Masterchef climbs above 900,000 metro viewers, but can’t beat House Rules
Ten’s Masterchef reached more than 900,000 viewers on a Tuesday night, for the first time in three weeks.
The reality cooking show, which launched with a metro audience of 1.06m, managed to reach 927,000 metro viewers on Tuesday night, according to OzTam’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
It is the highest metro audience viewing for a Tuesday for the show since May 17, when the show reached 1.045m metro viewers.
Last week the show managed 874,000 metro viewers.
The show was the second-most-watched program in the 16-39 and 25-54 key advertising demographics, and was the most-watched show in the 18-49s.
Despite it’s success, it couldn’t beat Seven’s House Rules, which ran in the same time slot.
The renovation show collected 1.087m metro viewers and was the most-watched non-news program of the night.
Nine’s 20 to One, which also aired in the 7:30pm slot, had 530,000 metro viewers.
The later time slot saw Seven’s First Dates dominate, with 589,000 viewers ahead of Ten’s NCIS, which had a metro audience of 565,000 and Nine’s Love Child, which captured 523,000 metro city viewers.
ABC’s David Stratton’s Stories of Australian Cinema pulled 555,000 metro viewers.
Despite Seven’s success in non-news programs, Nine won the news battle, with 1.152 metro viewers at 6pm, and 1.116m at 6:30pm.
Seven News had 1.133m and 1.078m metro viewers respectively.
In the average audience shares, Seven finished ahead of its competitors, at 21.9%.
Nine’s share was 17.3% while Ten had a share of 16.3%.
ABC had an average audience share of 11.4% and SBS had a share of 5.8%.
