X Factor dominates Monday night while 168,000 Whovians tune in for 4am next Doctor announcement

Seven saw off stiff competition from Nine last night with the X Factor ending the winning streak for Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year Asia and British drama Mr Selfridge eating into Big Brother’s audience.

Hamish and Andy achieved audiences of around 1.5m for three weeks before it was suspended last week for the launch of Big Brother and dropped to 1.191m in the earlier timeslot of 7pm last night as the X Factor pulling in 1.379m metro viewers at 7.30pm.

Seven’s premiere of British ITV drama series Mr Selfridge, about the entrepreneur from Chicago who moved to London in 1908 to open the Selfridges department store, saw off Big Brother with 983,000 viewers from 8.15pm to 10.15pm, while Big Brother had an audience of 932,000 from 8pm to 9.30pm.

Ten’s MasterChef at 7.30pm was not far behind Big Brother last night with a metro audience of 827,000.

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