at the same time, the elimination episode of Seven’s My Kitchen Rules saw 1.047m viewers tune in – its second-lowest audience ever – while Ten’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here finished third in the competitive time slot with 735,000 viewers.
Despite the success of Nine’s Married at First Sight, Seven took back the top spot in overall audience share with an average of 23% beating Nine’s 21.1%.
Meanwhile ABC grabbed a share of 13.5% ahead of Ten’s 12.2% and SBS’ 4.0%.
In the 9:00pm time slot, Seven’s forbidden wedding reality program Bride & Prejudice managed 700,000 ahead of Nine’s 582,000 for House Husbands.
ABC’s line up saw documentary series Australian Story air at 8:00pm pulling 669,000 followed by Four Corners with 575,000 and then Media Watch which managed 624,000.
In the 6:00pm news battle Seven News averaged 981,000 in front of Nine News’ 869,000. At 6:30pm Seven News pulled 938,000 while Nine News saw 877,000 tune in.