My Kitchen Rules wins 1.67m for Seven as Nine’s The Block averages 1.14m

In the first major television night of the year Seven won 1.671m viewers for the first episode of My Kitchen Rules as Nine’s first outing of The Block averaged 1.143m according to OzTam.

The fifth series launched with a new cast of home cooks who are judged on meals they cook for their competitors, and judges Manu Feildel and Pete Evans, opened to 1.384m on January 29 last year.

Meanwhile The Block, now in its ninth season, brought back previous contestants for a Fans v Faves series, fell to seventh for the night as it premiered in the later 7.30pm timeslot against My Kitchen Rules.