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True Story sheds more than 100,000 metro viewers, helping House Rules reclaim top spot

Seven’s House Rules reclaimed its mantle as the most-watched entertainment program of Monday night for the first time in five weeks, since the premiere of Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy.

House Rules captured 949,000 metro viewers ahead of True Story with Hamish & Andy, which managed 890,000 metro viewers, down from last week’s 991,000.

Despite it’s decline, True Story with Hamish & Andy managed to place third across two of the three key advertising demographics – the 18-49s and 25-54s.

Masterchef Australia was the second-most-watched entertainment show, up to 903,000 metro viewers from last week’s metro audience of 871,000.

The show placed second across all key ad demographics – 16-39s, 18-49s, and 25-54s.

Ten also had the most-watched show across the ad demographics with Have You Been Paying Attention? reaching a metro audience of 843,000.

Running in the same time slot, Nine’s Here Come the Habibs! had 640,000 metro viewers.

In news, Seven won the night with 1.158m metro viewers at 6pm ahead of Nine’s 1.121m.

Seven’s win in news and entertainment gave it an easy average audience share win at 20%.

Nine’s share was 17.9%, Ten had an average audience share of 15.3%. ABC and SBS had shares of 12.0% and 5.1% respectively.

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