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Married at First Sight ends in ratings bliss

Ratings: Love is still in the ratings air as Nine reality show hits a season high, while Julia Morris lifts the numbers at SBS.

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Viewers’ fascination with romance continued last night as Married at First Sight drew its best figures of the season.

The show drew 1.08m viewers, dominating its timeslot, topping the demos and wrapping as the top entertainment show of the night. It thumped 800 Words which fell again to 618,000, trapped by both a soft lead-in and heavy competition.

Only Seven News stopped Nine’s wins from 6pm with ACA also over the magic million and The Block winning its timeslot.

Australian Survivor delivered another delicious Tribal Council with the exit of self-appointed ‘puppeteer’ Andrew to the tune of 690,000, second in its slot. That was up on Monday’s outing but lower than a week ago.

Julia Morris in Who Do You Think You Are? pulled in a cool 400,000 for SBS which will likely top its week.

Nine network won Tuesday with 32.0% then Seven 26.3%, TEN 19.3%, ABC 15.2% and SBS 7.2%.

Married at First Sight was best for Nine with 1.08m viewers then Nine News (1.07m/ 1.05m), A Current Affair (1.07m), The Block (948,000), Hot Seat (509,000) and King’s Cross ER (463,000).

Seven News was #1 with 1.18m / 1.13m for Seven then Home and Away (751,000), The Chase (675,000 / 462,000), Zumbo’s Just Desserts (646,000), 800 Words (618,000). Movie: The Break Up averaged 181,000.

Australian Survivor was 690,000 for TEN. The Project drew 611,000 / 430,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 477,000, NCIS was 330,000 and NCIS: LA was 274,000.

ABC News (763,000) led for ABC followed by 7:30 (649,000), Catalyst (556,000), City in the Sky (472,000) and Foreign Correspondent (339,0000).

Who Do You Think You Are? was high for SBS at 400,000 then Insight (249,000), SBS World News (149,000) and Dateline (127,000).

7mate’s Highway Patrol was again best on multichannels with 296,000.

The Morning Show: 152,000 / 106,000
Today Extra: 107,00 / 92,000
Studio 10: 82,000 / 53,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 13 September 2016

18 Responses

  1. Survivor does not have broader appeal as the show is over 15 Years old .The American version didn’t exactly set the ratings on fire after the first few seasons so how was a local version going to rate any better.

  2. I don’t mind.800 words as it’s got a little bit of a sea changy vibe to it and interesting visuals . But yes the erik Thompson voice over had me thinking is that you Dave Rafter

  3. Agree with other commenters on this story. MAFS is boring. they are not even married legally and they give up because of a very plausible reason. Which is that people need to date and maybe live together first before marrying. This marrying when u haven’t met the person before is ridiculous. It feeds into that stupid and rare notion that that u can fall in love at first sight and that u can therfore marry imidiatley after that. this show has succeeded in getting atention. Iam over these kinds of shows including Survivor its all the same.

  4. Why would you bother watching MAFS…they aren’t legally married to each other and it has just been confirmed all the couples have split up…..I do not get it !
    I agree with Den….I cannot understand why Survivor isn’t rating better.

    1. I am a big Survivor fan, but do undestand that it doesn’t always have broader appeal. Ch9 messed with the US version too much, pushing it out to 9.30 start from 8.30 on GO. So its not a mainstream show at the moment and may take a couple of series to build its audience if ch10 stick with it. The quality compares favourably with the US version, but the local one may need a few tweaks. Oh and yeah I am a big fan of Phoebe…..and also Brooke

  5. I think Channel 10 would be happy with the demos for Survivor. I hope too it’s renewed for 2017, because I’m enjoying it – good production values, Jonathan is a decent host, and the last few episodes have been enthralling.
    800 Words looks like a problem for Seven – my impression, albeit based on only one episode, is that it’s essentially “Packed to the Rafters” relocated to New Zealand…….Rebecca Gibney popping up in the series at some stage wouldn’t surprise me either

    1. I missed all the promos, and haven’t seen it yet. But am amazed that after a great start last year it is tracking as well with a poor lead in! I am still enjoying it and worry that it may get the chop now.
      Ch9 seem to be attempting to launch some new Aussie dramas. I wish they weren’t all going to be on at the same time and same part of the year.

  6. Reruns of Highway Patrol top the multichannels, yet Seven’s main channel doesn’t play out the remaining new episodes of the latest season it paused on before the Olympics!? With Seven having a few shows performing below par, you’d think they might bring on the next wave of shows.

  7. Watched ACA last night haven’t watched in quite awhile. What that poor girl went through in that shipping container!! I bawled my eyes out! ? Absolutely shocking. Some really messed up people out there! And his sentence 8 years could be out in 3!! Court system is a joke. ?

    1. I am a Survivor tragic so may be biased but I don’t know either. I love the US version and what is amazing is that after 10,000 series (give or take a few…) it still manages to be entertaining.

      I mean really, Survivor v MAFS and people actually choose to watch the latter…the mind boggles.

    2. I agree it’s great TV, but it doesn’t rate better for so many reasons.
      I think it’s biggest downfall is keeping the Sunday episode up against The Blocks highest rating night. With tribal council every episode you miss some pretty pivotal plot points if you miss just one episode. TEN should probably have conceded Sunday nights and kept it to a Mon-Tue outing. It also has to build from some pretty poor lead ins. When you look at other channels their 7.30 shows come off the back of 1+ million viewers, Survivor follows the project which does 680k on a good night.
      Some say it’s also a niche show which doesn’t appeal to the audience of say.. The Big Music Quiz.
      So there are so many reasons why it’s not rating better, but that’s not to say it’s not a slick production. I’ve been watching on and off and have enjoyed every bit I’ve seen. Especially the amount of power play and…

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