Nine dominates Wednesday night TV despite strong performance from The Bachelor and ABC

August 24, 2017 10:06

Despite strong competition from Seven’s news offerings, ABC’s entertainment line-up and The Bachelor in the key advertising demographics, Nine won Wednesday night thanks to The Block, Doctor Doctor and its news and current affairs programs.

Nine held off competition from the other networks

The most-watched program was once again The Block, which had an average metro audience of 1.028m according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings. The Bachelor was the second-most-watched entertainment show of the night, in seventh place overall with 749,000 viewers.

A repeat of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell was in ninth for the night thanks to an audience of 723,000 and Utopia rounded out the top 10 with 702,000.

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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly was previously the editor of Mumbrella from 2016 to August 2020.

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