Viewers say ‘no grazie’ to Italian Masterchef
The fluctuating fortunes of MasterChef saw its audience drop on Sunday compared to the same time a week ago.
Ten’s flagship reality show rated 800,000 for the start of its Italian week on Sunday, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM. This was down on last Sunday’s 890,000 and fourth in its timeslot. Last Sunday had seen a 40 per cent jump in Masterchef’s audience.
In the 7.30 battle, Nine’s 60 Minutes was top with 1.557m viewers. Seven’s Border Security was next with 1.079m viewers. ABC1’s Grand Designs was third with 914,000.
Top show for the night was The Block’s 1.653m on Nine.
The top Australian drama was Seven’s A Place To Call Home which rated 1.196m. Nine’s House Husbands rated 1.028m. ABC1’s The Time Of Our Lives rated 803,000.
In Ten’s chosen demographic of 25-54, Masterchef fared much better, rising from 12th for the night to eighth. t also moved past Border Security and Grand Designs.
In overall share for Sunday night, Nine won with a 25 per cent share, followed by Seven’s 22.7. Ten rated 12.5 per cent and ABC1 was on 12.1 per cent.
Top 15 shows:
- The Block Nine 1.653m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.557m
- Nine News Nine 1.517m
- Seven News Seven 1.421m
- Sunday Night Seven 1.278m
- Highway Patrol Seven 1.261m
- A Place To Call Home Seven 1.196m
- Border Security Seven 1.079m
- House Husbands Nine 1.028m
- Grand Designs ABC 0.914m
- The Time of Our Lives ABC 0.803m
- Masterchef Ten 0.800m
- Dream Build ABC 0.783m
- Elementary Ten 0.780m
- ABC News ABC 0.756m
Sunday’s share:
- Nine: 25.0%
- Seven: 22.7%
- Ten: 12.5%
- ABC1: 12.1%
- Eleven: 4.2%
- GO!: 3.8%
- 7mate: 3.5%
- One: 3.5%
- SBS1: 3.5%
- 7TWO 3.4%
- Gem: 2.0%
- ABC2: 1.7%
- ABC News 24: 0.8%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.4%
- NITV: 0.1%
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Again, it’s a shame MasterChef is getting caned – last night was another good ep.
Ten is poison.
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The new series of Masterchef is DIRE. For some reason, the producers decided to dumb down the show. WHY?! Masterchef used to be a great competition and it discovered some talented amateur chefs. This year, the contestants are weak home cooks at best. The ratings reflect that.
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