ABC sees audiences desert Utopia and Reality Check as Ten pulls bigger audience share

Ten’s Wonderland largely maintained its second season debut audience, boosting it slightly from last week’s 519,000 to 532,000, overnight OzTam TV ratings show.

Meanwhile reality dating TV show The Bachelor continues to shed viewers, it was watched by 640,000 viewers compared to last week’s 683,000. However, it did help Ten beat the ABC in terms of audience share with Ten grabbing a share of 12.6 per cent compared to the ABC’s 10.6 per cent share. The Bachelor is the second most watched show across the younger demographics (people 16 – 39 and people 18 – 49).

The ABC saw its share fall on the back of substantial ratings declines for new comedy show Utopia at 8.30pm, which lost 180,000 viewers pulling 597,000, whilst the second episode of Reality Check which looks at the week in reality TV and is hosted by Tom Ballard also struggled, only drawing a metro audience of 392,000, down from 559,000 on its debut last week. However Utopia was the most time-shifted show of last Wednesday getting an extra 162,000 viewers taking its total audience to 940,000.

Nine’s The Block Glasshouse was the most watched entertainment show for the night drawing an audience of 1.056m however that wasn’t enough for the channel to secure a win, with Seven beating Nine’s share of 20.4 per cent with a share of 21.6 per cent. The Block was the most watched show across all demographics.