The Block and House Rules fight it out
Channel Nine’s reality show The Block narrowly stayed in front of Seven’s fellow reality show House Rules, on Thursday, with both getting just over 1.2m viewers.
The Block was second most popular show of the night, according to overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, taking 1.276 million viewers while House Rules had 1.236 million.
Ten’s Masterchef continued to struggle, with only 549,000 people tuning in for the weekly masterclass episode of the cooking show.
Nine had the lion’s share of the nightly ratings, with 23.9 per cent of all recorded viewers. Seven trailed at 20.5 per cent and Ten had 14.1 per cent.
The morning battle was exceptionally close. Seven’s Sunrise beat Nine’s Today by 340,000 to 330,000 while Seven’s The Morning Show (125,000) was just ahead of Nine’s Mornings (123,000).
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
- Nine News Nine 1.301m
- The Block Nine 1.276m
- Seven News Seven 1.258m
- House Rules Seven 1.236m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.069m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.051m
- Home and Away Seven 0.969m
- ABC News ABC 0.887m
- The Block – Unlocked Nine 0.886m
- The Footy Show – AFL and NRL Nine 0.844m
- Hot Seat Nine 0.787m
- Ten News Ten 0.781m
- Law and Order: SVU – Episode 1 0.683m
- Law and Order: SVU – Episode 2 0.680m
- 7:30 ABC 0.660m
Thursday’s share:
- Nine 23.9%
- Seven 20.5%
- Ten 14.1%
- ABC1 11.3%
- Go! 4.7%
- 7TWO 4.3%
- SBS1 5.3%
- Eleven 2.9%
- ABC2 2.8%
- Gem 2.8%
- 7mate 2.5%
- One 2.2%
- ABC24 1%
- ABC3 0.9%
- SBS2 0.7%
- NITV 0.2%
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