Wild West MasterChef in ratings wilderness as House Rules builds for big finish
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.
Seven’s House Rules, which was announced as being recommissioned for a second series over the weekend – had 1.365m viewers. The final of House Rules, made by much the same inhouse team behind My Kitchen Rules airs tonight.
Channel Nine’s The Block rated strongly with 1.503m viewers, and was top program among 25-54s.
Nine’s House Husbands at 8.30pm had 1.021m viewers, behind Seven’s 1.246m viewers of A Place to Call Home.
Nine won the night with 23.7 per cent of the audience share, and Seven was close behind with a 22.9 per cent share of the audience.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.585m
- The Block Nine 1.503m
- Nine News Nine 1.503m
- Seven News Seven 1.365m
- House Rules Seven 1.280m
- A Place to Call Home Seven 1.246m
- Sunday Night Seven 1.189m
- House Husbands Nine 1.021m
- Grand Designs ABC1 912,000
- ABC News ABC1 850,000
- Dream Build ABC1 745,000
- Elementary Ten 729,000
- The Time of Our Lives ABC1 694,000
- MasterChef Australia Ten 683,000
- Ten News at Five Ten 596,000
Sunday’s share:
- Nine 23.7%
- Seven 22.9%
- Ten 12.4%
- ABC1 11.3%
- SBS ONE 4.9%
- 7mate 4.0%
- GO! 4.0%
- Gem 3.8%
- ONE 3.5%
- 7TWO 3.2%
- ELEVEN 2.6%
- ABC2 1.6%
- ABC News 24 0.8%
- SBS 2 0.8%
- ABC3 0.3%
- NITV 0.2%
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Megan Reynolds
