Glenn Dyer's TV ratings: MasterChef cooks up another flop

Ten's MasterChef is staggering -- 879,000 national/652,000 metro/227,000 regional viewers -- the third weak night in a row. This one is really off the viewers' radar.

Nine’s night, easily, thanks to big wins on the east coast — while Seven again won Adelaide and Perth. The Voice led the way (2.404 million nationally/1.747 million metro/ 657,000 regionally), as did Nine News. Seven’s House Rules is hanging tough. Nine had a narrower win in the regions.

House Rules (2.146 million nationally/1.365 million metro/781,000 regional) again beat The Block (2.109 million nationally/1.466 million metro/643,000 regionally) nationally — thanks to its dominance in regional markets. In fact House Rules beat The Voice win the regions, 781,000 to 657,000. That figure for House Rules recalls the figures My Kitchen Rules was getting in the regions earlier this year.

Ten’s MasterChef is staggering — 879,000 national/652,000 metro/227,000 regional viewers — the third weak night in a row. This one is really off the viewers’ radar. The Truth Is? on Ten at 8.30pm — 565,000 national/427,000 metro/138,000 regional viewers. The truth is Foreign Correspondent, when the dunderheads at ABC News and Current Affairs and ABC1 allow it to be shown to its owner/viewers, which does this sort of story far better and with more experienced correspondents and story telling.

Ten boasted this morning about how its 25 to 54 audience last night was up 19% last night compared to its share of viewing for the year to date and 16% for the network as a whole. It didn’t mention how MasterChef‘s audience is fading badly (of course, the network report is a document of spin de jour).

Tonight: Watch Today Tonight on Seven, as a public service. It needs your help as last night it was flogged by A Current Affair by well over 400,000 viewers (a winning margin in metro markets). The losses on the east coast were embarrassing — 186,000 in Sydney, a whopping 253,000 in Melbourne and 115,000 in Brisbane. The change of host to Helen Kapalos has failed on those figures. Seven News was easily beaten by Nine News as well in the metros — 168,000 in Sydney, 103,000 in Sydney and 36,000 in Brisbane. Because it is not run in all markets, ACA‘s national audience last night of 1.724 million was around 200,000 or more short of what it should have received. It should have really beaten TT by more than half a million viewers nationally.

Network channel share:

Nine (36.2%)
Seven (28.6%)
ABC (16.4%)
Ten (15.0%)
SBS (3.8%)

Network main channels:

Nine (29.5%)
Seven (21.8%)
ABC 1 (12.7%)
Ten (10.1%)
SBS ONE (3.2%)

Top 5 digital channels:

GO (4.0%)
7TWO (3.9%)
7mate (2.9%)
Gem (2.7%)
Eleven (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

The Voice (Nine) – 2.404 million
Nine News — 2.337 million
Seven News – 2.217 million
House Rules (Seven) — 2.146 million
The Block (Nine)– 2.109 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.724 million
Home and Away (Seven) — 1.562 million
Revenge (Seven) — 1.562 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.400 million
ABC1 News (7pm) — 1.396 million

Top metro programs:

The Voice (Nine) — 1.747 million
Nine News — 1.610 million
A Current Affair (Nine) — 1.489 million
Seven News — 1.476 million
The Block (Nine) — 1.466 million
House Rules (Seven) — 1.365 million
Today Tonight (Seven) — 1.050 million

Losers: Ten, with MasterChef (see above), The Truth Is? and the biggest of them all — The Americans at 9.30pm only getting national/241,000 metro/ regional). That is terminal.Metro news and current affairs: