Masterchef Thursday night audience nearly halves as Nine shows edited Top Gear special

Ten saw its audience for Masterchef drop by nearly half from last Thursday, falling from 1.001m to 578,000 last night, it’s lowest rating of the series so far this year.

The episode titled ‘Class of 2014’ focused on the participants of the competition this year and their life stories, was 14th in all programs and seventh in Ten’s target demographic of people 25-54, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

In the consolidated ratings Masterchef had gained 88,000 viewers on last week taking its metro rating up from 1.001m to 1.089m over the last seven days.

Masterchef lost out to the second episode of Top Gear’s Burma Special on Nine in Sydney and Brisbane, which got 400,000 viewers for an edited version of the episode that omitted Jeremy Clarkson’s “slope” comment which is being investigated by UK communications regulator Ofcom after it aired in the UK in March. Afterwards 276,000 tuned in for The Footy Show in those two cities.