First Sunday airing of My Kitchen Rules hurts Ten’s top shows
It was another dreary Sunday for Ten, with the first Sunday airing of Seven’s My Kitchen Rules putting a sizeable dent in the ratings of Ten’s top shows.
Although Ten’s New Girl and Modern Family both made the top five in the 16-39 demographics, an hour-long episode of MKR in their time-slot hastened the decline of new comedy New Girl, which was down from 1.075m viewers last week to 783,000, according to preliminary reports from OzTam.
Modern Family fell from 1.079m last week to 872,000 last night.
Nine’s telemovie, The Great Mint Swindle at 8:30pm, about a heist of the Perth Mint in the 80s, rated 1.073m and took viewers away from Ten’s spy thriller Homeland, down from 901,000 to 810,000. A second episode of Homeland drew 702,000. Seven’s Bones won the 8:30pm timeslot however with 1.115m.
I could do without the Sunday episode of MKR; the series is at least 30% advertising and seems to have less and less to do with cooking and more to do with what passes for “personality”. At least it’s immeasurably improved by the demise of the boring academics from Gold Coast – for all their boasting, they just couldn’t cook – imagine not even being able to rustle up mashed potato! The fact remains, however, only two of the contestants, the two Italian guys, have genuine all-embracing cooking skills. Fortunately, ABC offers some solace with the splendid Great Expectations in the same slot. But, only one episode to go! The very fact that you can churn out several months of MKR, five nights a week, is indicative of the general worthlessness of the program.
I could listen to Manu talk 24/7. I am sure that is why people tune in lol!
Tom when will the general public wake up to this fact…I personally do not understand why people watch this crap..Id rather watch paint dry
Sean, pity you didn’t but the TV with the “Off” button option. Would have saved your whingeing on here.
I don’t think Tom or Sean were “whingeing”. I think they were trying to make constructive criticism about a total crap show.
They took off the customs show to show another night of MKR…give us a break and bring back the customs and police show on Sunday night. I watched ABC and SBS, sick of that MKR…..They should call it cook under stress show.
JG thanks for the contructive critism but i do and use that option a lot .I was offering only a opinion on the quality of that program and generally about the amount of adds..and hey i do like to whinge especially about the quality of some TV shows and intellingence of the public who watch them ! Plus channel 7 have a advertising issue that we should all be complaining about and that is the amount of adds that are on i have counted up to15 adds and promos in there breaks consistently i dunno but it drives my insane.
It’s a reality TV show, of course there’s going to be drama and tension, with real cooking the secondary agenda. If I want to watch a proper cooking show I’d go somewhere else – there are lots of them on TV. I watch MKR mainly because I like to see the drama unfold. Yes, I’m pathetic and freely admit it, but not more so than people who actually waste their time watching a show they hate. People who watch MKR and expect anything different are just thick.
Did no one else notice that both Sunday Night and 60 Minutes has exactly the same two stories on last night?
Coincidence?
And, both Today Tonigh and ACA ran two very similar stories tonight. What is going on?
Aside from my poor grammar and spelling, that is…
Well I didn’t watch My Kitchen Rules. I was upset they took off Border Security and The Force to screen this crap. I am over MKR and Masterchef. They are inane product placement orgies and are promoting obesity.