TV ratings: Nine’s Home Made bombs as Ten’s MasterChef surges

MasterChef Australia appears to be coming good for Ten, while Nine’s big hope of Home Made debuted in a disastrous third place in its timeslot on Sunday night.  

Last night’s MasterChef pulled in a ratings audience of almost 1.5m, making it the third most watched TV show of the night according to preliminary OzTam ratings.

The show, which during its first few days dipped to around 1m, appears to have picked up momentum. At the end of last week, Ten released data that suggested it was outperforming its previous shows Big Brother and The Biggest Loser.

But home makeover show Home Made was a major disappointment for Nine in its 6.30pm slot. It rated only a fraction over 1m, well behind Seven’s Sunday Night (1.3m) and Ten’s Merlin (also 1.3m) which were its timeslot rivals.

Indeed, the success of MasterChef may leave Ten’s schedulers asking themselves questions about why the early evening was so strong, and later evening so weak. Rove delivered an audience of only just over 1m despite inheriting the MasterChef audience. And by the time Ten debuted its underpromoted new murder mystery series Harper’s Island, most of Ten’s audience had switched over for Bones on Seven or CSI on Nine or gone to bed, leaving just 575,000 viewers.

Sunday’s share: Seven 29.1%; Ten 27.1%; Nine 26.1%; ABC 13.3%; SBS 4.3%.

Sunday’s top rating 15 TV shows:

1. Seven News – Seven 1.6m
2. Nine News – Nine 1.5m
3. MasterChef – Ten 1.5m
4. Merlin – Ten 1.3m
5. Sunday Night – Seven 1.3m
6. Bones 8:30pm – Seven 1.3m
7. Border Security USA – Seven 1.3m
8. The Force – Seven 1.3m
9. 60 Minutes – Nine 1.2m
10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Nine 1.1m
11. Home Made – Nine 1m
12. Rove – Ten 1m
13. Bones 9:30pm – Seven 1m
14. ABC News – ABC 0.9m
15. CSI: NY – Nine 0.8m

Meanwhile, last week ended with a rare, and narrow, ratings victory for Nine. The week’s share: Nine 27.9%; Seven 27.7%; Ten 22.5; ABC 16.7; SBS 5.3%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 2

The Worst of Perth 11 May 09

Would be nice to see them pull the reno show leaving unfinished homes. Seems to be more to empathise with on the cooking one. Who could ever care about those design turds on the other show?

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The Buyer 11 May 09

Who’s surprised that “Home Made” hasn’t come off as Nine hoped it would? It didn’t work in it’s previous incarnation “The Hothouse”.

As for “Harper’s Island” again no suprise, nothing follows Rove and works.

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