Love Child grabs biggest audience of series as Masterchef stays dominant
Masterchef regained its spot at the top of the TV ratings last night although its reality rivals Reno Rumble and House Rules both enjoyed a renaissance in the absence of the budget speech last night.
Ten’s cooking show secured 1.204m viewers, very marginally down on last week’s audience, and topped all the advertising demographics ahead of Nine’s Love Child, which saw a big increase on its audience of 817,000 last week to 932,000 last night, a series high for the drama.
Love Child also picked up another 222,o00 viewers in catch up viewing last week – taking its consolidated metro audience to over a million.
It was helped by an improved showing for Reno Rumble which had 828,000, again more than 100,000 up on last week for Nine at 7.30pm, while Seven’s House Rules climbed fro 675,000 last week to 759,000 last night, according to OzTam’s metro overnight ratings.
Love Child helped Nine secure a dominant audience share for the night with 20.9 per cent, with Ten topping Seven again with 18.8 per cent to 17.4 per cent, and ABC languishing in fourth on 11.9 per cent.
ABC’s best show was its 7pm news with 874,000, with 7.30 its only other show in the top 15 with 692,000 viewers.
A double episode of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares from 8.45pm on Seven saw 510,000 tune in for episode one – up from last week’s 494,000- and 447,000 for episode two.
NCIS at 8.30pm on ten also held strong with 752,000 viewers.
In the new battle Nine News at 6pm won with 1.19m, dropping to 1.132m at 6.30pm. Seven News had 1.079m at 6pm and 1.062m for the news and Today Tonight schedule at 6.30pm.
Top 15 shows:
1 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA TUES Network TEN 1,204,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,190,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,132,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,081,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,079,000
6 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 1,062,000
7 LOVE CHILD Network 9 932,000
8 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 874,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 854,000
10 RENO RUMBLE -TUE Network 9 828,000
11 HOUSE RULES-TUE Network 7 759,000
12 NCIS Network TEN 752,000
13 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 699,000
14 7.30-EV Network ABC 692,000
15 HOT SEAT Network 9 688,000
Channel audience share:
Network 9 20.9%
Network TEN 18.8%
Network 7 17.4%
Network ABC 11.9%
Network SBS ONE 4.8%
Network GO! 4.6%
Network Gem 3.7%
Network 7TWO 3.6%
Network 7mate 3.5%
Network ELEVEN 3.0%
Network ABC2 2.6%
Network ONE 2.4%
Network SBS 2 1.4%
Network ABC News 24 1.0%
Network ABC3 0.4%
Network NITV 0.1%
Network audience share:
Network 9 TTL 29.1%
Network 7 TTL 24.5%
Network TEN TTL 24.2%
Network ABC TTL 15.9%
Network SBS TTL 6.3%
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