My Kitchen Rules ahead of Top Gear, but car show more popular among young viewers
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.
Among younger audiences, 16-39s and 18-49s, Top Gear proved to be the winner, ahead of MKR.
Meanwhile, in free-to-air viewing across the networks’ main channels, Seven and Nine had a 27.9 per cent share respectively, followed by Ten with 21.3 per cent.
But with the addition of their digital channels, the Seven Network was the overall Tuesday ratings winner, with 7Two attracting 2.2 per cent, ahead of Nine’s Go with 2 per cent.
Tuesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 27.9%
- Nine: 27.9%
- Ten: 21.3%
- ABC1: 12.6%
- SBS1: 3.3%
- 7TWO 2.2%
- GO!: 2.0%
- ABC2: 1.4%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
- SBS2: 0.5%
Tuesday’s top-rating shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.402m
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.400m
- Top Gear – Episode 1 Nine 1.385m
- NCIS Ten 1.363m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.248m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.161m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.153m
- Top Gear – Episode 2 Nine 1.152m
- Nine News Nine 1.134m
- Grey’s Anatomy Seven 1.046m
- Home and Away Seven 1.025m
- ABC News ABC 0.937m
- Bondi Rescue Ten 0.934m
- Brothers and Sisters Seven 0.887m
- Ten News Ten 0.855m
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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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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