Married at First Sight debut up on last season but interest falls in Cheapest Weddings

The third season of Nine’s much-debated, blind-wedding show, Married at First Sight, pulled in 805,000 metro viewers on debut last night, an improvement on the 771,000 who watched the opening episode of season two, but down 30% on its launch in 2015.

It comfortably beat Seven’s own bride and groom reality offering in the 8:40pm time slot, Australia’s Cheapest Weddings, which finished outside the top 20 shows of the evening, drawing an audience of just 485,000, down almost a third from last week’s season opener of 708,000.

Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention?, which was up against both shows, pulled 728,000, down from 843,000.