Masterchef the most-watched non-news show, Seven wins with news double
News dominated a quiet Thursday evening with no non-news show breaking the 1m viewer mark with Ten’s Masterchef pulling in 912,000 metro viewers at 7:30pm to be the most-watched non-news program of the evening.
The cooking show easily out-rated Nine’s RBT, which was watched by 610,000.
Masterchef was the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Ten’s Shark Tank was the second most popular choice for 16-39 year olds and 18-49 year olds – pulling in 595,000 metro viewers at 8:40pm. It was down on last week’s audience of 646,000.
Seven’s broadcast of the AFL, which saw the Crows take on North Melbourne at 7:30pm, was watched by 432,000 viewers in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Seven won the night with an audience share of 19.8%, ahead of Nine’s share of 17.2%, while Ten settled for third place with a share of 16.4%. The ABC managed a share of 11.8%.
In the news hour, Seven News at 6:00pm grabbed 1.072m metro viewers compared with the audience for Nine News at 6:00pm 1.065m. Seven News at 6.30pm was watched by 942,000 while Nine News remained above the 1m viewer mark from 6:30pm with an audience of 1.022m.
At 7:00pm Nine’s A Current Affair was watched by 813,000, out-rating Seven’s Home Away, which had an audience of 637,000. Home and Away did not air in Adelaide.
On the ABC, 7.30 was watched by 604,000, Kitchen Cabinet (8:00pm) pulled in 535,000 and Rake (8:30pm) drew an audience of 570,000. Cleverman at 9.30pm saw its audience slide again to 241,000, down from last week’s 257,000.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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