House Rules rates just 784,000 for Seven

The second outing of Seven’s House Rules dropped to 784,000 metro viewers last night, leaving the network facing increasing questions about whether the new renovation show will be capable of competing with Nine’s The Block.

Last night The Block rated 1.062m, fourth most watched show of the night, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM. House Rules was 11th, only just ahead of an episode of Modern Family on Ten which rated 719,000.

House Rules made its debut on Tuesday night when it rated 803,000. Ten’s attempt to dislodge The Block, The Renovators, averaged 939,000 viewers on its first airing in 2011 and was considered a failure.

Ten had its own woes last night with the final episode of Mr & Mrs Murder rating just 454,000.

The Big Bang Theory rated 1.229m for Nine while US drama Arrow rated 971,000.

Nine won the night with a 22.5 per cent share. Seven was on 20.5 per cent and ABC1 on 14.2 per cent. Ten delivered 11.9 per cent.

Tonight sees an even tougher test for House Rules, with the show preceding the grand final of Celebrity Splash.

Meanwhile, Sunrise won mornings for Seven, beating Today by 351,000 to 332,000.

Thursday’s top 15 shows:

1. Nine News 1.308m
2. Seven News 1.263m
3. The Big Bang Theory 1.229m
4. The Block 1.062m
5. A Current Affair 1.060m
6. Today Tonight 1m
7. Arrow .971m
8. Home and Away .954m
9. ABC News .903m
10. Adam Hills Tonight .797m
11. House Rules .784m
12. QI .735m
13. 7:30 .727m
14. Modern Family .719m
15. Hot Seat .706m

Network share:

• Nine: 22.5%
• Seven: 20.5%
• ABC1: 14.2%
• Ten: 11.9%
• 7Two: 4.6%
• GO!: 4.2%
• 7mate: 4.1%
• SBS1: 3.8%
• Gem: 3.5%
• ABC2: 3%
• Eleven: 2.7%
• ABC News 24: 1.1%
• SBS2: .9%
• ABC3: 9%
• NITV: .1%

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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.

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Comments: 4

Billy C 16 May 13

Mr and Mrs Murder benefitted from Mad as Hell fans switching over.

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Jerry Springer 16 May 13

Axe this poor excuse for entertainment already

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Dan 16 May 13

House Rules is DOA. There is no way it’s coming back. Seven need to kill it & kill it quick.

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PerthHacks 16 May 13

Maybe its time to switch strategy and put some minorities on the show to alienate a la MKR

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