Dancing With The Stars takes the fight to Masterchef
The series return of Seven’s Dancing With The Stars pipped Ten’s Masterchef for the boasting rights in Sunday’s ratings – coming out just 2000 viewers ahead.
Dancing With The Stars, which ran for two-and-a-half hours, averaged 1.505m to the hour long Masterchef’s 1.503m according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.
However, during the time that both shows were on their air – from 7.30pm to 8.26pm – Masterchef came out just ahead with an average of 1.5m to Dancing With The Stars’ 1.45m. Both were well ahead of 60 Minutes on Nine which rated 943,000.
Meanwhile, Nine’s true life crime drama Blood Brothers rated just 803,000. History show In Their Footsteps fared slightly better for Nine, delivering 1.034m.
It beat Merlin’s series return in the same timeslot on Ten which rated 908,000.
Sunday also saw Andrew Bolt makes his debut on Ten. The Bolt Report rated 163,000 in its morning slot and 123,000 for its afternoon encore.
Sunday’s top 15:
- Seven News Seven 1.588m
- Dancing with the Stars Seven 1.505m
- Masterchef Ten 1.503m
- Nine News Nine 1.314m
- In Their Footsteps Nine 1.034m
- 60 Minutes Nine 0.943m
- Castle – Episode 1 Seven 0.911m
- Merlin Ten 0.908m
- Blood Brothers Nine 0.803m
- Hawaii Five-O Ten 0.787m
- ABC News ABC 0.744m
- Castle – Episode 2 Seven 0.704m
- Human Planet ABC 0.632m
- AFL on Seven Seven 0.567m
- Moby Dick ABC 0.517m
Sunday’s share:
- Seven: 26.7%
- Nine: 18.9%
- Ten: 17.3%
- ABC1: 9.2%
- One: 5.1%
- SBS1: 4.3%
- GO!: 4.0%
- 7TWO 3.4%
- 7mate: 3.3%
- Eleven: 3.0%
- Gem: 2.3%
- ABC2: 1.0%
- SBS2: 0.7%
- ABC News 24: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.3%
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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I’d never watch DWTS but each episode of Masterchef this year seems to be….predictable. I guess that’s the way to describe it, but you know what almost every dramatic pause is going to lead to now – I think the producers have made it too repetitive. And it was so easy to see who the final 24 would be because they were the only ones profiled in the lead-up episodes.
And what was with giving the guy with mild cerebral palsy the patronising “happy-music-kind-words” treatment? Doesn’t doing that just make him stand out more? I’d imagine he would have wanted to be treated like everyone else, but instead he was made out to be the special contestant who, even when they stuffed up, was doing a great job. Or am I just being cynical?
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Masterchef was a ratings winner on the core demo P25-54, some 31.7% higher than DWTS
Looks like the Nursing Homes, 55 plus tuned in last night for the total people….
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Channel 7 need to do a huge backflip and apology to Brynne Edelston after the inappropriate comments from the judges and Sonia Kruger. Really bad form. Not a good start.
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Not really a Brynne fan, think she is tacky, but she would never lower herself to be so mean to other people. She is harmless entertainment. Those comments were cruel and unnecessary.
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I heard her interviewed on the radio this morning and i think the comment by Sonia Kruger was a bit rough. Immediately thought Jealous so and so.
To be fair Brynne seems like a pretty nice person and didnt deserve that!
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Something missed in the hoopla of the battle of 7.30 was the battle of the multi channels. One Number 1..
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Their comments were terrible about Brynne. Just because she looks the way she does they felt they could rip her apart like that. They would never have said that the Golfing lady looked like a “sack of potatoes rolling around on the floor”
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Who are these judges anyway? Oh that’s right, lesser known wannabes than the ‘stars’ that are dancing.
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Just out of curiosity, what where the ratings for the Lady Gaga HBO Special on Eleven?
DWTS seems to be lacking in the “Stars” department. Plus the dancing was horrible!
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Was that Barry Hall in drag and with implants?
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Sonia Kruger is an absolute bitch – very little else to say .
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