The Block makes it five wins in a row

Nine’s The Block has won every night this week as it leads to its grand final on Sunday.

The home renovation competition took Thursday night’s top spot with 1.586m viewers across the five city metro market according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Nine took the top three spots with Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year averaging 1.411m  and Nine News 1.287m.

Hamish & Andy was the top rating show in the 16-39 and 18-49 demographics while The Block stayed on top in 25-54.

Ten’s Masterchef was third across those key demos despite placing seventh across total viewers with 1.044m.

Stephen Fry returned to the ABC with new series Stephen Fry’s 100 Greatest Gadgets at 9:30pm. The show took 671,000 in total viewers to place 16th overall and second in its time slot behind Nine’s The Footy Show on 742,000. Fry did worse in the key age demos, placing 24th in 16-39, 19th in 18-49, and 18th in 25-54.

Thursday’s top 15 shows

1. The Block – Nine 1.586m
2. Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year – Nine 1.411m
3. Nine News – Nine 1.287m
4. Seven News – Seven 1.263m
5. A Current Affair – Nine 1.171m
6. Today Tonight – Seven 1.123m
7. Masterchef – Ten 1.044m
8. ABC News – ABC 0.904m
9. Home and Away – Seven 0.849m
10. The Big Bang Theory – Nine 0.812m
11. The Footy Show – AFL and NRL – Nine 0.742m
12. Hot Seat – Nine 0.742m
13. Ten News – Ten 0.718m
14. Silk – ABC 0.705m
15. Modern Family – Ten 0.689m

Thursday’s channel share

1. Nine: 27.0%
2. Seven: 18.8%
3. Ten: 13.8%
4. ABC1: 12.2%
5. SBS1: 4.4%
6. Eleven: 3.9%
7. 7TWO 3.6%
8. 7mate: 3.3%
9. ABC2: 2.9%
10. GO!: 2.6%
11. One: 2.5%
12. Gem: 2.0%
13. ABC News 24: 1.2%
14. SBS2: 1.1%
15. ABC3: 0.8%

Colin Delaney

topics MasterChef The Block

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