The Block chases My Kitchen Rules as The Biggest Loser falls again
‘Naughty Nana’ and Pa’s eviction from My Kitchen Rules was the most watched program on Tuesday night with 1.677m viewers watching while Nine presented strong competition with a 1.233m strong audience for an extended episode of The Block.
Meanwhile Ten’s The Biggest Loser fell to its lowest ratings of the season with 322,000 viewers across the five cities, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show. Previously the show’s lowest rating was 323,000 on a Tuesday night two weeks ago. Last week it won 328,000 metro viewers as MKR averaged over 2m for the highly-competitive 7.30pm timeslot.
Nine won the most viewers for its news and current affairs programming between 6pm and 7.30pm with 1.143m for the first half hour of Nine News and 1.088m for the second. A Current Affair then dominated the 7pm timeslot with a 1.051m strong metro audience as Seven’s Home and Away had 920,000.
Meanwhile Seven News averaged 1.086m from 6pm, and 1.034m from 6.30pm with news on the east coast and Today Tonight elsewhere.
However Seven’s Winners and Losers was second in the 8.45pm timeslot after an extended episode of The Block which ran until 9.40pm and had its highest audience yet for a Tuesday night.
ABC1’s New Tricks was third in the timeslot with 673,000 while Family Confidential was also third at 8pm with 569,000.
Ten’s strongest rating show was Ten Eyewitness News with 582,000 at 5pm. NCIS was the network’s second most popular program with 523,000 viewers, followed by NCIS: Los Angeles which averaged 470,000.
In the breakfast battle, Nine’s Today was the top-rating show with a metro audience of 311,000 while Seven’s Sunrise had 311,000 and Wake Up on Ten had 29,000. The Morning Show averaged 134,000 for Seven, Mornings had 97,000 on Nine and Studio 10 had 34,000 on Ten.
Seven won the night with a 25.9 per cent audience share and Nine followed with 23.6 per cent, with ABC1 third with a 12.1 per cent share of the audience followed by Ten with 9.9 per cent.
Tuesday’s top 15 shows:
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.667m
- The Block: Fans v Faves Nine 1.233m
- Nine News Nine 1.143m
- Nine News 6:30 Nine 1.088m
- Seven News Seven 1.086m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.051m
- Seven News / Today Tonight Seven 1.034m
- Winners and Losers Seven 922,000
- Home and Away Seven 920,000
- ABC News ABC1 839,000
- New Tricks Rpt ABC1 673,000
- 7.30 ABC1 606,000
- Hot Seat Nine 582,000
- Ten Eyewitness News 582,000
- Family Confidential ABC1 569,000
Tuesday’s share:
- Seven 25.9%
- Nine 23.6%
- ABC1 12.1%
- TEN 9.9%
- SBS ONE 4.4%
- 7mate 4.0%
- 7TWO 3.8%
- Gem 3.2%
- ABC2 2.9%
- ELEVEN 2.6%
- GO! 2.8%
- ONE 1.9%
- ABC3 1.2%
- ABC News 24 1.2%
- SBS 2 0.6%
- NITV 0.1%
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Whilst it was always going to be difficult for TBL in 2014 going head to head against The Block and MKR, I think part of the problem lies with Ten launching the season before the Winter Olympics.
Whilst the Olympics were on, the air times and dates for TBL seemed to keep changing to the point where I wasn’t sure of when it was on. After a while, audiences get used to doing or watching something else.
To me the biggest problem with TBL this year is the contestants. They are a very different profile to the city based contestants from previous seasons. The majority of them seem quite content the way they are and give the impression they would be quite happy to go home at any stage. There is very little competitiveness on show other than Cal and within that format, it makes for very dull viewing.
Give the money to Cal now so the rest of them can go home.
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