Ten’s Masterchef Australia beats Seven’s House Rules despite a 75,000 increase in viewers
Ten’s Masterchef Australia was the most-popular entertainment show last night, despite an additional 75,000 viewers tuning in to Seven’s House Rules compared to last Monday.
The cooking program achieved 885,000 metro viewers for the evening, with almost 100,000 viewers in both Adelaide and Perth.
The show outdid Seven’s House Rules, which ran in the same time slot with 861,000 metro viewers and Nine’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, which had a metro audience of 592,000. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation took a hit, down from last week’s audience of 686,000.
Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? won the later time slot, with 790,000 metro viewers at 8:30pm. Nine’s The Big Bang Theory and Seven’s The Mentor with Mark Bouris, which both ran at 8:45pm, failed to make OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings top 20.
Both shows were beaten by ABC’s Four Corners, which ran from 8:30pm and managed a metro audience of 516,000.
Overall, Ten’s Masterchef Australia and Have You Been Paying Attention? led the key advertising demographics, the 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s, in first and second place respectively.
The 6pm news bulletin was won by Seven, with 1.282m metro viewers. Nine News’ 6pm news bulletin achieved 1.020m across the five metro cities. ABC News attracted 782,000 to its bulletin.
Among the multi-channels, 9GO’s Love Island was the most-watched show of the evening, with 190,000 metro viewers.
Total share was won by Seven – at 19.5% – ahead of Nine’s 16.2% share and Ten’s 16% share. ABC and SBS finished with main channel shares of 12.9% and 4.9%.
