Bieber fever helps Australia’s Got Talent eclipse 1m

Justin Bieber’s appearance on Australia’s Got Talent helped the song contest stage something of a recovery last night, picking up ratings from 918,000 last week to more than 1m.

Running from 7.30pm until 9.15pm on Seven and rating with 1.1m, the show wiped the floor with Nine’s US version of The Voice, which slid again, from 584,000 to 529,000 total viewers.

But it could not beat MasterChef on Ten, on at 7pm, which pulled in 1.426m.

The cooking show won in every advertising demographic, with Australia’s Got Talent coming second in 18-49, Seven’s Home & Away second in 16-39 and Mrs Brown’s Boys, also on Seven, runner-up in 25-54.