My Kitchen Rules tops ratings on return as I’m a Celebrity beats Australia’s Got Talent

Channel Seven’s ratings juggernaut My Kitchen Rules returned for its seventh series last night with an audience of 1.576m, an almost identical launch audience to last year’s series. 

Its return overshadowed Shane Warne’s entry into Channel Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here camp, which went from 1.3m viewers on Sunday’s launch to 927,000 last night. It is well up on last year’s second show which slipped to 755,000 viewers.

However it trounced the return of Australia’s Got Talent on Nine, which could only manage 785,000 in the 7.30pm timeslot against its reality rivals, its lowest debut ever and well down on the 1.081m it managed on its debut on Nine in 2014.