Home Made falters again in Sunday’s TV ratings

Nine’s expensive renovation reality show Home Made remains on the critical list after scraping a TV ratings audience of 1m on Sunday night.  

The show was 12th for the night and third in its slot, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam.  The only bright spot for Nine is that Home Made’s audience was slightly up on Tuesday’s 890,000.

Due to AFL coverage in Adelaide, programming varied slightly across the country, but according to the initial OzTam data, excluding Adelaide, programmes in the 6.30pm slot were: Seven’s Sunday Night – 1.23m; Ten’s Merlin – 1.24m, Nine’s Home Made – 0.87m.

Meanwhile the combination of Merlin and MasterChef is working well for Ten, although Rove’s move to a slightly earlier slot has not delivered the audience boost that might have been expected.

Although Seven won the night, it was probably expecting more from the debut of its new crimer writer/ detective drama Castle, which failed to dent the magic million mark.

Julia Zemiro’s hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest helped SBS to a bigger audience share for Sunday than usual, with the network  on 9.9% audience share for the day. The programme had an average audience of 482,000 and a peak audience of 700,000, SBS’s best result with the contest in five years.

This appeared to be mainly at the expense of the ABC, which was on 12.7% for Sunday. But the night was won by Seven, with 27.6%, ahead of Nine’s 25.5% and Ten’s 24.3%.

Sunday’s top 15 TV shows:

1. Seven News – Seven 1.7m
2. Nine News – Nine 1.5m
3. Master Chef – Ten 1.5m
4. Merlin – Ten 1.4m
5. 60 Minutes – Nine 1.3m
6. Bones – Seven 1.3m
7. Sunday Night – Seven 1.2m
8. Border Security USA – Seven 1.2m
9. The Force – Seven 1.2m
10. CSI – Nine 1.1m
11. Rove – Ten 1m
12. Home Made – Nine 1m
13. ABC News – ABC 1m
14. Castle – Seven 0.9m
15. CSI NY – Nine 0.8m

Meanwhile, Seven won last week’s TV ratings week, which ended on Saturday night. Seven 28.3%; Nine 25.7%; Ten 22.9%; ABC 17.4%; SBS 5.6%. Seven also leads for the year.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025

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