Celebrity Masterchef picks up

Tim Burrowes

October 15, 2009 1:32

Ten’s Celebrity Masterchef saw a slight improvement on Wednesday night, with an audience approaching 1.2m.

That compared to just under 1.1m last week and 1.4m for its debut. This mostly held through for Ten’s NCIS Los Angeles which rated 1.1m.

But Ten’s new hospital series Three Rivers bombed in the 9.30pm slot, rating less than 500,000 viewers.

Meanwhile Nine’s Money for Jam saw a dramatic drop in audience after its two episode break to make room for the Hey Hey Reunions. According to preliminary data from OzTam, last night’s episode rated just 858,000, compared to 1.1m before it took its break and around 2.2m for the Hey Hey specials over the last two Wednesdays.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Adam Paull 15 Oct 09

It’s pretty grim when the most watched show of the night has only 1.4m viewers across all capital cities. I’d love to see a graph of the last 20 years of net ratings of both entertainment and 6pm news bulletins – it would be very interesting (and, if you ran a network, alarming) reading me thinks…

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Chris Tan 15 Oct 09

Well it kind of makes sense, Hey Hey isnt there to take the Masterchef viewers

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DD 15 Oct 09

Well I certainly tuned in to Masterchef but that was just to see the hotness that is Eamon Sullivan! Shame he didn’t cook in his budgie smugglers – now there is an idea for a reality show!

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