Channel Ten’s ninth season of The Biggest Loser pulls in 753,000 on debut

Miranda Ward

January 20, 2014 10:36

The debut of Channel Ten’s ninth season of The Biggest Loser which sees trainers Michelle Bridges, Shannon Ponton and Steve ‘The Commando’ Willis tackle the obesity problem of an entire town drew in 753,000 viewers, OzTam preliminary overnight metro ratings show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDF2sj1L9X0

Episode one of the series, which aired at 6.30pm was beaten by Channel Nine’s broadcast of the One Day Cricket, Australia v England which drew 1.434 million metro viewers for Australia’s run chase from 6.30pm, up from sessions one’s 1.178 million viewers when the match started at 2pm.

Last year the first episode of The Biggest Loser rated 814,000 on its opening night.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.

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1 COMMENTS

Mike 20 Jan 14

Hey! Let’s exploit and ridicule the morbidly obese, because they’re less sympathetic than hot young women.
And the not-hot-not-young women who usually complain about exploitation feel rather superior when they see these desperately overweight souls being humiliated.
It must be their fault, after all.
So it’s okay then.
Is it really?

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