Revenge and Masterchef dominate Monday’s ratings while the drama takes place on Q&A

The absence of Nine’s The Block made an immediate impact on Monday night’s ratings with Seven’s Revenge the most watched show of the night with an average of 1.452m viewers while Ten’s Masterchef was second with a much improved 1.396m viewers.

Meanwhile, ABC1’s Q&A – which saw GetUp director Simon Sheikh dramatically collapse during the live show – averaged 721,000 viewers, 20th for the night according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Seven won in channel share with 23.9%. Masterchef’s strong showing gave Ten second place on 16.2% while the ABC’s strong current affairs night was third on 15.4% share, pushing Nine to 13.8%.

Seven’s The Amazing race was seventh for the night with 1.101m viewers.

Nine’s drama Tricky Business tanked with just 558,000 viewers.

Nine’s The Big Bang Theory double bill rated 785,000 and 771,000.

In the morning slot, Sunrise beat Today by 345,000 to 314,000.

In the key advertising demographics, Masterchef was most popular show among the 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 age groups.

Monday’s top 15 shows

1. Revenge  – Seven 1.452m
2. Masterchef  – Ten 1.396m
3. Seven News  – Seven 1.367m
4. Nine News  – Nine 1.346m
5. Today Tonight  – Seven 1.232m
6. A Current Affair  – Nine 1.148m
7. The Amazing Race  – Seven 1.101m
8. ABC News  – ABC 1.042m
9. Australian Story  – ABC 1.019m
10. Home and Away  – Seven 0.979m
11. Four Corners  – ABC 0.855m
12. The Big Bang Theory – 7:30pm  – Nine 0.785m
13. Hot Seat Nine 0.771m
14. The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm  – Nine 0.771m
15. Body of Proof – Seven 0.769m

Monday’s channel share

1. Seven: 23.9%
2. Ten: 16.2%
3. ABC1: 15.4%
4. Nine: 13.8%
5. SBS1: 5.9%
6. 7TWO: 4.1%
7. GO!: 4.1%
8. 7mate: 3.5%
9. Gem: 3.1%
10. ABC2: 2.8%
11. Eleven: 2.6%
12. One: 2.4%
13. ABC3: 0.9%
14. SBS2: 0.7%
15. ABC News 24: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 9

georgie 3 Jul 12

Exactly the kind of results I like to see:
In the morning slot, Sunrise beat Today by 345,000 to 314,000.Seven won in channel share with 23.9%
Quite obvious that Nine has only one good show-The Block. Any wonder they want to have two series next year. Channel Seven needs to find a ratings blockbuster maybe two series of MKR. Looking forward to X Factor bringing in ratings for second half of year.

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Em 3 Jul 12

the one night I miss Q&A

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KD 3 Jul 12

It was Tony Abbott’s fault that guy passed out.

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christian mitchell 3 Jul 12

Can you add the viewing figures for Ten
s Breakfast please??

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MS 3 Jul 12

KD – and I bet if you ask Tony Abbott why he passed out, he will blame it on the carbon tax.

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dude! 3 Jul 12

love the warmth and compassion of the female panelist sitting next to him.

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cj 3 Jul 12

Federal MP Mirabella represents ‘The People’ providing they’re not sick!…Maybe the portfolio of Opposition Health Minister would suit her?

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Freespeech 3 Jul 12

Mumbrella censoring comments unfavourable to GetUp! now?
That tells us lots about Mumbrella’s political persuasions.

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mumbrella 3 Jul 12

Hi Freespeech,

We do moderate libellous and some other comments, although in this case I’m not sure which one you are referring to. It may have hit our spam filter. By all means try reposting.

Cheers,

Tim – MUmbrella

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