Ten's MasterChef Australia tipped the one million viewer mark for the first time this series last night, with an audience of 1.001 million tuning in to see Kylie Kwong appear.
It put the cookery program as the fifth most-watched free-to-air show and helped Ten towards an overall audience share of 22.6% – the first time it has exceeded 20% in weeks.
Last night was the fourth episode of MasterChef Australia's sixth series, and the first elimination show, in which celebrity chef and guest mentor Kylie Kwong set the contestants the elimination challenge.
With Nine's The Voice and Seven's House Rules off-air until Sunday, news and current affairs programs dominated the top end of the most-watched shows.
But ABC1's Call the Midwife made an appearance in the top 10, in ninth spot with 802,000 viewers across Australia's five metro areas, according to preliminary overnight ratings figures from OzTam.
And Seven's Home and Away made its usual top 10 appearance, last night in seventh place with an audience of 909,000.
Nine News was the highest-ranking program, with 1.154 million viewers, followed by Seven News with an audience of 1.102 million.
Nine won the biggest audience share, taking 26.4%, followed by Seven with 25.9%.
Completing the top 10 was Nine News at 6.30, in third with 1.077 million viewers, Seven's Today Tonight, fourth with 1.019 million, Nine's A Current Affair, sixth with 909,000, ABC News, eighth with 848,000, and ABC1's 7.30, 10th with 762,000.
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