Nine’s Married at First Sight edges out Seven’s My Kitchen Rules on first official ratings night
The Sunday reality television competition tightened last night, with Nine’s Married at First Sight scraping a win over Seven’s My Kitchen Rules for the first time this year.
Married at First Sight finished with a metro audience of 1.163m, while My Kitchen Rules averaged 1.162m metro viewers.
Nationally, My Kitchen Rules beat Married at First Sight with audiences of 1.717m and 1.578m.
Olympic coverage “over the entire Seven Network” except 7Two, 7flix and most of 7Mate.
This may be good news for the programmers, the people involved with the production and the television executives concerned, but it is another black mark on the quality and responsibility of Australian television broadcasting.
This kind of Schlock ( actually drek) should have an audience, but to top the ratings, with MKR a very close second, is nothing short of a major negative reflection upon television production in this country, where the mere weight of numbers is everything, and the only thing the networks are striving for. Television excellence, and its effect upon the Australian people, should be based upon so much more that this mindless twaddle.