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Married at First Sight up on debut while Four Corners’ Palmer special pulls 932,000

Married at First sightNine’s controversial dating show Married at First Sight pulled in 874,000 metro viewers at 7.30pm last night, up on its debut last week.

The episode was up on the debut audience of 771,000 but down on Tuesday’s second episode’s audience of 905,000.

Seven’s My Kitchen Rules easily won the night with a metro audience of 1.356m and was the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Married at First Sight was the second most-watched show.

A special Four Corners episode looking at the business interests of businessman/politician Clive Palmer on the ABC also performed well pulling 932,000 viewers.

An interview with Palmer on Lateline at 10.30pm drew 299,000 viewers.

Seven won the night with an audience share of 22.8%, ahead of Nine’s share of 17.5%. The ABC claimed third place with a share of 16.6% while Ten lagged behind with a share of 10.7%.

On Ten, The Project at 6.30pm pulled in 526,000, growing to 630,000 from 7pm. Family Feud, airing from 6pm, was watched by 585,000.

On the ABC, 7.30 had an audience of 765,000, Australian Story (8pm) was watched by 828,000, Four Corners (8.30pm) grabbed 932,000 metro viewers, Media Watch (9.20pm) pulled in 817,000 and Q&A (9.40pm) had an audience of 551,000.

In the news battleground, Nine News at 6pm was watched by 1.152m, dipping to 1.125m from 6.30pm while Seven News at 6pm grabbed 1.149m, sliding to 1.069m from 6.30pm.

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