Big Brother ratings remain below 1m for first nominations episode
Big Brother’s first live nominations episode did little to boost the show’s ratings which remained below a million for the third night in a row on Tuesday.
With 880,000 viewers, Big Brother, broadcast from 7pm to 8.30pm, was only just above Ten’s MasterChef, which had 803,000 viewers across the five city metro according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.
In the first live nominations for the year, Big Brother housemates cast their votes leaving six to fight for their place in the Big Brother house.
Seven’s X Factor at 7.30pm was the top program of the night with a metro audience of 1.48m.
Meanwhile, ABC1’s politics and cooking show Kitchen Cabinet did not repeat last week’s feat of beating MasterChef and Nine’s Great Australian Bake Off. Annabel Crabb’s Kitchen Cabinet conversation with Labor’s Doug Cameron rated 663,000 viewers, compared with 722,000 last week, and was 16th for the night. Nine’s Great Australian Bake Off at 8pm also lost viewer on last week, dropping to 15th for the night with an audience of 675,000.
Seven’s local drama Winners and Losers at 8.40pm had 1.015m viewers, while Ten’s US drama Under the Dome rated 881,000.
Seven’s Sunrise – which is spending the week saying farewell to host Mel Doyle – had 390,000 viewers while Today on Channel Nine had 335,000.
Seven won the night with 25 per cent of the audience share while Nine had 18 per cent and Ten 15 per cent.
In the key advertising battleground of 25-54, The X Factor was top show, followed by Winners & Losers and then Under The Dome. Big Brother was ahead of Masterchef.
Tuesday’s top 15 shows:
- The X Factor Seven 1.480m
- Seven News Seven 1.305m
- Nine News Nine 1.249m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.082m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.036m
- Home and Away Seven 1.015m
- Winners and Losers Seven 1.015m
- ABC News ABC1 1.002m
- Under the Dome Ten 881,000
- Big Brother Nine 880,000
- MasterChef Australia Ten 803,000
- New Tricks (Rpt) ABC1 770,000
- 7.30 ABC1 729,000
- Ten News Five Ten 690,000
- The Great Australian Bake Off Nine 675,000
Tuesday’s share:
- Seven 25.4%
- Nine 18.1%
- Ten 15.4%
- ABC1 13.2%
- 7TWO 4.3%
- SBS ONE 4.2%
- GO! 4.1%
- ABC2 3.4%
- ELEVEN 2.8%
- Gem 2.5%
- 7mate 2.3%
- ONE 2.1%
- ABC News 24 0.9%
- ABC3 0.7%
- SBS 2 0.5%
- NITV 0.1%
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Not that i care.. but the reporting of this seems a little anti big brother? I may be wrong but i thought masterchef was one of the jewels for 10, and it has been quite comprehensively beaten by the maligned (rightly or wrongly meh) Big brother.
But this reports makes that sound bad? Is there some sort of agenda?
Or is it just me?
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Hi OS,
On its own I take your point. But given the context that we’ve reported extensively the downward path of Masterchef’s ratings this season, it’s noteworthy that Big Brother has fallen to a similar level, hence today’s angle.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Hi Offal Spokesperson,
This probably needs the added context that we’ve regularly reported Masterchef’s declining ratings in the current series. The context here is that this is not a great result for either show.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Cheers, appreciate the context.
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