Channel Nine dominated the ratings last night with The Block taking out top spot with it’s highest 2013 season audience at $13.65 million (metro). This was followed by Nine’s 60 Minutes and Nine News which also attracted over 1.5 million viewers.
The reality renovation show lured 1,653,000 metro viewers last night with its room reveal episode, according to preliminary overnight ratings from Oztam. This is the highest audience yet for the format, which has rated an average of 1.6 million four times since its debut in mid-May. Its series average so far is 1.3 million metro viewers.
60 Minutes ranked second with 1,557,000 metro viewers, while Nine News gathered an audience of 1,517,000. The network’s family drama House Husbands also garnered an audience of 1,028,000 million.
Seven’s top-rating show was Sunday Night with 1.2 million viewers. Highway Patrol and A Place to Call Home attracted 1.2 million and 1.1 million respectively.
The debut of Network Ten’s MasterChef: Italian Week anchored a solid 800,000 metro viewers – on par with its average audience so far this year. Elementary attracted an audience of 780,000, while a repeat of Modern Family had 598,000 viewers.
Across the main channels, Nine won the night with 25% of audience share, followed by Seven with 22.7%. Ten and SBS scored 12.5% and 3.5% respectively.
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