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My Kitchen Rules hits 1.84m viewers

Ratings: As we race towards the start of ratings, My Kitchen Rules hits a season high.

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2014-02-04_1012We’re still not in the official ratings period yet and already My Kitchen Rules is roasting the competition.

Last night it averaged 1.84m viewers, it’s best numbers this season. The show was streets ahead of The Block‘s 1.13m and more than three times the audience of The Biggest Loser at 499,000.

The episode saw South Australians Deb and Rick cooking, but tonight outspoken WA friends Chloe and Kelly face the music with one team set to be eliminated from the group by the end of the episode.

Given the three way competition, the numbers for The Block are quite decent, but TEN will surely be mulling their options for a post-Olympics schedule. That 7pm timeslot is the elephant in their room.

Nationally Seven also won both half hours between 6-7pm, while Nine’s Hot Seat (661,000) beat Million Dollar Minute (416,000).

Australian Story returned with 814,000 for ABC1.

Full ratings wraps resume next week.

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  2. @The Moops 5-48pm….Thank you for reading and your comments.

    The theme was set for entire series, within the first few moments, with statements like ‘ Wow look at all this cheese’ ??? when the cheese man opened the cool room doors, closely followed by the discovery that a vital component was somehow missing in the quantities required?.
    Much like other contestants heading off( ???km’s) to buy ‘Written Menu Items’ not even knowing when/where and if they are available, “Utter B/S”, surely they do not think we think they have not phoned ahead, because given the time constraints, the well presented fancy menu’s are obviously printed well in advance?
    I will say this now( and probably again after then next ratings) after watching tonight’s ” Non Result ” that just because it has happened before, does not make it right.
    Seven are heading fast,the way of Ten, where Bolt and…

  4. And I’m not so sure SYTYCD will be as big a flop as some people think it will be.

    During it’s first 2 seasons, it rated really well on Sunday nights, and only struggled in season 3 when Ten moved it to Wednesday. Plus, they only ever did 3 seasons of the Australiam version, and the last one was almost 4 years ago, so it’s not like the format has been overused and done to death, like TBL and MCA. And there aren’t any other talent shows like that on at the moment, at least not until The Voice starts.

    Plus, Seven and Nine are generally weaker on Friday and Saturday, and that’s when Ten will have the Big Bash final and the Sochi opening games, both of which are capable of doing solid numbers, which could serve as a launch pad for SYTYCD.

    And MKR isn’t invincible. It was bringing in 1.9 million regularly last year, until The Voice started and MKR dropped to 1.4 million…

  5. Why not move The Project to 7:30 pm? I think it’s a bad idea to have Neighbours and The Project directly against each other, because they are both aiming for the same youth demo, plus Neighbours and The Project used to air back to back, so it’s obvious that they will share some of their fanbase.

    The reality shows could then be stripped at 7pm, with The Project after it, so it would look like this:

    5:00 News
    6:00 Family entertainment show
    6:30 Neighbours
    7:00 TBL//Masterchef etc
    7:30 The Project (1hr on Monday, 30 mins Tues-Friday)
    8:00 Modern Family/Bondi Rescue/Living Room etc (Tues-Friday
    8:30 Drama

    Most agree that The Project was better as a 30 minute show, but the hour on Monday would serve for longer stories/interviews. And it would give Ten a point of difference from 7 & 9 in each timeslot.

  6. @Rutzie, agree about the format for Million Dollar Minute. It is definitely flawed as to me, it almost completely lacks tension and excitement for the viewer. Also, the five questions asked during the Million Dollar Minute are not difficult enough. Winning $50K should not be a cakewalk, they need to toughen the questions up big time. Not sure how they can fix it, though Simon is excellent as a host, I agree.

    @Cynical Old Codger, firstly, great screen name! Secondly, yeah, the ratio of dramas every team has in the kitchen smacks of being scripted and/or set up by the segment producers. These are amateur cooks, so I buy that there will be stuff-ups. However, when every team has them at crucial times during their preparation, I stop buying it, as you do start questioning the believability of it. The cake baking stuff-up last night stretched my credulity to breaking point. Why…

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