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Nine wins Wednesday

Renovation Reality shows help Nine win the night, as TEN takes second and Seven has to settle for third place.

Channel Nine pulled out a win on Wednesday night with audiences checking out renovation Reality shows The Block and Top Design.

Airing from 7pm – 9:20pm the two shows helped ensure that Seven was pushed into third place, with TEN taking second place.

With so many shows starting at different times it’s difficult to measure head-to-head battles.

The top show for the night was MasterChef Australia‘s 90 minute New York challenge on 1.62m viewers. It was a strong lead into Offspring at 9pm on 960,000.

The Block won at 7pm with 1.3m viewers, many of whom stayed to sample the new Jamie Durie outing on 1.15m. Later, RPA pulled 788,000.

Seven’s Highway Patrol (941,000) was trapped between the Reality battle, with World’s Deadliest Roads dropping to 789,000. Criminal Minds rose to 896,000. Covert Affairs premiered to 614,000.

A new Spicks And Specks had to settle for 702,000 on ABC1. Angry Boys dropped to 453,000, now without any excuses of State of Origin drawcards. Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable was 380,000.

Neighbours was the top multichannel show on 332,000.

Nine won the night, and for the second time this week was first in primary channels too.

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25 Responses

  1. Nine has been struggling at 7pm since Temptation and long before that Sale of the Century got the chop back in 2009.There is only so much 2.5 men or Big Bang Theory one can take before they get fed up and switch to the opposition elsewhere.Granted they needed something fresh and new but as a year round except for the non ratings summer period offering The Block is not the answer.
    I think from memory around the time Charlie Sheen got axed from 2.5 men before they announced Ashton Kutcher as his replacement Nine were planning to do a News Show with Karl Stefanovic and Leila McKinnon as it’s replacement.I would like to see that come to fruition.

  2. Sadly none of the commercial reality show are any good.
    Masterchef U.k -The best / Masterchef Australia – sucks!!
    Top Design -U.S – Good / Top Design – Australia – sucks!!!!

    The only good aussie shows are only in pay tv:-

    Selling Houses Australia – great show.
    Grand Design Australia – good show.
    Project Runway – another good show.

  3. Wonder if next year they’ll dump Top Design and restore Jamie Durie as host of The Block? I hope so!

    Oh, and Nine, please get rid of Shelley Craft, she’s so bloody annoying.

  4. Sorry that was supposed to be “Top Design’s ratings weren’t that great”

    @Rickard Lomez – Are you serious? The UK version was faltering in the ratings across the pond. I mean it was doing ok but certainly wasn’t as huge as it is here. I think the UK version has now even adopted our version if i’m not mistaken.

  5. They may adjust with time shifts ect because i really thought MC would have pulled in a better number than that. It was one of the best episodes all this season.

    Top Design’s ratings were that great either. As for Seven, well who out there really wants to watch a show called World’s Deadliest Roads???

  6. It was expected. Nine did a lot of promotion for Top Design but failed to deliver. I was looking forward to it for weeks but it was a huge disappointment. Highly doubt they will get the same figures next week.
    The Renovators will go very well imo if its a similar format to Masterchef.

  7. If every night was a renovation night on ch9 they would win the week. Well that is what their programmers are thinking now. I managed to avoid MCA, Block & TD by watching Kirsten Dunst and some of her hot mates in Bring it On followed by Sons of Anarchy on a different digi channel. Great stuff!!!…. hot babes followed by bikie wars…what could be better?

    Are ch9 planning a series of Underbelly:Renovation?

  8. @Andrew
    I agree. I only mentioned that their few recent nigthly wins brought back memories of a time when they were able to back up the claim that they were number one. Also gave me an excuse to highlight the silliness in the naming of channels…

  9. Nine’s finally hitting number one regularly now. Reminds me of the days when they were singing… “We’re still having fun and we’re still the one.”
    But these days Ten has Channel One (1), One-Zero (10) and One-One (11), and there’s also ABC1 and SBS ONE. SBS also have SBS TWO, not to be confused with 7TWO, ABC1 which appears on Channel Two, or ABC2. ABC2’s pre-school programming appears under the title “ABC 4 Kids”, but it isn’t ABC’s 4th channel, ABC News 24. Meanwhile ABC also have ABC3, the channel for kids, which doesn’t have “ABC 4 Kids”. Speaking of 3, Seven’s 7Mate appears on Channel 73.
    Where does all this leave The Nine Network? In first apparently.

  10. Why doesn;t Masterchef Australia copy the UK format, not as long winded and a hell of lot more interesting and less grandstanding.

    By the way hope Kate wins, she is beautiful and intelligent

  11. Interesting Twitter update from MolkTalksTV about Ch10. Looks like they are about to launch Renovators earlier than expected. Can anyone smell that desperation?

  12. A shame about Unbelievable, which is actually pretty good and funny at times. But a good wake up call for ABC and Chris Lilley about Angry Boys which is total trash

  13. I likes Top Design but I wasn’t in the mood to start another reno show after 1hr of the block! Really bad timing for me and would I watch 2 hrs next week of shows of similar nature probably not sadly. Cooking can get away with on some levels but I don’t feel this can……looking forward to reading your review David

  14. Angry boys ratings reflect the fact that people wont tune in unless the quality is good. Sadly Angry boys is nowhere near as clever or funny as the two prior series and the ratings reflect this. Its sad for Lilley that this is the case but was always going to be hard to top SHH and WCBH. Offspring on the other hand goes from strength to strength and deserves stronger ratings than its getting but I believe its killing it in the demos.

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