2.568m watch Kate Bracks win Masterchef final – 1.3m less than last year
Nearly 2.6m metro TV viewers watched Kate Bracks beat Michael Weldon to win the third series of Masterchef Australia on Sunday night.
According to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam, the winning announcement was nearly 1.4m million down on last year’s 3.962m, and also down on 2009’s 3.56m.
A peak audience of 2.778m watched the announcement last night – 37% down on last year’s peak of 4.438m.
The late evening finale night show rated 2.334m. This was also well down on last year’s 3.542m.
The Renovators rated 1.269m – the renovation contest’s best numbers to date.
The earlier part of the finale was sandwiched before The Renovators. This part of Masterchef rated 1.81m.
Masterchef was not even the biggest audience of the last week. That was for Seven’s Australia’s Got Talent final, which rated 2.855m last Tuesday night.
On Nine, The Block rated 1.443m for the main show last night. The Block room winner announcement rated 1.82m.
Sunday’s top 15:
- Masterchef – Winner Ten 2.568m
- Masterchef – Finale Ten 2.334m
- The Block – Room Winner Nine 1.820m
- Masterchef Ten 1.810m
- Seven News Seven 1.618m
- Nine News Nine 1.515m
- The Block Nine 1.443m
- The Renovators Ten 1.269m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.203m
- Sunday Night Seven 1.148m
- Midsomer Murders ABC 1.106m
- Grand Designs ABC 0.951m
- Great Migrations Seven 0.794m
- Bones Seven 0.751m
- ABC News ABC 0.661m
Sunday’s nightly share:
- Ten: 27.9%
- Nine: 19.1%
- Seven: 17.4%
- ABC1: 13.0%
- GO!: 3.9%
- SBS1: 3.4%
- Eleven: 3.0%
- One: 2.7%
- 7TWO 2.6%
- 7mate: 2.4%
- Gem: 2.4%
- ABC2: 1.0%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
- SBS2: 0.4%
- ABC3: 0.3%
Masterchef’s previous final night ratings:
November 2010
- Junior Masterchef final – 1.853m metro (peaking at 2.24m)
July 2010
- Masterchef series 2 winner announced – 3.962m metro (peaking at 4.438m)
- Masterchef series 2 winner announced – 5.2m metro and regional (peaking at 5.74m)
- Masterchef finale night – 3.542m metro (peaking at 4.211m)
- Masterchef finale night – 4.63m metro and regional
November 2009
- Celebrity Masterchef 2009 final – 1.3m metro
July 2009
- Masterchef series 1 winner announced – 3.7m metro (peaking at 4.1m)
- Masterchef finale night – 3.3m metro (peaking at 3.9m)
Previous most watched shows since 2001 when OzTam began:
- Australian Open: Men’s Final (Lleyton Hewitt v Marat Safin) 4.045m – 2005 – Seven
- Rugby World Cup: Final (Australia v England) 4.016m – 2003 – Nine
- Masterchef Australia – Winner Announced 3.964m 25 July 2010 – Ten
- Masterchef Australia – Winner Announced 3.56m 19 July 2009 – Ten
- Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony 3.56m 2006 – Nine
- Masterchef Australia: Finale Night 3.542m 25 July 2010 – Ten
- AFL Grand Final (Sydney Swans v West Coast Eagles) 3,386m – 2005 – Ten
- Australian Idol: The final verdict 3.344m 2004 – Ten
- Masterchef Australia: Finale night 3,313m – 19 July 2009 – Ten
- Australian Idol: The final verdict 3.33m 2006 – Ten
- AFL Grand Final (West Coast Eagles v Sydney Swans) 3.145m 2006 – Ten
- The Block: Final 3.115m 2003 – Nine
(Source: Oztam/ Wikipedia)
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They’ve just about milked that sucker dry. Obviously this kind of audience warrants a season 4, but barring a canny, major overhaul it is doomed beyond that. I think the 1.3 million viewers they lost this year were 1.3 million intelligent people. 2010 was terrific TV, 2011 absolute contrived drivel.
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Can’t somebody please do the world a favour and blow-up so-called reality television? If I ever see another nobody having a breakdown while burning a baked dinner, dripping paint on their head while botching a home renovation, making a fool of themselves by trying to sing, dance or juggle, wobbling their way down a catwalk inbetween hissy fits, or crying because they’re too fat to walk up a hill it will be too soon. We’re supposed to empathise with these dreary sods and join them to their “journey” as they are manipulated and abused like flies having their wings pulled off. And then there’s the judges … the fat bloke with the cravat, what’s he about?
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Can somebody do the world a favour and get rid of Two and a Half Men? How much jokes about getting laid warrant that much laughter? I mean how long can it go on? and while we are at it, how about current affair shows? how many speed camera stories can people sit thru? and what about sexy forensic scientists with the blouse half undone cracking the case just 3 minutes before the end of the show with “Unknown Priors”. Reality TV sits in its place with everything else, its cheaper to produce than drama and it rates it tits off!! It aint going anywhere soon:)
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Kate – great cook, great person – but a very dull end to the series… yawnnnn..
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The gap in-between was a terrible idea, pissed me off and it seems loads of others and made the finale section much less engaging that it would have been otherwise… all the momentum had been lost. Time for a year off me thinks
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Change of production company .. change of fortunes???
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The 1 hr gap just knocked out most of the young kids … and then the parents couldn’t be bothered to turn it on again!
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The numbers truly paint a sad picture for Ten’s brain explosion.
Just another nail in the coffin for the stumbling dinosaur that is the TV industry.
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Can’t somebody please do the world a favour and blow-up people who whinge about reality television as if they are forced to watch it, rather than just changing the channel & watching something else?
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@Anonymous … I would gladly have changed channels if it was worth doing so. But as Bruce Springsteen sang all those years ago: “Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.” Television in this country has become nothing short of eye-rotting. And then It’s scary to think what it’s doing to our brains – and that’s just the ads. So I turned it off and finished a good book – you know, one of those old fuddy duddy things with paper pages in it. It was called Tabloid City by Pete Hamill, a veteran New York reporter and author, who set his story around the last day in the long and vibrant history of a New York tabloid. Great pictures for the mind – better than another boring TV cooking contest.
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