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Masterchef up by 40 per cent after Ten axes Reef Doctors

Ten’s Masterchef made a significant recovery last night, with ratings improving by nearly 40 per cent on the previous Sunday, which saw the audience driven away by the dismal performance of Reef Doctors.

Last night Masterchef delivered an overnight metro audience of 890,000, well ahead of last Sunday’s 648,000.

Last week, the first episode of Reef Doctors, at 6.30pm, averaged an audience of just 357,000, according to OzTAM.

Ten swiftly axed the show from the schedule, replacing it with a double episode of Modern Family, which rated 566,000 and 635,000, giving Masterchef a better inherited audience at 7.30pm.

However, The Block was the big winner of the night for Nine. It rated 1.628m – well up on last week’s 1.3m. House Husbands rated 1.011m for Nine.

Seven’s best performer of Sunday was Sunday Night which rated 1.331m. Aussie period drama A Place To Call Home rated a healthy 1.283m for Seven.

In all people, Nine narrowly won the night ahead of Seven with a share of 24.3 per cent to 24.2 per cent. Ten’s share of 14.2 per cent was comfortably ahead of ABC1’s 11 per cent.

In the advertiser-friendly 25-54 demographic, Ten’s performance improved again with Elementary sixth for the night and Masterchef seventh.

In share across the night in 25-54, Nine won with 27.7 per cent. Ten and Seven were neck-and-neck with 18.5 per cent each. ABC1 was on 7.7 per cent. In 25-54, Ten beat Seven to second place in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide while fortunes were reversed in Brisbane and Perth.

Top 15 shows:

  1. The Block Nine 1.628m
  2. Seven News Seven 1.478m
  3. Nine News Nine 1.456m
  4. 60 Minutes Nine 1.383m
  5. Sunday Night Seven 1.331m
  6. A Place To Call Home Seven 1.283m
  7. The Force Seven 1.283m
  8. Border Security Seven 1.121m
  9. House Husbands Nine 1.011m
  10. Grand Designs ABC 0.943m
  11. Masterchef Ten 0.890m
  12. Elementary Ten 0.851m
  13. Dream Build ABC 0.795m
  14. The Time Of Our Lives ABC 0.747m
  15. ABC News ABC 0.680m

Network share:

  • Nine: 24.3%
  • Seven: 24.2%
  • Ten: 14.2%
  • ABC1: 11.0%
  • 7mate: 4.4%
  • GO!: 3.9%
  • 7TWO 3.4%
  • SBS1: 3.2%
  • Eleven: 3.1%
  • Gem: 2.3%
  • ABC2: 2.2%
  • One: 2.0%
  • ABC News 24: 0.7%
  • ABC3: 0.5%
  • SBS2: 0.5%
  • NITV: 0.1%

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