Married at First Sight dominates Tuesday’s ratings but Seven wins the night
Nine’s reality dating show, Married At First Sight, has dominated Tuesday night’s television ratings attracting 1.233m metro viewers.
The show topped the competitive 7.30pm time slot, proving to be more popular than Seven’s My Kitchen Rules which had 988,000 metro viewers tune in.
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According to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings, Ten’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, which also aired at 7.30pm, managed 489,000 viewers.
In the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54), Married At First Sight was also the most watched program.
Despite the success of Nine’s Married At First Sight, Seven won Tuesday night’s ratings with an overall audience share of 25.1% beating Nine’s 21.8%, Ten’s 11.6%, ABC’s 9.7% and SBS’ 3.2% share.
Meanwhile, Seven’s 9pm screening of the Winter Olympics saw 799,000 metro viewers tune in.
Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.
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I watched and was immidiately drawn in to these people’s lives.
However, seemingly the more dysfunctional the stars, and more invasive the shows concept the higher the ratings get.
How do people feel about this trend of ‘entertainment’?
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We are human after all Adam. We can watch and judge these people from the confines of our own home without feeling bad about it, because no one knows what we’re thinking. We can feel better about ourselves knowing that there are people who are slightly more messed up than we are. It provides us with a deluded sense of hope, no matter how fleeting. We’re like the audience in Roman amphitheater, but instead of the gladiators and thirst for blood, we thirst after these dysfunction “stars” and get our rush from it.
And so we watch, and keep on watching.
Thoughts?
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