Gogglebox starts strongly on Foxtel while My Kitchen Rules and Winter help Seven win night
The premiere of Gogglebox Australia on the Lifestyle Channel was watched by 146,000 viewers ahead of the series debut on free-to-air TV tonight.
Channel Ten will air the co-commissioned series, a local adaptation of the UK hit which follows people’s reactions as they watch TV, from 9pm. It was second on pay-TV only to Selling Houses Australia, also on the LifeStyle channel, which was watched by 152,000.
On free-to-air TV Seven’s drama series Winter saw its audience fall on its second outing, grabbing an audience of 918,000 at 9pm down from last week’s audience of 1.125m. Last week’s episode of Winter was watched by an extra 185,000, taking its total audience to 1.309m viewers.
My Kitchen Rules gave the show a lead-in audience of 1.632m in the 7.30pm timeslot. It won the night and was the most watched show across all the demographics, according to OzTam preliminary metro ratings.
It easily out-rated Nine’s The Block: Triple Threat which pulled an audience of 720,000 metro viewers, up on last week’s audience of 683,000. The Block was the second most watched show across all the demographics.
Both shows beat Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here which was watched by 600,000 metro viewers, up on last week’s preliminary metro audience of 588,000.
Seven easily won the night with an audience share of 26.8 per cent, while Nine lagged behind with a share of 18.3 per cent. The ABC beat Ten managing a share of 12.4 per cent while Ten settled for a share of 11.4 per cent.
Nine’s premiere of US drama series Forever, which is about Dr Henry Morgan, an immortal medical examiner in New York City, pulled a metro audience of 619,000 at 9pm, outrated by Seven’s Winter. A second episode of Forever at 10pm was watched by 522,000.
Meanwhile on Ten, the second outing of the new season of locally-produced drama Wonderland grabbed an audience of 438,000, down from last week’s audience of 445,000. At 9.30pm The Good Wife was watched by 296,000.
On the ABC, 7.30 pulled an audience of 716,000 while QI at 8pm was watched by 622,000. The return of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell at 8.30pm attracted a crowd of 768,000 and Judith Lucy is all Woman at 9pm was watched by 580,000.
In news, Seven News at 6pm won the night with an audience of 997,000, dropping away to 964,000 at 6.30pm. Nine News at 6pm was watched by 959,000, growing to 987,000 at 6.30pm.
Top 15 Shows:
1 MY KITCHEN RULES – WED Network 7 1,632,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 997,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 987,000
4 SEVEN NEWS/TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 964,000
5 NINE NEWS Network 9 959,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 924,000
7 WINTER Network 7 918,000
8 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 892,000
9 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 794,000
10 SHAUN MICALLEF’S MAD AS HELL-EV Network ABC 768,000
11 THE BLOCK TRIPLE THREAT -WED Network 9 720,000
12 7.30-EV Network ABC 716,000
13 QI-EV Network ABC 622,000
14 FOREVER -WED Network 9 619,000
15 I’M A CELEBRITY…GET ME OUT OF HERE! WED Network TEN 600,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 26.8%
Network 9 18.3%
Network ABC 12.4%
Network TEN 11.4%
Network GO! 4.8%
Network 7TWO 4.6%
Network 7mate 4.1%
Network SBS ONE 3.8%
Network ELEVEN 3.3%
Network ABC2 2.7%
Network Gem 2.5%
Network ONE 1.5%
Network SBS 2 1.4%
Network ABC News 24 1.4%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network NITV 0.2%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 35.6%
Network 9 TTL 25.6%
Network ABC TTL 17.2%
Network TEN TTL 16.2%
Network SBS TTL 5.3% 6.2%
Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
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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Gave Gogglebox 5 minutes and couldn’t go any longer. Starting to despair for the state of Aussie TV, haven’t seen such a large bunch of losers and haters in the same place at the same time. It’s the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.
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Sounding like a hater yourself there @Rosscoe.
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Hate where hate’s due @Blutack.
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I despair for Australian TV audiences, if there are a lot watching the awful MKR and even The Block and they do not watch what is one of the best dramas on TV The Good Wife.Wonderland I enjoy but I will watch Goggle thing tonight but I dont give me much hope past five minutes.
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@Rosscoe – It was better than your Team Quirk TV ad.
Hate where hate’s due
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it appears that the niceties of life have disappeared right down the line. Back in October last year I was approached to audition for gogglebox .. We were stuffed around a little with times, but I guess that’s show business, no Issue there. Clearly we didn’t make the cut .. No issue there either. Where my issue lies is: that despite being told we would be contact to know the outcome, to date no one from gogglebox has had the decency to make contact to say ‘thanks, but no thanks. Thanks for your time’. I’m actually appalled .. And NO, I will not be watching the show.
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This was & is the bottom of the pit in bad & waste of time TV shows
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Sour gapes Michelle
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I am saddened by the fact that a show like this was produced in the first place, but HORRIFIED that people actually watch it. From now on, i shall only watch the news, turn the tv OFF and do some community work, like meals on wheels, or aides for the disabled, anything worthwhile, and not turn into a mindless FAT soul with nothing to do but eat and watch tv.
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What is googlebox?
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I can not believe that the makers of gogglebox do not seem to have any respect for the viewers mentality to produce such rubbish. I tried to stay as long as I could to make a good judgement but gave up so quickly , nothing but trash television!!!!!! What makes it even worse that the commentators have such low respect for themselves to take part.
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