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Seven’s Take Me Out launch episode ranks fourth in its time slot

Seven’s Take Me Out launched with 604,000 metro viewers on Monday night, failing to beat Nine’s The Block and Ten’s Australian Survivor, both of which shared the 7.30pm time slot.

The show also failed to beat ABC’s 7.30, which achieved 739,000 metro viewers in the same 7.30pm time slot, according to OzTam’s preliminary overnight ratings.

Hosted by comedian Joel Creasey, the new dating show was beaten in key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 by Nine’s The Block, along with Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? and Australian Survivor.

The Block was the most watched show of the night, with 1.068m metro viewers. Seven’s news program came a close second with 1.044m viewers, while Nine’s news show achieved 987,000 metro viewers.

Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? came first in the later time 8.30pm slot, with 774,000 metro viewers. Nine’s offering at 8.40pm, Doctor Doctor, achieved 647,000 metro viewers.

Nine won the night in both main channel and total network share, with 21.6% and 29.3% respectively. Seven came in second with 16.1% of the audience drawn to its main channel, while pulling in 26.0% across its total network.

ABC beat Ten in main channel share, with 15.2% to Ten’s 13.8%. The public broadcaster also narrowly beat Ten in total network share, with 19.4% to Ten’s 19.2%.

SBS, which didn’t have a single show reach the top 20, pulled in 4.2% for its main channel and 6.2% across its total network.

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