The Block edges out X Factor but audiences for both show sharp fall from last year

Jamie failed again to pull in an audience for Ten

Nine’s The Block: Glasshouse won the 7.30pm ratings battle last night after pulling in almost 1.13 million viewers, slightly up on the previous night’s audience of 1.112m.

It edged out Seven’s X Factor where 1.08m watched the contestants head overseas for the last attempt to make it through to the live shows. It too was an improvement on Monday’s outing which attracted 1.05m metro viewers.

But Ten’s Save with Jamie continued to disappoint as only 440,000 viewers tuned in to see the British chef conjure up something from the leftovers, 1,000 fewer than its debut last week. It was beaten into fifth place in the 7.30 time slot as SBS’s Who Do You Think You Are pulled in 467,000 while ABC News drew 634,000 and Foreign Correspondent pulled 556,000.