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The Killing Season pulls big numbers to beat Love Child as Masterchef rules again

ABC’s anticipated documentary about the turmoil of the Labor Party in the Rudd/Gillard years performed strongly last night and dominated its 8.30pm timeslot against Nine’s Love Child.

The show got 986,000 viewers from 8.30pm – 9.30pm and was the fifth most-watched overall on the night, although it failed to crack the top five in any of the key advertiser demographics according to OzTam’s overnight metro ratings.

Love Child sipped back to 770,000 viewers from 859,000 last week and was fourth in all the advertiser demographics, while Masterchef on Ten won the demos and the night up slightly on last week to 1.136m viewers from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

However the Nine drama was the most time shifted show of last week grabbing another 246,000 catch up viewers to boost its metro audience to 1.098m.

Seven’s House Rules increased its lead over rival Reno Rumble, building on its audience of last week with 881,000 while Nine’s building show had 667,000, nearly 90,000 viewers down on the previous Tuesday.

In the news battle Nine secured a convincing victory over Seven with its 6pm bulletin getting 1.079m viewers dropping to 1.058m at 6.30pm, while Seven had 991,000 at 6pm and 916,000 at 6.30pm.

The Killing Season helped ABC build its audience share from last week from 10.8 per cent to 15.1 per cent, while Ten won the night with a share of 18.3 per cent with Nine second on 18.1 per cent relegating Seven to third with 17.2 per cent.

Top 15 shows:

1 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA TUES Network TEN 1,136,000

2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,079,000

3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,058,000

4 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 991,000

5 THE KILLING SEASON-EV Network ABC 986,000

6 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 928,000

7 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 916,000

8 HOUSE RULES-TUE Network 7 881,000

9 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 868,000

10 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 799,000

11 LOVE CHILD Network 9 770,000

12 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 736,000

13 7.30-EV Network ABC 733,000

14 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT-EV Network ABC 681,000

15 RENO RUMBLE -TUE Network 9 667,000

Audience share by channel:

Network TEN 18.3%

Network 9 18.1%

Network 7 17.2%

Network ABC 15.1%

Network GO! 5.2%

Network SBS ONE 4.4%

Network 7mate 3.9%

Network Gem 3.7%

Network 7TWO 3.2%

Network ABC2 2.9%

Network ONE 2.7%

Network ELEVEN 2.6%

Network SBS 2 1.1%

Network ABC News 24 1.0%

Network ABC3 0.6%

Network NITV 0.1%

Audience share by network:

Network 9 TTL 26.9%

Network 7 TTL 24.3%

Network TEN TTL 23.6%

Network ABC TTL 19.6%

 

Network SBS TTL 5.5%

Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2015. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.

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