The Biggest Loser makeovers boosts audience as primetime cricket trumps the X Factor
The makeover specials for Ten’s The Biggest Loser Families saw audiences for the reality show swell significantly last night, up 169,000 viewers on last week.
TBL grabbed 732,000 metro viewers according to OzTam overnight metro ratings, and also came second across all demographics beaten only by The Block which was on at the later time of 8.40pm in the Eastern states due to the cricket.
The third session of the fourth day of the second test between Australian and New Zealand in Perth was the most-watched non news show of night, with daylight savings meaning the 4pm start for the session was a 7pm primetime slot in the populous Eastern states, with 969,000 tuning in.
It pulled a larger overall audience than Seven’s 7.30pm offering X Factor and more viewers in Melbourne, although the singing show bested the sport in Sydney with a total audience of 958,000.
Those figures auger well for Nine’s experimental day/night test between the two sides in Adelaide which starts on November 27, with both parties hoping it will draw in more viewers and bigger crowds.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris the major news bulletins held up their audiences with Nine beating Seven in both the 6pm and 6.30pm timeslot.
Nine’s held steady throughout the hour with 1.105m at 6pm slipping to 1.101m at 6.30pm while Seven had 1.058m at 6pm dropping to 1.012m at 6.30pm.
However Seven’s special Stand by Paris show at 8.30pm mustered just 621,000 viewers, while Waleed Aly’s impassioned pleas for unity on The Project had 609,000 viewers on Ten for the half hour from 7pm.
Over on the ABC Australian Story was down significantly on some of its performances this year pulling just 692,000 watching the episode on Socceroos’ coach Ange Postecoglou.
In main channel audience share, Nine won the night with 21.6 per cent, followed by Seven on 19.9 per cent, the ABC on 15.3 per cent and Ten on 13.2 per cent.
Nic Christensen
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