Masterchef posted its lowest audience for the season pulling in 850,000 metro viewers, down on last week’s audience of 949,000.
It was easily out-rated by by Nine’s The Voice, which pulled in 1.421m metro viewers at 7:30pm. Both shows beat Seven’s House Rules which was watched by 765,000.
The Voice was the most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Masterchef was the second most-watched show.
Nine won the night with an audience share of 24.3%, ahead of Seven’s share of 17.4%. Ten and the ABC tied, with both channels posting a share of 14.3%. When secondary channels are accounted for, Ten claimed third place with a total audience share of 20% ahead of the ABC’s total share of 19%.
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Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention?, airing at 8:30pm, drew a metro audience of 684,000 while Nine’s Soundbreaking, airing at 9:20pm, pulled in 636,000.
In the news battleground, Nine News at 6:00pm was watched by 1.181m, sliding to 1.128m from 6:30pm as Seven News at 6:00pm had an audience of 1.160m, dipping to 1.046m from 6:30pm.
On the ABC, 7.30 was watched by 647,000, Australian Story (8:00pm) grabbed 682,000, Four Corners (8:30pm) drew 670,000 and Media Watch (9:20pm) had an audience of 684,000 and Q&A (9:30pm).