House Rules out-rates reality rivals as The Voice posts lowest audience to date

Seven’s House Rules out-rated both Nine’s The Voice and Ten’s Masterchef at 7:30pm last night, pulling in 990,000 metro viewer, with no single non-news program breaking the 1m viewer mark.

House Rules beat The Voice, which posted its lowest audience to date as live episodes began with a metro audience of 984,000 while Masterchef was watched by 918,000.

Masterchef was the most-watched show across 16-39 and 18-49 year old viewer demos while Seven News was the popular choice amongst viewers aged 25-54.

Later in the evening, Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? was watched by 676,000 at 8:40pm as Seven’s Criminal Minds, airing at 9:15pm, grabbed 488,000 and Nine’s Adele – Live in London, kicking off at 9:30pm, drew a metro audience of 570,000.

Nine won the night with a metro audience of 22.1%, ahead of Seven’s share of 20.7%, while Ten claimed third place with a share of 14.6%. The ABC settled for a share of 13.6%.

On the news front, Seven News pulled in 1.367m at 6:00pm, slipping to 1.159m at 6:30pm. Nine News at 6:00pm was watched by 1.235m, sliding to 1.114m from 6:30pm.

In breakfast TV, Nine’s Today pulled in 295,000, out-rating Seven’s Sunrise which was watched by 275,000.