The Block wins biggest audience yet with 1.829m on fragmented viewing night
Channel Nine posted its biggest audience yet for The Block with 1.829m across the five cities in the absence of My Kitchen Rules (MKR) on Channel Seven, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.
Seven ran the first of a two part series with MKR chef Manu Feildel returning to his home town in Brittany, France ahead of the My Kitchen Rules finals this week. However the show was not on in Melbourne and Adelaide where Seven’s AFL coverage ran from 7pm to 10pm.
My France with Manu rated 813,000 despite only being broadcast in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth and Downton Abbey followed with 694,000 in those three cities.
Meanwhile Nine broadcast the final of its drama series Fat Tony and Co only in Sydney and Brisbane where it had 381,000 from 8.40pm, but was beaten in its timeslot in those cities by Downton Abbey.
It was a dirty trick for Seven not to show My Kitchen Rules last night. We sat down to watch it like we always do and were confronted with Sunday Night promoting a story about some pregnant model having nude photos taken. We immediately switched to Nine where our intelligence was not insulted. Bad move, Seven.