Seven’s Bringing Sexy Back boosts audience on second outing, Nine wins night with The Block

Seven’s episode of self-improvement makeover show Bringing Sexy Back fronted by Sunrise host Samantha Arymtage boosted its audience in its second outing, attracting 734,000 at 7.30pm compared to last week’s audience of 654,000.

It wasn’t enough to beat Nine’s The Block Glasshouse which won the night with an audience of 1.192m, according to the OzTam overnight metro ratings. The Block was the most watched show across all demographics.

With the help of Nine News winning the news battleground, Nine won the night with an audience share of 21.2 per cent. Nine News at 6pm drew an audience of 1.36m, with the second half maintaining an audience of 1.09m. Seven News managed to attract 10.61m in its first half hour, with 1.035m sticking around for the second half or Today Tonight.

Home and Away was Seven’s most popular entertainment show of the night, with an audience of 922,000. Winners & Losers, which aired at 8.45pm after Bringing Sexy Back, had an audience of 782,000 and helped Seven to a share of 19.5 per cent. Last week’s episode of Winners & Losers was watched by an extra 177,000 viewers, taking its total audience to 902,000.