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Monday night Reality check

The Block and MasterChef continue a battle for first place on Monday night, but The Renovators beats The Amazing Race Australia.

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Two Reality shows are in a tussle for first place at the moment.

On Sunday night it was The Block, on Monday it was MasterChef Australia.

The cooking show pulled out 1.67m viewers in an emotionally-driven episode in which “loved ones” visited the final five, Survivor-style. Nobody was eliminated from the show as it runs out its final two weeks.

It ranked ahead of The Block‘s 1.48m viewers, which easily won at 7pm, but Nine is claiming a win for the overlapping thirty minutes when they were head to head.

There was another Reality battle at 8:30pm with newcomer The Renovators lifting from its opening episode, to 978,000 and winning over The Amazing Race Australia (963,000). Four Corners / Media Watch (867,000 / 732,000), Rescue Special Ops (818,000) and Man vs. Wild (205,000) all followed.

Elsewhere last night The Big Bang Theory was 941,000, Border Security / Crash Investigation Unit (877,000 / 737,000), 7:30 / Australian Story (660,000 / 839,000) and Mythbusters (284,000).

With its late timeslot Can Of Worms had to settle for 591,000 while Q & A‘s Tassie trip was 580,000.

A Tour De France Special Cadel: Le Triomphe was 169,000 for SBS.

Neighbours was tops on multichannels with 385,000.

Nine won its second night of the week.

Week 31

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  1. I just don’t understand how people can get excited over a show that is just so unimaginative as renovators. Seriously there is not one new idea in that show. Is television so bad at the moment that it forces us to enjoy this rubbish?

  2. Shame about Can of Worms – it is quite an entertaining program. matt okine was very funny last night – can’t wait for the day when he wears a burqa with his ba**s hanging out 🙂

    No sitting on the fence constantly like on Q&A

  3. People were setting Masterchef up to fail. Right from when the ads came out months before the show had even begun production. And look at it now.

    The Renovators Could follow. Especially considering The Block (which is crap compared with The Renovators) rates very well for Nine.

  4. i like the renovators but the first challenge of hitting nails into a bit of wood was a bit boring and went on for a bt to long but apart from that it was a good episode even though it wont its timeslot i think they still should have held off untill MC had finished and then used it as MCs replacement

  6. Watched AR and Renovators by flicking from one to the other when the ads were on, but found myself staying with Renovators more, even though I’ve been following AR since the first episode . Looks like I’m going to be sucked in to watching yet another reality show.

  7. There’s just too much good stuff atm crammed into one night. Last night I watched The Block, whilst recording Masterchef, and then once The Block finished, started watching Masterchef, then caught up to watch The Renovators live, saw Can of Worms come up and wanted to watch that, but then just burnt out. Couldn’t watch any more. Worms is a great show and needs to be at 8:30 and Renovators at 7:30. I’ll breathe a sigh of relief once Masterchef has finished.

  8. What’s ironic about the large amount of viewers watching renovation shows this year, is that there are so many suburban houses and gardens that look run-down and overgrown, in need of repairs. If the people spent the hours repairing instead of watching others do it on TV, we might actually all have beautiful suburbs out there.

  12. @Kelly, I don’t know what show you watched last night, but I forced four reluctant people in my house to watch Renovators and it took all of 10 minutes for them to now all love it!
    They all whinged that they couldn’t believe hammering a nail is what makes televison these days… and by then end of the ep, everyone is hooked in for tonights! Quite funny really.
    As for your silly comment about i doing ‘poorly’… it won it’s timeslot last night I think? If you don’t like it, then just turn it off… no need for the negativity… especially about a show which appears to be based around positivity.
    I like it! You just keep throwing your sticks and stones….

  13. Last night’s challenge on The Renovators made for a much more interesting episode, and the rating reflected this.. even though there was a ratings slide across the slot.
    That said, the numbers were on par with can of worms, whose ratings everyone has been shit canning for the last few weeks…

    It will be interesting tonight with W&L and next week vs. an extended AGT decider.

    For the money they have spent – anything less than a million per ep is a disaster.

  14. I’m not sure why but I’m really behind The Renovators and hope its numbers continue to grow. It’s not the quality of the show that’s bringing it down – I’ve heard some really positive opinions from friends and people in the office – I think it’s just because we’re all so worn out from these tense reality shows. Some of the women at work this morning were saying how they’re either all “cooked out” or “renovated out”. Once Masterchef buggers off (never thought I’d hope for that but there you go!) with luck The Renovators can win those lost MC junkies searching for something new to emotionally invest themselves in.

    By the way, how charming/cute is the host? 😉

  15. I didn’t watch last nights Reno, but glad it isn’t a big flop yet as I enjoyed Sunday’s ep. Supernatural was more important but probably tonight I’ll watch it.

  16. The Renovators was great last night. It should be doing better but glad to see it win its timeslot.

    Poor seven coming third in primaries and demos with a weak lineup. Nothing decent has replaced Brothers and Sisters. Nine could take the week if they do well wed to sat and not way behind tonight. Nine could benefit if that new 7 show fails.

  17. @steve I ask you the same question that you have ask me. How do you know the series will fly when they start on the houses? We are both guessing. I’m basing mine on 2 rubbish first episodes

  18. A message for everyone: let those negative Renovators comments fly over your heads and just remember that there was criticism about MasterChef in it’s first few weeks. Then it built to a 3 million+ finale.

    Interesting in the demos last night that Renovators came 3rd behind The Block and MasterChef in 16-39, whilst it was down a little further in the older demos. Maybe this show is attracting the younger viewers that aren’t so interested in The Block. Might help them out tonight with older skewing AGT.

  19. @Jezza
    Hope you have a large DVD collection as The Block and The Renovators aren’t going anywhere anytime soon

    @Kelly
    How can you judge the series on it’s second show? Most episodes will be an hour long and the cast will only get smaller. When all the houses are taken is when the series will fly

  20. I was planning on giving Renovators a miss after the Masterchef debacle this year but after the positive comments yesterday decided to give it a crack, albeit during ad breaks from AR. I must say I was impressed, it really does look slick and seems to have people with some reno credibility so I’ll think I’ll take this one on.

  21. march of The Renovators? hahaha. Please. It will be an average show in the schedule. It is so fake and forced. Just because something is expensive to make doesn’t mean it will be a success. There are too many characters and the editing is appalling. It is so rushed. Everyone has excuses for why it is doing poorly – bad timeslot, too much renovation, etc. How about because it is a bad show?

  22. yeah with all this reality overload it was dvd night in our house last night….MC excepted…..just don’t want to get sucked in with all the other crap

  23. I can only see The Renovators’ numbers increasing, particularly when it stands alone from Masterchef. Although I began to think I was living in a bizarre parallel universe when I watched people hammer nails into a piece of wood and mused that this is what passes for entertainment these days 🙂 However, once the competition moved to remodelling an old chair then the blank rooms it became much more interesting. Amazing how close to the Masterchef template this program runs – and I wonder how many more variations on this type of competition there could be … the mind boggles.

  25. Here comes the march of the renovators – watch all the people who enjoyed putting the boot in yesterday shut up as this show climbs and climbs.

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