My Kitchen Rules finale takes the night, but is no match for MasterChef
The finale of Seven’s My Kitchen Rules was the runaway ratings winner for Monday night pulling in over 1.5 million viewers, but the cooking show failed to reach the high of Ten rival MasterChef which saw more than double the amount of viewers tune into its final episode.
The Seven cooking competition, which saw Queenslanders Veronica and Shadhi Abraham declared the victors, was the most watched show among all viewers, as well as among 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets.
The final episode was a strong finish for MKR which premiered with 1.1 million viewers.
However, it was lower than MasterChef’s first episode last year which attracted 1.4 million viewers – while its finale managed a much higher 3.29 million viewers.
But MKR was not helped by a major power cut in Perth, caused by storms.
Meanwhile, in overall Monday free-to-air TV viewing, Seven had an strong win with a 29.5 per cent share, followed by Nine with 25.4 per cent and Ten with 18.1 per cent.
Among the digital channels Seven’s 7Two also enjoyed a win against Nine’s Go, with 3.3 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively.
Monday’s most-watched shows:
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.525m
- Seven News Seven 1.391m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.346m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:30pm Nine 1.311m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.252m
- Nine News Nine 1.233m
- The Mentalist Nine 1.171m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:00pm Nine 1.159m
- Desperate Housewives Seven 1.094m
- The Big Bang Theory Nine 1.092m
- ABC News ABC 1.065m
- Home and Away Seven 1.053m
- Ten News Ten 0.855m
- CSI: Miami Nine 0.832m
- Melbourne Comedy Festival Ten 0.811m
Monday’s channel share:
- Seven: 29.5%
- Nine: 25.4%
- Ten: 18.1%
- ABC1: 12.8%
- SBS1: 5.2%
- 7TWO 3.3%
- GO!: 2.8%
- One: 1.1%
- ABC2: 1.1%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- SBS2: 0.3%
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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Completely off topic, and I’m not sure where else to turn with this question, but can Anyone point me in the right direction to find out the ratings for Brian Henderson’s final night in late November 2002 presenting (Sydney) National Nine News? I am unable to find the ratings pulled anywhere & require them for my study.
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Could not stand MasterChef Aus and definatly going to not watch the upcoming 2nd season…MKR was good but would prefer not to see another season
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Let me look into that for you Nate!
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Perhaps may have rated better if it didn’t feel like the contestants were scripted.
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amazes me how 2 and a half men CONSTANTLY pulls in 1.3mill. Surely people will get tired of it soon?
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As MKR managed to grow audience across the season with some quite cardboard characters and scripting, Ten must be rubbing their oven mitts together at the likely success Master Chef Season 2 will deliver.
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@Tom Dodson..I agree but there are plenty of braindead people who want to watch very average comedy…popular with families/kids also
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In other news, 93 out of 100 Australians found something to do last night other than watching My Kitchen Rules.
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Does anyone else think that viewers will be sick of the cooking show format by the time masterchef comes around again. After Masterchef, Celebrity Masterchef and MKR wont viewers be getting a bit tired of cooking shows? Not that I am an avid watcher of either programs… Just would be good to get some thoughts…
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I’m surprised that there has not been Hells Kitchen Australia as yet…With the other so called cooking shows, will probably get bumped to Lifestyle/Lifestyle Food channel over time.
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I think Masterchef has the advantage that it is shown in the Autumn/Winter when more people are home. I just didn’t get into MKR at all but am looking forward to Masterchef 2!
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For cooking enthusiasts and all foodies out there (like me) we can’t get too many of these programs. Bring it on. It challenges me to improve my kitchen skills and it is harmless fun. No sex or swearing or violence on these shows either.
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THANK YOU ASH!
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I’ve just watched it on Plus! last night. I think the show didn’t create any engaging characters which is the main ingredient of a reality TV. The production recipe was too bland.
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I’m either stupid or confused 🙂
Your first point says MKR on monday night reached 1.5m (1.525m) people… yet you go on to say it only got 1.1 million? and then you list monday night’s ratings with 1.525m, um which is it?
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The things I most liked about MKR was the contestants had to create the “restaurant” in their house, decorate it..etc and had time limits to prepare everything and the state by state rivalry.
Also I like Peter Evans and Manu wayyy better than ponsy cravat tossbag and the two other “chefs”
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I agree with Cash on in-house restaurant. That was quite new but when they moved the contest to MKR HQ, it lost the spice of the show and became ordinary Sunday Roast, to my taste, anyway.
But Peter and Manu, they were just stiff droids. I didn’t see passion in contestants’ food. They didn’t hug or lick the plate.
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@GTRoberts… not sure about Stupid or Confused 😉
it Premiered at 1.1million is what Mumbrella said.
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ugh… i miss read the “premiered at” part… I fail 🙂
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Obviously this is all part of Leckies “if you show shit they will watch” programming strategy.
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@Pong…agree with you about the judges being a bit stiff…Personally I like the chefs but they did not seem as buzzed as they could have been. I liked the panel of celebrity chef judges in the finals…Interesting mix of chefs
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@Cash Yes I’d like to see more of them arguing about how they liked crunchy raw or lightly cooked cabbage. Conflicts make more appealing entertainment, I suppose.
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Nate. Not sure if Ash was able to dig the data out. Here goes.
Hendo retired on Friday November 29, 2002 and his last news bulletin averaged 770,000 viewers, or 18.3% of the Sydney population. Interestingly, the bulletin “over-ran” to 18:36 – I remember oodles of bouqets of flowers – and across the 37 minutes 1,087,000 people (25.8% of the population) tuned in at some stage. The peak minute was 18:36 with 961,000 viewers (22.8%).
To put that into perspective the other days averaged between 450,000 and 484,000.
In essence one-in-four Sydneysiders watched at least part of Hendo’s farewell.
Source: OzTAM
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