Nine’s Here Come the Habibs continues to slide as Seven’s My Kitchen Rules wins the night
Nine’s comedy Here Come the Habibs has continued to slide on its third outing, with 896,000 metro viewers tuning in at 8:35pm.
Ten’s NCIS was watched by 532,000 metro viewers, while Seven’s Rebecca Gibney drama, Wanted, grabbed a metro audience of 899,000 metro viewers at 9pm.
Earlier in the evening, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulled in 1.447m metro viewers at 7:30pm, easily beating reality rival I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! which delivered Ten a metro audience of 753,000, up on last week’s audience of 648,000.
Nine’s The Big Bang Theory was watched by 896,000, with 822,000 sticking around for a second episode of the US sitcom at 8:00pm.
MKR was the most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Here Come The Habibs was the second most-watched show amongst viewers aged 16-39. I’m a Celebrity was the second most-watched for the 18-49 demo, while Nine’s The Big Bang Theory was the second-most watched show for 25-54 year olds.
Seven won the night with an audience share of 25.8%, ahead of Nine’s share of 21.2%. Ten claimed third place with a 14.5% share while the ABC settled for a share of 11%.
In the news battleground, Seven News at 6:00pm was watched by 1.108m, dipping to 1.059 from 6:30pm while Nine News at 6:00pm pulled in 1.006m, sliding to 996,000 at 6:30pm.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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Nobody can compete with MKR. Still a good result for Habibs though. Went up from it’s lead-in of 822K for Big Bang, whereas Wanted dropped from its lead-in of 1.4mil from MKR (though it was 9PM so still a decent result). And Ten would be heartened by Celebrity’s increase on last week’s result despite losing its slot.
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Is it just me or are the commercial networks seriously lacking in promoting the return of their long established shows? I have just found out that Downton Abbey has already had two episodes of the final series broadcast already (after making viewers wait months after it was broadcast in the UK) and I only lucked upon NCIS’s new series being on last night
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OMG after all the hype, WTF? Just Another dumb Australian wannabe comedy. Oh puleeze!
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What? Laurel. It didn’t live up to your intellectual expectations. OMG, better write to the Race Discrimination Commissioner and lodge a complaint!! Can’t have ethnic stereotype comedy not being funny.
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I’m with Laurel. No qualms about ethnic comedy.. I was hoping it would be funny, as the scenario seemed to have the potential, but after 2 episodes it’s so weak and flat & just silly I reckon I could have written much funnier. Disappointing. It’s a wasted opportunity. It looks like it had good budget but just poor material, & will make it harder for anything like it in future to get off the ground. And likewise I’m amazed at the hype. The execs surely knew it was a dud but had spent the money so had to press on with it?
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Has nothing to do with race if a comedy is just not funny. Habibs has the usual tired writing that channel 9 was flopping out in the 90s. They will continue to fall behind 7 as long as the same decision makers occupy the big chairs at 9 and refuse to believe the world has changed.
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