Lego Masters still pulling 1m-plus metro viewers, but Seven takes network win
Despite a slight drop, Nine’s Lego Masters is still dominating the TV ratings, helping Nine to a primary channel win with 21.5% of the audience.
1.022m metro viewers tuned in to the Hamish Blake-fronted reality TV competition, a drop from 1.091m on Sunday night, but enough to hold the spot as most watched non-news program.
Lego Masters continues to deliver for Nine
The first half of Seven News held onto the top spot with 1.082m, followed by the second half, which airs as Today Tonight in some states and pulled 1.055m.
The news pushed Seven close to Nine, holding 20.1% in the primary channel share race, but couldn’t give it the win. However, at a network level Seven succeeded, holding 28.8% over Nine’s 28.2%.
Nine News had 987,000 metro viewers while A Current Affair came in at 810,000.
Lego Masters took the top spot in all three key advertising demographics – 16 – 39, 18 – 49 and 25 – 54, followed by Ten’s Masterchef in the first two and Nine News in the last.
Masterchef also saw a drop in viewers, down to 607,000 metro viewers from 638,000 on Sunday. In the same 7:30pm slot, Seven’s House Rules pulled 640,000.
The ABC’s most-watched program for the evening was ABC News on 751,000, followed by Australian Story on 642,000.
The fourth episode in the final season of Game of Thrones brought in 800,000 viewers for Foxtel across several showings throughout the day according to preliminary OzTAM figures. That number will grow as on-demand and catch-up figures are included. 287,000 viewers watched the most-watched single showing of the episode.
ABC pulled 16.1% of the channel audience share and Ten held 10.3%. ABC was also in the third spot at a network level with 20.1% followed by Ten on 15.8%.
Seven and Ten tied for the most-watched multi-channel with 7Two and 10 Bold holding 3.5% apiece.
