The Masked Singer is back doing the numbers 10 management were hoping for and putting its rivals on notice.
The oddball talent show pulled 729,000 viewers last night according to OzTAM metro numbers, but rose to an impressive 938,000 for the reveal (which turned out to be Lucy Durack of stage show Wicked fame).
All this wasn’t great news for The Block, which had to settle for 744,000.
But it was worse news for the second outing of Plate Of Origin. It struggled to a measly 510,000 and would have alarm bells starting to ring over at Seven HQ.
Nine won the night with 27.1 per cent of all of last night’s eyeballs (all channels). Seven did a neat 25 per cent, 10 pulled 21.7 per cent, the ABC had 17.7 per cent and SBS managed 8.7 per cent.
In the battle of the news bulletins, Seven’s 6pm outing pulled 1.206 million, Nine did 1.034 million, the ABC’s 7pm news enjoyed 791,000 and 10 News First had 343,000.
ACA did 781,000 for Nine, 7.30 did 655,000 for the ABC and 10’s The Project mustered 536,000.
Over at Seven, The Chase had 649,000 and Home And Away pulled 617,000.
Nine’s Hot Seat had 535,000.
Other standouts for the ABC were Australian Story (656,000), Four Corners (478,000) and Media Watch (471,000).