My Kitchen Rules ahead of Top Gear, but car show more popular among young viewers

Tim Burrowes

March 3, 2010 12:42

Seven and Nine found themselves neck and neck in the ratings race last night, with My Kitchen Rules and Top Gear the big-rating shows behind Seven News.

My Kitchen Rules (MKR) won the 7:30pm slot with 1.4 million viewers, ahead of Nine’s Top Gear with 1.385 million, according to overnight preliminary OzTam data across the main metropolitan markets.

The broadcast of only the second new episode of Top Gear was down from its launch episode which attracted a record 1.7 million viewers.

In the 8:30pm slot, another episode of Top Gear – which has been previously broadcast on SBS – had 1.52 million, but the time slot winner was Ten’s US crime show NCIS with 1.363 million.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Catering Equipment 4 Mar 10

For some of us who have a passion for cooking and cars, the tuesday nights are a double edged sword between MKR and Top Gear. I record one of the two while watching the other and watch the recording afterwards. I wonder how many other viewers out there do this and how it affects the ratings.

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