MasterChef and Merlin take Ten to Sunday ratings win as Nine’s Home Made goes backwards

Tim Burrowes

May 25, 2009 10:29

Ten’s improving performance saw audience highs for MasterChef, Merlin and Rove in Sunday night’s TV ratings.

Merlin, in the 6.30pm slot, produced an average metro audience of 1.5m, according to preliminary figures from OzTam. This rose to nearly 1.7m for MasterChef and even caried though to a bigger audience than usual for Rove of 1.2m.

Meanwhile, Nine’s Home Made disaster is getting worse, with a Sunday audience of below 1m for the first time. Last night it rated 975,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.