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MasterChef clears the magic million for TEN

Ratings: MasterChef took 1.1m and Paper Giants settled for 846,000, but The Block topped Sunday ratings.

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2013-06-03_0730TEN and ABC were hoping for big results on Sunday but while the numbers were good it was actually regular viewing that upstaged high profile debuts for MasterChef and Paper Giants.

Seven Network share was 29.6% then Nine 28.8%, TEN 20.3%, ABC 17.2% and SBS 4.1%.

Seven News (1.5m) was best for Seven then A Place to Call Home (1.23m), Sunday Night (1.17m), The Force (1.13m),  Highway Patrol (952,000) and Lewis (457,000).

The Block topped the night with 1.61m viewers for Nine then Nine News (1.47m), 60 Minutes (1.29m), House Husbands (901,000), CSI (454,000 and CSI: Miami (266,000).

MasterChef cleared the magic million for its season launch with 1.1m viewers. Next for TEN were Modern Family (666,000), Elementary (665,000), Bondi Rescue (541,000), TEN News (532,000) and The Simpsons (487,000). The Americans repeat was 217,000.

Whitlam: The Power and the Passion (945,000) led ABC1 followed by Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (846,000), ABC News (821,000), Compass (369,000) and Antiques Master (256,000).

A History of Ancient Britain (304,000) was best for SBS ONE followed by World News Australia (194,000), Ohio Slave Girls: Their Story (160,000) and a dud launch for The Observer Effect (121,000).

Shaun the Sheep topped multichannels with 268,000

Insiders: 185,000 / 69,000 / 28,000
The Bolt Report: 166,000
Meet the Press: 91,000 / 100,000

OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 3 June 2013

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  1. We watched the Whitlam doco and Magazine Wars, recorded A Place To Call Home, House Husbands, CSI and Elementary.
    No interest here in MC, The Block or any other “reality” competitions.

  2. I quite enjoyed MC last night, I took it for what it is, light entertainment, easy Sunday viewing.

    Think I might stick with it tonight and maybe just watch the performances of the Voice online… might save about two hours of my life..

    Might even give The Truth is a go and watch The Americans if the Voice is running over time, which no doubt it will be. Never got into Revenge so it’s always been a toss up between Nine and Ten. Q&A and Media Watch get a view later in the week..

    Enough about me.. what about you?

  3. @paul2..yeah I get that..and maybe he did too much too fast .I’d even be ok with the electorate giving him the boot at the next election..but an election occurring in the proper course of time,not precipitated by some cabal in the night. Sometimes there are larger issues than politics at stake..like democratic government,independence,the freedom to choose and reject one’s own leaders ;and without outside interference.I’m not sure Australia got the big picture right here.A couple of hundred years ago some colonists thought a simple levy of a tax on their tea by George 3 was an action that could not stand if they were to be free and democratic,thus in some measure spawning the War of Independence, and the rest as they say is history.Well I think much the same principles were at stake here.And I’m not saying Australia should have gone to war for them,but at least spoken out for them loud and clear, and the best way to have done that was at that next election.For that, as has happened before,we should be sorry.By the way…I looked up and Gough’s nearly 97.Don’t know about his health,but if he can think back on his past,hope the old boy does so with some sense of pride..he sure did a lot in such a short time.

  4. I quite enjoyed the Sunday Night viewing. The Observer Effect was great really enjoyed it Barnaby Joyce was as usuall outspoken in polite way. Agreed with the majority of what he said but still disagreed with some other stuff he said. Also Whitlam: the power and the passion, i found some similarities to Kevin Rudd and the time when he was the PM. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars was good wasnt able to watch all of it because i watched The Observer Effect on SBS ONE still liked it. I enjoyed Mandy’s performance of Nene King very passionate.

  5. If Masterchef is moving away from cooking and towards personality clashes, they’re going to lose me as a viewer.

    It seemed like the contestants were excited about being on a famous TV show instead of about learning to be better chefs.

  6. One episode in,and I’m already hating the puerile “Battle of the Sexes” arc on Masterchef. I thought last night’s episode very underwhelming, though I am relieved they have done away with the tedium of the Top 50 rounds. Some incredibly irritating contestants hogging screen time last night – I had horrible flashbacks to the contestant casting disaster that was Season Three.

  8. MC had it easy last night, I watched it last night for the first time since season 2, albeit more because there was nothing else on. for a show that so many say prides itself in being all about the cooking, there seemed to be very little of it.

    history has shows that there is not room for 3 reality shows head to head on tv. one usually excels, one performs on par while one completely collapses. much like the MKR vs Block All Stars vs. MC:pro. tonights Voice vs. HR vs. MC will be interesting. The voice will obviously win but 2nd place will be a competition.

  9. @nicks – you’re right. You had to be there. I was only young at the time, but the Whitlam govt was on the nose

    with the electorate even before its dismissal. The images of people protesting weren’t representative of what the populatioon thought at the time, as evidenced by the landslide election to follow. Those days have been mythologised, but the public were sick and tired of one scandal after another.

    Whitlam was a great man who basicvlly had an incompetent cabinet.

  12. Maybe you just had to live thru the time to understand it,cause quite frankly having watched part 2 of Whitlam last night,I still don’t get it.A governor general ousts an elected government,in what looks kinda like a political coup d’etat,involving in some measure Malcolm Fraser and the response?A landslide victory for the aforesaid Fraser in the next election.Australia..you missed the boat big time.Someone should have had Gough’s back on this.Watching Mr Howard and Mr Fraser,to this day talking as if it were all quite right..no big deal..well it kinda got to me..feel kinda sick about it.

  13. @vitieddie Room reveals would do that.
    MC: It took at least half an hour for the contestants to do any “cooking”. The contestants themselves are already unbearable except for a few. Seems like all you needed to get on this season is to be loud and obnoxious.

  15. I thought MC was a decent start last night (a bit over the top from the contestants but all trying to assert their personality I guess), but I must admit I turned for Paper Giants and elsewhere in my house APTCH was turned at 8.43 or whatever bizarre time 7 schedules for its programs so we never got to see who won the first challenge.
    I will keep watching I think.

  16. Respectable numbers for Masterchef. I expect it to average around the same tonight.

    The Voice will likely win tonight, but it will be very tight between Masterchef and House Rules.

    I like the feel of this new series. A few big personalities, but it is definitely all about the cooking in the end (unlike MKR).

  17. I thoroughly enjoyed MCA last night – but am disappointed with the ratings it got.

    Loved the diversity of the contestants and Lynton must be considered for Ten’s ‘The Bachelor’. What a find – and only 25.

  18. Paper Giants was great. How this top quality Australian drama is outrated by mediocre productions like A Place To Call Home and House Husbands is hard to understand.

  19. I actually decided not to watch Paper Giants purely based on the ads the ABC screened ad nauseum, and those ultra-annoying texts that slid across the screen during other programmes. This was despite all the pundits saying it was must-see TV. It’s my own little protest.

  20. I enjoyed Masterchef although I will be happier when the boy vs girl premise is over.It’s annoying.As for The Block’s numbers- you gotta love a room reveal!

  23. A pretty decent figure for MC.
    Some contestants were still given very little or no air time at all. This is where MKR does better than MC. Contestants are given equal air time – and not too much of the judges.
    Those constant female/male stereotype gags were very irritating.
    I am hating Nicky already.

  24. Last night’s ‘A Place to Call Home’ was potentially going to be the last episode I would watch. Pretty well nothing has happened in the show in the past few weeks and it seems to be slowly leading to nowhere. Finally something happened, so I will give it another go next week. I find the storyline about the daughter and her Italian boyfriend incredibly boring.

  25. Not a good start for Masterchef when beaten by …

    1.The Block Sky High Nine 1,612,000
    2 Seven News Seven 1,503,000
    3 Nine News Sunday Nine 1,474,000
    4 60 Minutes Nine 1,291,000
    5 A Place To Call Home Seven 1,229,000
    6 Sunday Night Seven 1,168,000
    7 The Force – Behind The Line Seven 1,126,000
    8 MasterChef Australia – Launch Ten 1,107,000

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