Downton Abbey audience continues to slide as Farmer Wants a Wife posts lowest audience
UK drama Downton Abbey has continued to experience audience decline, with the show posting a metro audience of 781,000, down on last week’s audience of 813,000.
The show won the 9:00pm time slot for Seven, out-rating Nine’s The Farmer Wants a Wife, which kicked off at 8:45pm and had a metro audience of 488,000 (its lowest audience to date), and Ten’s CSI: Cyber, which pulled in 400,000 viewers.
In time-shifted viewing, last week’s episode of Downtown Abbey was watched by an extra 216,000 metro viewers, taking last week’s total audience to 1.029m.
Earlier in the evening, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules grabbed 1.450m viewers at 7:30pm to be the most-watched show of the evening. It was also the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
