Here Come The Habibs slumps to 662,000 as MKR and Wanted finale dominate the night

Nine comedy Here Come The Habibs slumped to just 662,000 metropolitan viewers last night, a result close to half the 1.249m it drew on debut.

It came on a Tuesday night when My Kitchen Rules dominated with an audience of 1.513m, and the final two episodes of the Rebecca Gibney drama Wanted drew 872,000 and 764,000, respectively, in the 9:00pm and 10:00pm time slot.

Despite five weeks of consecutive declines, The Habibs remains one of the most time-shifted shows – with last week’s result of 764,000 viewers picking up another 137,000 over the past seven days for a result of 934,000. 

Wanted also performed strongly in time-shifting, adding 224,000 viewers to last week’s overnight figure of 962,000 for a result of 1.187m.

On Ten, the final week of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! drew 712,000 viewers, with the elimination of Havana Brown drawing 742,000 viewers. NCIS followed with 584,000 viewers at 8:30pm.

According to the OzTAM Preliminary Ratings, in the 7:30pm time-slot, Nine’s The Big Bang theory drew 757,000 viewers while a repeat at 8:00pm drew 674,000.

Seven won the news race in both time slots, with an audience of 1.067m and 1.009m, respectively, in the 6:00pm and 6:30pm bulletins, while Nine had 966,000 and 947,000.

Today comprehensively beat Sunrise with 333,000 viewers to 280,000.

In main channel audience share, Seven had 28.2%, Nine 17.8%, Ten 14.8% and the ABC 10.9%.

Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

topics ABC Here Come the Habibs MKR Nine OzTam Seven Ten TV ratings Wanted

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Comments: 2

Pat 9 Mar 16

Channel 9 needs to get smart about their scheduling of Habibs….. the Big Bang audience is not the right lead in….. If Habibs was on tomorrow night, leading in to the doggies game, they’d see huge Sydney numbers.

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Pete Rush 9 Mar 16

I’ve been spruiking this show to my family as only the secound actually funny sitcom made in Australia. It started great – I was laughing – they were laughing – lines worthy of Modern Family – “the cat frisbie” – all good and sharp and fast . And then it congealed into slap-stick. Felt like an overworked run out of time? Shame.

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