Masterchef wins across the demos as Seven wins the night with news and House Rules

Masterchef drew a metro audience of 965,000 at 7:30pm last night, down on last week’s audience of 1.058m.

It was the most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) and easily out-rated its reality rival House Rules.

Seven’s renovation reality series, which also aired at 7:30pm, grabbed 786,000 down on last week’s audience of 813,000.