Nine’s Open House ties with Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
Alisa and Lysandra
Nine’s decision to not air The Block: Triple Threat last night in favour of the first episode of Open House, a spinoff of The Block, saw the channel’s audience share plummet as Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here tie with Nine’s programming in the 7.30pm timeslot for the first time.
Open House, which last night saw The Block former contestants Alisa and Lysandra given a $10,000 budget and a short time-frame to renovate a dark brick 1970s house, was watched by 620,000. This was down from The Block: Triple Threat’s audience of 852,000 last week when it was also simulcast on Gem.
Ten’s I’m A Celebrity, which was simulcast on One, delivered the network an audience of 620,000 metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight OzTam ratings. It was still down on last week’s audience of 698,000.
I watched open house. In it, Scott Cam travelled to one person’s house and scrapped some paint of a window, then did one brush stroke of paintwork. That’s all he did.
But he was trumpeted as a savior.
How does I’m a celebrity out rate Open House if they both got 620.000 ?
Hi Einstein,
Thanks for pointing that out – we’ve adjusted the story to clarify they tied.
Cheers,
Miranda – Mumbrella
Did they consider running it on the back of the block? (or prior to)
Nobody likes a ‘super-sub’ mid series – What was the first night of Triple Threat rated at? Is it a case of building a following?
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