Masterchef dominates House Rules and Reno Rumble and hands Ten rare audience share win

Channel Ten’s Masterchef dominated its reality rivals on its return last night and handed the channel a rare audience share win for the night, with Seven’s House Rules and Nine’s new show Reno Rumble both failing to crack the million mark despite being boosted by simulcasts on their multichannels.

The return of Ten’s cooking show was up 50 per cent on last year’s series debut getting 1.231m viewers from 7.30pm, compared to 874,000 last year when it was up against The Voice and House Rules on Seven and Nine.

Seven will be most disappointed after roadblocking House Rules across all its channels at 7.30pm, but could only muster 791,000 viewers, while Nine’s new renovation show Reno Rumble got 873,000 viewers despite also being simulcast on multichannel Gem.

This time last year Nine debuted its third series of The Voice to 2.155m viewers on a Sunday night, while House Rules managed 1.183m for its first ever outing last year, but lifted throughout the series as The Voice weakened.Love Child returned after Reno Rumble on Nine at 8.40pm managed 920,000 viewers making it the fifth most-watched show of the evening. The show debuted to 1.354m last year for its first season.