Nine’s Married at First Sight UK only pulls in 569,000 on debut as The Block wins night
The debut of Married at First Sight UK on Nine at 8.45pm last night has proven less popular than its Australian iteration which aired earlier this year, with the show only pulling in 569,000 metro viewers.
The debut of the Australian version of the show in May this year was watched by 1.134m.
It was out-rated by Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? which was watched by 575,000 from 8.30pm while both shows beat Seven’s showing of a repeat of The Big Bang Theory at 9pm which was watched by 560,000. In September Seven announced it had poached the first seven series of the US sitcom while Nine retained the rights to any new episodes.
Seven’s chief programmer Angus Ross told Mumbrella: “The Big Bang Theory provides demographic certainty for Seven. It will ensure we have Australia’s biggest digital channels and will give 7Mate unprecedented demographic dominance.”
Meanwhile earlier in the evening, Nine’s The Block was the most-watched non-news show of the evening, pulling in 1.078m at 7.30pm. It beat Seven’s The X Factor which was watched by 1.028m while Ten’s The Biggest Loser Families only managed to grab 499,000 metro viewers.
The Block was the most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
On pay-TV the final audience tally for the Wallabies v Scotland Rugby World Cup quarter final thriller was 163,000 national viewers for the 2am AESDT kick off. The Walking Dead continued to pull a strong audience on FX with 65,000 tuning in.
Seven just managed to win the night with an audience share of 19.9 per cent, just ahead of Nine’s share of 19.8 per cent. The ABC claimed third place with a share of 17.1 per cent while Ten settled for a share of 11.5 per cent.
On the ABC, last night’s Four Corners which investigated the relationship between Fair Work Commission official Michael Lawler and union whistleblower Kathy Jackson was watched by 855,000 metro viewers in the 8.30pm timeslot.
7.30 pulled in 852,000 metro viewers, Australian Story at 8pm was watched by 817,000, Media Watch had an audience of 752,000 at 9.20pm and Q&A grabbed 575,000 at 9.30pm.
The news hour was won by Nine News, with its 6.30pm broadcast watched by 1.091m after 984,000 tuned in at 6pm. Seven News at 6pm was watched by 1.037m, dipping to 989,000 at 6.30pm.
In the breakfast battleground, Seven’s Sunrise was watched by 310,000 just beating Nine’s Today Show which saw 305,000 tune in.
Top 15 Shows:
1 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network Nine 1,091,000
2 THE BLOCK -MON Network Nine 1,078,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network Seven 1,037,000
4 THE X FACTOR-MON Network Seven 1,028,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network Nine 1,014,000
6 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network Seven 989,000
7 NINE NEWS Network Nine 984,000
8 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 905,000
9 FOUR CORNERS-EV Network ABC 855,000
10 7.30-EV Network ABC 852,000
11 AUSTRALIAN STORY-EV Network ABC 817,000
12 HOME AND AWAY Network Seven 799,000
13 MEDIA WATCH-EV Network ABC 752,000
14 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Network Seven 619,000
15 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 607,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 19.9%
Network 9 19.8%
Network ABC 17.1%
Network TEN 11.5%
Network 7TWO 5.8%
Network SBS 3.9%
Network GO! 3.8%
Network Gem 3.7%
Network ONE 3.4%
Network 7mate 3.1%
Network ELEVEN 2.8%
Network ABC2 2.4%
Network SBS 2 1.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.0%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.0%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 28.8%
Network 9 TTL 27.3%
Network ABC TTL 21.0%
Network TEN TTL 17.7%
Network SBS TTL 5.2%
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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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Goes to show how weak UK telly performs in Aus
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The union boss was not Michael lawyer it was Kathy . You got it wrong.
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Hi Georgia,
You’re right, we had it the wrong way round. Changed now.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
Yeah, I would have taken a peak if the married show was Australians, but not foreigners.
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