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MasterChef finale & DWTS tie on Sunday

10's cooking show tops the demos, Seven wins Sunday. New ABC drama lands ahead of current affairs shows.

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Although their timeslots varied, both MasterChef Australia grand finale and Dancing with the Stars tied on 614,000 metro viewers last night.

MasterChef topped the demos and rose to 698,ooo for the Winner Announced with Brent Draper, although both numbers are down on 2022’s 755,000 / 875,000 winner ann.

Elsewhere 60 Minutes was 556,000 and Restoration Australia drew 417,000.

New ABC drama Bay of Fires (384,000) landed ahead of 7News Spotlight (351,000) and The Murder of Lyn Dawson (337,000) then Nine’s Investigation of Charlie Teo (234,000) which was a 60 Minutes replay repackaged.

A late night Wimbledon Final scored up to 253,000.

Seven network won Sunday with 28.4% then Nine 27.7%, 10 20.1%, ABC 14.4% and SBS 9.4%.

Seven News was still #1 at 838,000. The Latest was 236,000.

Nine News drew 837,000 with a Late edition at 147,000.

The Sunday Project pulled 279,000 / 174,000. 10 News First was 176,000 / 156,000. A replay of Location Location Location Australia managed 160,000.

ABC News was 534,000. Compass (160,000) and The Beast Must Die (149,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (179,000 / 109,000), Hindenburg: Cover Up (120,000) and Tour de France (110,000).

Insiders topped multichannels at 113,000.

In Total TV numbers last Sunday were:

Limbo: 387,000
Ashes Series: 1.2m
MasterChef Australia:  778,000
Insiders: 563,000
FBI: 278,000
The Murder of Lyn Dawson: 570,000
Dancing with the Stars: 1.03m

OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 16 July 2023.

6 Responses

  1. Why is Dancing with the Stars so rushed this year. It is performing so well, so why are they having dance-offs and now two nights a week?? It’s ludicrous.

    1. For the simple reason that in two weeks time is the Logies. Instead of holding the final back or moving to another night they’ve gone for this option and then they can start fresh with a new show/s.

  2. The first episode of Bay of Fires was great. The ensemble is filled with an awesome roll call of excellent character actors. I was hooked. I hope the quality can sustain for 8 episodes because as I mentioned before, it has a bit of living up to in the wake of how impressed I was with Deadloch.

  3. I know in Australia they generally finish the Wimbledon broadcast at the end of the mens singles but with an Australian, Storm Hunter, in her first Wimbledon doubles final in Storm Hunter they should’ve aired that match on one of the multi channels (by this time Today was on in the east). I watched on Stan and while Storm and her partner Elise Mertens didn’t win but it was a fantastic match.

  4. I think “a 60 Minutes replay repackaged” while topical, shows lazy journalism and disrespects the viewer.
    I wasn’t a regular viewer, and find the advertising too sensational.

  5. Will be interesting to see the Wimbledon final’s ratings when they come out tomorrow from after 2am local (where there was still 2 hours to go including presentations and the most thrilling stages of a 5 setter), but no doubt another separate coding and lower as to not drag down earlier higher codings. I was one of them and yes not travelling too well this morning {snooze emoji}.

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