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Married at First Sight too strong for Survivor, Idol.

The unofficial TV war is off and racing, with Nine dominating the night with its scandalous TV weddings.

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Game on.

The TV war commenced last night ahead of ratings survey with Nine’s reality juggernaut Married at First Sight emerging as the champion.

MAFS pulled 840,000 metro viewers for its 10th season launch, just below a 2022 premiere of 869,000.

ABC was actually second in the slot with 7:30 (546,000) / Back Roads (527,000).

That left two other reality shows to battle it out.

Australian Survivor pulled 447,000 with the return of Australian Idol at 413,000.

While Survivor is well down on 2022’s 608,000 season debut, it was still second in the demos behind MAFS.

Elsewhere last night Ally Langdon’s first A Current Affair episode was 639,000, just pipped by ABC News at 641,000.

Seven News was #1 for the night at up to 900,000, well ahead of Nine News at up to 794,000.

Nine easily won the night’s share at 32.4% then Seven 23.9%, ABC 18.9%, 10 17.5%, and SBS 7.3%.

Full ratings wraps resume with OzTAM survey but you can read more on last night here.

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  1. Not surprised that Married at First Sight won last night. It’s been very popular over the last few years (even if its not my cup of tea). I am surprised that Survivor beat Idol though. Will see how both compete against each other in coming weeks.

    And am echoing what others have said though – that movie length episodes of these reality shows each night is too much. What’s wrong with having the show go for an hours length, especially the ones early on in the season…

    1. This has been commented on many times, but it’s cheaper and easier for networks to spin out shows they’re already making than to make or show another new program to fill in the time.

  2. I’m surprised Survivor beat out Idol in the end given 10 unfortunately usually place 3rd. Watched Survivor last night, flicked over and caught a few idol acts until 7s ads synced up with 10s so didn’t go back to 7 after that. All the shows certainly drawn out, who wants to be watching the same thing for over 2 hours, any wonder viewers are dropping off.

  3. I enjoyed Australian Survivor but at two hours it was just too long. I am guessing to compete with MAFS and AI so people don’t switch channels.
    Fingers crossed it picks up and gains some momentum.

  5. I watched Idol and really liked Kyle and Meghan, they were funny and made it more entertaining! I was exhausted after an hour and 15 min though and switched over to Foxtel. We’ve all said it time and time again on these threads, cut shows down to an hour like they used to be and you will keep your viewers and your ratings will be higher, but TV bosses keep doing it. No surprise MAFS won.

  6. The time these shows go til is the reason FTA is a slow death. I love survivor but 2 hrs is just ridiculous even for a first episode. Im in qld so i googled who left at 9pm and went to bed. Seriously no reality shows should drag on alst 90 minutes its an insult to the audience.

  7. I watched idol on 7plus . Enjoyed it although you can smell the set ups a mile away . But interesting to see how it progresses . Ten should have bit the Bullet and at least try survivor at 7 to get jump

  8. For the first time in years (really) I watched an episode of a mainstream commercial FTA reality show (albeit on BVOD). Idol nostalgia got to me and I gave it a try. Positivies were the lack of contestant back stories and other filler, and also Meghan Trainor was a revelation. Negatives were lack of host interactions with contestants (too much focus on celebrity judges) and largely predictable audition outcomes – felt like nearly everyone who went in with piano accompanient was going to get through and everyone who sang a cappela with little introduction was a joke audition. Another thing which might seem trivial was the lack of the original theme song and credits – they actually haven’t dated that badly and would have been a nice nod to the past. I might tune in again but 90-120 minute episodes are unneccessary.

  9. Why don’t some of the channels have their shows on wednesday, thursday and friday? Its obvious MAFS is unbeatable. I like American Idol, Survivor and MAFS and have to choose which one to watch.

  10. Watch 2 hours of drawn out reality shows full of adds and recaps or stream? It was an easy decision for me. I get the feeling my days of watching FTA TV at 7:30 have come to an end and I feel quite happy knowing that.

  11. To be different to all the other comments posted today, I watched the ABC from 7pm to around 9.30 and thoroughly enjoyed all that was on. ABC news, the best news on tv, 7.30 with a great interview with Bill Gates, Back Roads which is always great viewing, Four Corners and of course Media Watch. I notice that ABC rated No. 2 for that time period, ahead of 7 and 10, and that is great.

    1. Me too Sunny. Must been something in the immunotherapy. (tvtonight.com.au/2020/11/peter-overton-do-it-now.html#comments)
      After months of endless promos I felt I had seen enough of 7, 9 & 10. ABC had great offerings, with not a MAFS, Idol or Survivor promo in sight.

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