House Rules gains more than 200,000 viewers to win Tuesday night
Seven’s House Rules was the most-watched program of the evening, up 231,000 metro viewers from last Tuesday night’s 941,000.
According to OzTam’s overnight preliminary ratings, the show, which attracted a metro audience of 1.145m, was well ahead of its competitors in the 7:30pm slot, and was the highest Tuesday night metro audience for the show for the month of May.
House Rules had a combined national audience of 1.850m with, with 705,000 regional viewers tuning in to the show on Seven and its affiliate broadcasters.
Masterchef managed 874,000 metro viewers and Britain’s Got Talent captured 642,000.
Nationally, Masterchef saw 1.193m viewers while Britain’s Got Talent pulled 913,000.
House Rules was also the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49, 25-54) ahead of Ten’s Masterchef, which placed second across each demographic.
In the later time slot, the ABC’s War on Waste pulled 770,000 metro viewers, ahead of Seven’s Seven Year Switch, which had a metro audience of 649,000 and Nine’s Love Child’s audience of 473,000.
The ABC’s War on Waste had 1.115m national viewers, while Seven Year Switch had a national audience of 998,000.
Seven also dominated the night of news, with 1.130m metro viewers in the 6pm slot, and 1.075m at 6:30pm.
Nine pulled 1.051m and 1.026m metro viewers respectively.
Holding the top three shows on the ratings ladder, Seven collected an easy win with an average audience share of 22.2%.
Nine had an average audience share of 16.6%, ahead of Ten’s 15.7%.
Meanwhile ABC averaged 12.8% well ahead of SBS’ 4.3%.
