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Dalai Lama draws in MasterChef faithful

The appearance of the Dalai Lama helped MasterChef Australia to some holy ratings, while The Block's switch to Sunday paid off for Nine.

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The appearance of the Dalai Lama helped MasterChef Australia to some holy ratings last night.

The show topped the night with 1.72m viewers, beating 60 Minutes on 1.3m and the excellent Great Migrations on 1.03m viewers, Grand Designs on 910,000 and Who Do You Think You Are? on 266,000.

MasterChef‘s seven cooks served up vegetarian meals to the Dalai Lama, who seemed to love them all in equal measure (of course). He even consoled a tearful Ellie when she explained how her dish had fallen apart. But it wasn’t enough to stop her landing in the bottom three alongside Billy and Kate -will she use her Immunity pin tonight in a three-way cook off?

Nine’ shifting of The Block to its traditional 6:30 Sunday timeslot paid off, with 1.58m viewers over Sunday Night‘s 1.32m and Merlin‘s 805,000. Significantly, 60 Minutes pulled a strong crowd as a result.

Downton Abbey‘s finale (1.59m) outrated The Mentalist (871,000), Die Hard 4.0 (736,000), a Midsomer Murders repeat (587,000) and Dateline (141,000).

Insiders 10th anniversary was 186,000.

The top show on multichannels was The Big Bang Theory on Go! at 342,000.

Seven won the night.

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8 Responses

  1. Couldn’t agree with you more, worst MC ever.

    I guess Kate calling him just the dalai is most appropriate in that situation. In fact all contestants didn’t perform well one way or the other: Mike’s dish is a visual horror (bloody look to a monk), Dani made a come back with an ancient recipe of the middle ages, Billy’s dished a ‘ poison’……& the list goes on.

    What a wonderful world.

  3. @deedee

    Obviously you don’t listen to radio because that song has been on over kill for the last 6 weeks.
    Nine need to be smart on this and put Underbelly on at 8.30 Sundays.

  4. @Jezza: Hmm… on second thought i kind of agree, The Block is horrible (recap after recap after recap) I forgot about Underbelly (They’ve ruined that Adele song for me though by playing it so many times).

  5. I agree that Nine is on the resurge, but that doesn’t mean straight away. It takes years to build audiences and successful brands and that is a challenge for Nine.
    Seven took half a decade before some of their abitious endevours paid off.
    2012 will definately be better but I think 2013 will be the big year for Nine.

  6. @deedee…I think the X factor will fizzle, but PTTR will be as strong as ever. 7 are running out of steam & 9 are having soccess with the dreadful Block, but they have The Hamish Show which will rate stongly, plus underbelly. Underbelly will only fire if the quality is good. I am not saying that ch7 will not win weeks, just that they will not be so dominant and may lose a few…ie not so powerful

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