Seven’s The Big Music Quiz out-strips reality, with metro audience of 1.21m on debut
New Seven celebrity panel show, The Big Music Quiz, out-stripped both Australian Survivor and The Block last night, attracting 1.21m metro viewers on debut to be the most watched non-news show of the evening.
It edged out The Block, which attracted 1.15m viewers – up from last week’s opener of 1.07m – in the same 7:00pm time slot. The Block also topped the key demographics.
The Big Music Quiz is fronted by Darren McMullen, host of The Voice Australia, and picks the musical brains of two celebrity panels.
Australian Survivor, at 7:30pm, lost ground on its reality rivals after 662,000 tuned in to the show’s third outing, down 120,000 on debut. Despite the decline, Ten said the first three episodes of Survivor have boosted its audience in the time slot by 44%.
Ten announced last week that the show, resurrected a decade after it last appeared, will go to three nights a week from this week after a “solid start” to its ratings performance.
Nine won the night, capturing 22.1% of the audience, ahead of Seven at 21.8%, ABC at 12.5% and Ten at 11.3%.
The focus on Pauline Hanson on Nine’s 60 Minutes, which aired directly after The Block at 8:30pm, pulled in 879,000, just ahead of Seven’s Sunday Night on 838,000 which aired at 8:00pm.
Seven news topped the 6:00pm ratings with an audience of 1.37m, followed by Nine with 1.22m.