Masterchef audience slides as The Voice and House Rules both crack 1m viewers
Masterchef saw its audience dip by almost 150,000 metro viewers last night, with 808,000 tuning in for a mystery box episode from 7:30pm.
It was down on last week’s audience of 956,000 and was out-rated by Seven’s House Rules and Nine’s The Voice.
House Rules’ whole house reveal pulled in 1.240m metro viewers while Nine’s The Voice was the most-watched non-news program of the evening with a metro audience of 1.303m.
Seven’s reality renovation program was the most-watched program amongst 16-39 year old viewers while The Voice was the popular choice amongst 18-49 year olds and 25-54 year olds.
The three reality programs easily out-rated the ABC’s 7:30pm broadcast of the leaders’ debate, which was watched by 529,000 metro viewers.
Nine and Seven tied with both channels posting an audience share of 22% while Ten managed a share of 13.6%. The ABC settled for a share of 11.1%.
When the secondary channels are included, the Nine Network won the evening with a total audience share of 30.2% while the Seven Network had a total share of 28.3%.
Later in the evening, Nine’s troubled 60 Minutes grabbed 778,000 metro viewers from 8:40pm. The program aired a segment apologising to viewers for its role in a “child recovery operation” which saw crew of the current affairs program facing charges of kidnapping in Lebanon.
On Seven, Sunday Night, which aired from 8:40pm, was watched by 615,000 metro viewers while Ten’s Bondi Rescue, airing from 9:15pm, pulled in 372,000.
In the news battleground, Seven News at 6:00pm won the night with a metro audience of 1.424m while Nine News was watched by 1.237m.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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