Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins hands Ten best Bachelor premiere to date

Network Ten’s newest season of The Bachelor, which features former Australian Wallabies star Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins, achieved 940,000 metro viewers, making it the highest launch episode since the franchise began in Australia.

According to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary figures, The Bachelor’s total audience was boosted to 1.244m when including regional numbers and topped key advertising demographics 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s. It also beat Nine’s The Block, which had an average audience of 823,000 and a national audience of 1.196m.

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