The Bachelor enjoys biggest launch as Restaurant Revolution drops 160,000 viewers
The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood
Last year’s controversial ending appears to have spurred interest in The Bachelor which enjoyed its biggest debut audience to date, and beat its reality rivals on Seven and Nine.
The heavily-promoted new series topped all advertiser demographics and grabbed 846,000 metro viewers to see star Sam Wood meet his potential new beaus. Last year the show drew 692,000 on debut, which was similar to its first season launch in 2013 when 669,000 tuned in.
It beat both Seven and Nine’s new reality cooking franchises Restaurant Revolution and The Hotplate in the 7.30pm timeslot. Nine’s The Hotplate saw its audience sink marginally on its Tuesday night debut to 713,000, while Restaurant Revolution faded badly with just 515,000 viewers, according to OzTam overnight metro ratings.
RIP Restaurant Revolution
We are all cooked out!
Surely there is a typo there in saying it beat It beat both Seven and Ten’s new reality cooking franchise, you really mean Seven and Nine.
Hi Tim,
You are completely right – changed now.
Cheers, Alex – editor, Mumbrella
Could we combine a cooking, dating and renovation show? Now that would be a winner.
what does it say about reinventing and new shows when the old format always works- Cricket has been beating all comers for the past how many years. nine should put it on nine rather than GEM