Masterchef leaves Air Ways with no room for takeoff

Masterchef has continued its strong opening week, delivering Ten 1.633m viewers on Thursday night.  

The show hurt the audience for the return of airline doco Air Ways on Seven, which rated just 676,000, just behind the Footy Show on Nine according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Thursday’s top 15 shows:

1. Masterchef Ten 1.633m
2. Seven News Seven 1.262m
3. Today Tonight Seven 1.117m
4. Nine News Nine 1.102m
5. The Real King’s Speech ABC 1.049m
6. ABC News ABC 1.007m
7. A Current Affair Nine 0.990m
8. Home and Away Seven 0.951m
9. The 7PM Project Ten 0.844m
10. Grey’s Anatomy Seven 0.782m
11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nine 0.774m
12. The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.764m
13. The Good Wife Ten 0.690m
14. The Footy Show Nine 0.678m
15. Air Ways Seven 0.676m

Thursday’s share:

• Seven: 19.7%
• Nine: 19.6%
• Ten: 19.0%
• ABC1: 14.1%
• SBS1: 4.7%
• Eleven: 4.2%
• 7TWO 4.1%
• 7mate: 3.2%
• Gem: 2.9%
• GO!: 2.8%
• ABC2: 2.5%
• One: 1.2%
• ABC3: 0.8%
• ABC News 24: 0.6%
• SBS2: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025

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Comments: 1

Thomas Dodson 9 May 11

heh go ABC with the real kings speech! been a long time since they have competed in these lists…

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