NCIS leads Ten’s ratings, but My Kitchen Rules attracts greater share of younger audience
Nine has narrowly moved ahead of Seven in Tuesday’s ratings, while among younger viewers Seven’s My Kitchen Rules proved more popular than Ten’s US crime show NCIS.
The most-watched show for the night was Seven’s Today Tonight with almost 1.5 million viewers, followed by NCIS at 8:30pm with 1.4 million, and My Kitchen Rules (MKR) at 7:30pm in third position with 1.35 million, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data for the metropolitan markets.
But while NCIS rated higher than MKR in total people, among 16-to-39s MKR was the leader with an average audience of 500,000 compared to NCIS’ 432,000. And among 18-to-49 year olds, MKR also led with 693,000 ahead of NCIS’ 638,000.
Last week, the premier episode of Top Gear was the most-watched Tuesday show for the two above-mentioned age groups, followed by NCIS and MKR in third. The week prior to that, on February 9, NCIS was the leader, followed by MKR.
In other time slots, Nine’s breakfast show Today beat Seven’s Sunrise with 362,000 compared to the latter’s 341,000.
Nine’s afternoon quiz show Hot Seat attracted 624,000 ahead of Seven’s Deal or No Deal with 564,000.
Meanwhile, Nine’s 6:30pm coverage of the Twenty20 International, Australia v West Indies attracted 1.13 million. It was followed by coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics at 9:30pm which attracted an average of 881,000 in the metro markets, and 1.3 million in a combined metro and regional audience share.
Tuesday’s channel share:
- Nine: 27.0%
- Seven: 26.8%
- Ten: 21.7%
- ABC1: 12.5%
- SBS1: 3.9%
- GO!: 2.8%
- 7TWO 2.5%
- ABC2: 1.1%
- SBS2: 0.7%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
Tuesday’s top rating shows:
- Today Tonight Seven 1.5m
- NCIS Ten 1.4m
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.4m
- Seven News Seven 1.3m
- Nine News Nine 1.2m
- 20/20 Cricket Nine 1.1m
- Grey’s Anatomy Seven 1m
- Home and Away Seven 1m
- Bondi Rescue Ten 1m
- ABC News ABC 905,000
- Olympic Winter Games: Vancouver Gold Nine 881,000
- Ten News Ten 866,000
- Brothers and Sisters Seven 852,000
- The Biggest Loser Ten 830,000
- NCIS: Los Angeles Ten 811,000