Married at First Sight boosts audience but falls just short of the 900,000 viewer mark
Nine’s controversial dating show Married at First Sight continued to improve its audience last night, climbing to 899,000 up on last Monday evening’s audience of 874,000.
However, it didn’t manage to beat this year’s season high of of 905,000 which tuned in for the second episode of the season.
The show, which airs in the highly competitive 7.30pm timeslot, was the second most-watched program across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Seven’s My Kitchen Rules was the most-watched show.
MKR pulled in a metro audience of 1.449m, up on last week’s audience of 1.244m.
Both shows easily out-rated Ten’s All Star Family Feud, which last night saw Chrissy Swan’s family go head to head with Joel Creasey’s family, which was watched by 500,000 metro viewers.
Seven had a main channel audience share of 27.7%, well ahead of Nine’s share of 16.8%. The ABC claimed third place with a share of 14.6% while Ten settled for a share of 11.1%.
Seven’s Downton Abbey, airing at 9pm, was watched by 861,000 metro viewers. It easily beat Nine’s Reno Rumble, which aired from 8.40pm, and pulled in 356,000.
In the news, Nine News at 6pm had an audience of 1.097m, slipping to 1.043m at 6.30pm. Seven News at 6pm was watched by 1.07m, sliding to 1.043m at 6.30pm.
On the ABC, 7.30 was watched by 726,000, Australian Story (8pm) pulled in 692,000, Four Corners (8.30pm) grabbed 664,000, Media Watch (9.20pm) had an audience of 687,000 and Q&A (9.35pm) was watched by 565,000.
In breakfast TV, Nine’s Today show was watched by 320,000, just out-rating Seven’s Sunrise which pulled in 311,000.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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