Nine’s When Love Comes to Town debuts to 868,000 as Bogan Hunters tops digital shows

The launch of Nine’s new reality TV series When Love Comes to Town, a take on the A Farmer Wants a Wife type reality love show, saw 868,000 metro viewers tune in at 9pm, after The Voice saw 1.714m watch the last night of blind auditions.

Nine won the night off the back of the two reality shows and an audience of over 1 million for its news hour, the network had a share of 25.6 per cent with closest rival Seven sitting on a share of 20.3 per cent.

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Seven’s new show Bogan Hunters drew the biggest audience of the night on digital channels grabbing 393,000 viewers on 7Mate at 9.30pm. The network’s most watched show of the evening was the first half hour of its news at 6pm, with an audience of 1.375m metro viewers tuning in, dropping away to 1.172m for the second half hour.