Wild West MasterChef in ratings wilderness as House Rules builds for big finish

July 1, 2013 11:11

The dual impact of Nine’s current affairs show 60 Minutes and Seven’s semi-final of House Rules left Ten’s Masterchef with little oxygen in the 7.30pm timeslot on Sunday night.

The Wild West themed episode of Masterchef saw Ten’s flagship reality show continue its steady decline.

Audiences dropped from the 800,000 who watched the opening of Italian week last Sunday, and 890,000 who tuned in the weekend before, to just 683,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM. Masterchef was 14th overall and tenth in Ten’s target category of 25-54’s

Nine’s 60 Minutes -was the most watched program of the night with an audience of 1.585m.

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Megan Reynolds

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