MKR records lowest audience since 2011 but still wins the night
Cooking show My Kitchen Rules recorded its lowest audience figures since 2011 but still dominated Tuesday night’s ratings to take Seven to a clear win.
David and Betty entered the kitchen in last night’s episode
Sydney duo David and Betty entered the kitchen last night, pulling an average metro audience of 1.193m, slightly behind Monday night’s premiere with 1.309m, according to OzTAM overnight preliminary metro ratings.
The cooking reality TV show was the most watched program for the night and across key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
MKR, airing at 7:30pm, was the only non-news program to crack the million in audience numbers, helping Seven to a victory with 24.4% audience share. Its lower number will also have been impacted by Seven’s decision to launch it before the summer ratings lull is over, with the offical ratins year not due to begin until February 12.
Sydney had the highest number of people watch the show, with 375,000 while Melbourne saw 298,000 ahead of Brisbane’s 211,000.
The competitive time-slot saw Nine’s rival reality blind-marriage show, Married at First Sight achieve 927,000 viewers, topping its debut on Monday night, which pulled 820,000.
Ten’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! was third in the 7:30pm reality battle, with 819,000 viewers tuning in.
Following on from My Kitchen Rules, Seven’s 800 Words returned to television for its mid-season, attracting 797,000. Episode nine was down on last year’s season two premiere which attracted 877,000 viewers.
The program which aired at 9:00pm topped Nine’s screening of the movie Monster In Law, which pulled an audience of 353,000.
Earlier in the evening Seven’s Home and Away drew 833,000 viewers for its second episode at 7:00pm, beating Nine’s A Current Affair which averaged 715,000 and aired at the same time.
In the 6:00pm news competition, Seven won the night with its bulletin achieving 1.042m ahead of Nine’s 933,000. The 6:30pm bulletin saw Seven reach 1.017m while Nine had 920,000 tune in.
Seven topped the night with an overall audience share of 24.4%, Nine came in second with 19.3% ahead of Ten at 13.6% and the ABC at 10.9%.
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