Offspring flails as Married At First Sight pulls biggest audience of season

Nine’s Married At First Sight continued its dramatic increase in viewership last night, pulling a metro audience of 974,000 at 8:40pm up on last week’s 788,000, according to OzTAM metro ratings.

Dinner was tense in last night’s episode of Married At First Sight.

While the show failed to crack the million barrier it pulled its biggest audience of the season, topping two of the three key demographics (18-49, 25-54) and reigning as the most popular non-news program of the evening.

Ten’s local drama Offspring, airing in the same timeslot, managed just 594,000, down on last week’s audience of 638,000. It was the third most popular program among 16-39 and fourth among 18-49 and 25-54. The show did enjoy decent 7-day catch up figures picking up an extra 192,000 viewers for a total of 825,000. However it was still behind Seven’s drama The Durrells whicjh grabbed an extra 208,000 viewers for a total of 834,000 in the same slot.