The Bachelor ups Ten’s share ahead of tonight’s finale

Channel Ten enjoyed a ratings boost last night as the penultimate episode of this season of The Bachelor picked up more than 250,000 viewers than last week, beating one of its timeslot rivals on Seven in the process.

Meanwhile the finale of ABC comedy Utopia held its exact audience from last week with 620,000 viewers at 8.30pm, while Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell dropped on its second outing of the series by 73,000 to 570,000.

The Block: Glasshouse was the top show of the night as it gears up for the auction finale on Sunday, winning the 7.30 timeslot with 1.137m viewers, ahead of Seven’s The Force – Behind the Line which had 938,000, and The Bachelor on Ten which had 895,000.

However, The Bachelor did beat Seven’s 8pm offering of Border Security which had 863,000 viewers for its half hour run.