The Bachelor tops The Hotplate but Seven secures biggest audience share for the night

The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood

The 2015 Bachelorettes with Sam Wood

The Bachelor overhauled The Hotplate last night recording its strongest audience yet for the current season and claiming the title of most watched entertainment show for Wednesday.

Ten’s dating show had 992,000 viewers, up from 805,000 last Wednesday and easily won across all the demographics, while Nine’s cooking show slipped back to 764,000 viewers in the 7.30 timeslot after pulling an audience of 914,000 last week and was fourth in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos.

Seven ran new episodes of Border Security and The Force at 7.30pm and 8pm, getting 747,000 viewers and 710,000 respectively, and managed to gain an audience share win for the second night running with 18.3 per cent, to Nine’s 18 per cent and Ten’s 14.6 per cent.

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