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No contest as MKR runs its own race

Ratings: Pete & Manu lift MKR's numbers to a figure that's more than the competition combined.

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When Reality bites, it bites hard and My Kitchen Rules is so far in front of the competition that it is pulling more than The Block and TEN’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! simulcast combined.

Last night it was the only show above a million viewers, at a whopping 1.6m viewers, well above last Tuesday’s 1.47m viewers which was sans Pete & Manu.

Elsewhere ABC’s controversial doco on the Royal Family struggled.

Seven network won the night with a share of 31.2% then Nine 26.6%, TEN 21.2%, ABC 15.5% and SBS 5.5%.

Following MKR for Seven were Seven News (963,000 / 939,000), Home and Away (858,000) and How to Get Away with Murder rose to 659,000, up on last week’s 587,000. Million Dollar Minute  was 417,000 and Grey’s Anatomy was 275,000 / 173,000.

Nine News (987,000 / 920,000) was best for Nine then A Current Affair (910,000). Next best was Big Bang Theory (871,000 / 692,000 / 484,000), The Block (726,000) and Hot Seat (585,000) which won its timeslot.

NCIS was 604,000 on TEN then The Project (585,000 / 470,000), TEN Eyewitness News (532,000) and NCIS: LA (500,000 / 264,000).

ABC News (903,000) led ABC’s night followed by 7:30 (738,000), Catalyst (638,000) but Reinventing the Royals fell to 467,000 and Antiques Roadshow was 305,000.

Who Do You Think You Are? (259,000) was best for SBS ONE then Insight (238,000) and Dateline (212,000). Interestingly SBS World News Late (127,000) ranked higher than the earlier SBS World News (119,000).

Good to see Neighbours climb back to first place on multichannels, albeit at 228,000 viewers.

The Morning Show: 126,000 / 79,000
Mornings: 99,000
Studio 10: 49,000 / 34,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 3 March 2015

15 Responses

  1. It doesn’t help that Nine keep airing ACA stories relating to a MKR contestant. Them doing this surly must be getting some viewers to switch over to see what all the fuss it about.

  2. I do not understand MKR…but there certainly is no stopping it, or even slowing it down….I do not watch it….but I have been a Manu fan for many years….since his early TV shows….I watch Manu…France….but the MKR concept does not appeal to me at all…
    Last night I watched 3 episodes of Nine’s Forever on 9Jumpin.

  3. Its only a month into ratings and due to programming decisions by all the commercial networks I’m starting to find reasons to turn off and do other things. When I look at the overall ratings I would guess that I’m not the only one.

          1. The reality (pun intended) is that if the Block rated as it normally does, David Gyngell wouldn’t have taken a swipe at TV programming. This year, MKR is rating roughly the same, or slightly down, I’m a Celebrity has boosted Ten by a couple hundred thousand, largely at the expense of Nine. To argue that the viewing public is switching off, then we would have to see significant drops in Seven and Ten (vis-a-vis last year), and that just hasn’t happened.

        1. That means that there were nearly 10 million doing something else (I was one of them). As Pertinax notes, there is a massive drop-off after the kids go to bed when the manufactured reality programs finish. Mid-evening dramas used to do much better.

  4. Not the first time this season that MKR has done this. Manu clearly a bigger drawcard than the Irishman.
    And I think a moral stance against writing the words ‘I’m a Celebrity’ in ratings wraps should probably extend across board. Not just including it in a negative light whenever it seems fit.

    1. I actually hate how its being excluded. I remember Dave had his reasons but forgot and won’t bother asking as I don’t want him to yell at me with that “,Thanks” he does at the end lol….

    2. Agree. If he can use the term ‘simulcast’ in a remark about it then he can use it in daily ratings wraps.
      Still waiting David’s examples of FTA Comm Channels sports simulcast and split.

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