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The Block dominates while Formal Wars flops

formal warsNine dominated a slow Thursday night’s television viewing, with The Block rating 1.372m metro viewers and highlights show The Block Unlocked rating 1.146m.

Seven’s only programme to rate more than 1m viewers was Seven News, which rated 1.143m. Reality show Formal Wars – hosted by Winners & Losers star Melanie Vallejo – rated just 676,000.

Ten’s best performer was News At Five which rated 664,000 while Masterchef rated 492,000.

Both Formal Wars and Masterchef were outperformed by an ABC1 episode of Catalyst on the chemistry of attraction which rated 705,000, according to the overnight OzTAM ratings.

Thursday’s top 15 shows:

  1. The Block Nine 1.372
  2. Nine News Nine 1.306
  3. The Block – Unlocked Nine 1.146
  4. Seven News Seven 1.143
  5. A Current Affair Nine 1.097
  6. Today Tonight Seven 0.992
  7. ABC News ABC 0.935
  8. The Footy Show – AFL and NRL Nine 0.828
  9. Home and Away Seven 0.814
  10. 7:30 ABC 0.770
  11. Catalyst ABC 0.705
  12. Hot Seat Nine 0.693
  13. Formal Wars Seven 0.676
  14. Ten News Ten 0.664
  15. Wonders of Life ABC 0.633

Thursday’s share:

  • Nine: 26.1%
  • Seven: 20.3%
  • ABC1: 13.4%
  • Ten: 11.8%
  • SBS1: 5.2%
  • GO!: 4.2%
  • 7TWO: 4.0%
  • Gem: 3.5%
  • ABC2: 2.8%
  • Eleven: 2.7%
  • 7mate: 2.0%
  • One: 1.7%
  • ABC3: 0.6%
  • ABC News 24: 0.9%
  • SBS2: 0.6%
  • NITV: 0.2%

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