When Love Comes to Town and grabs The Voice's coattails

By AdNews | 21 May 2014
 
When Love Comes to Town

The launch of Nine's new dating show When Love Comes To Town made the the top 10 free-to-air programs last night, with 868,000 viewers.

The reality romance show, which sees 12 single city girls travel to remote parts of Australia to meet eligible country bachelors in a similar format to 2012 series The Farmer Wants a Wife, had the benefit of airing immediately after The Voice on Nine.

The Voice once again topped the ratings chart, with 1.714 million viewers across Australia's five metro areas tuning in to see the final night of blind auditions, and helping Nine to take the biggest audience share, with 32.8%. Seven won 28.8%, Ten took 17.9% and the ABC won 15.5%.

Seven's House Rules also made the top 10, according to preliminary overnight ratings figures from OzTam, with an audience of 1.146 million.

MasterChef Australia's Mega Week continued on Ten, with the show last night finishing in 13th position, with 780,000 viewers tuning in to see the 'Immunity Challenge' with Ollie Gould – up from Monday night's audience of 748,000.

Seven's Resurrection also sneaked into the top 10 yesterday, winning 875,000 viewers, and Home and Away took eighth most-watched program with an audience of 979,000.

News and current affairs programs completed the top 10, with Seven News second with an audience of 1.375 million, Nine News was third with 1.197 million, Seven's Today Tonight was fourth with 1.172 million, Nine News at 6.30 was fifth with 1.163 million, and Nine's A Current Affair was seventh with 1.097 million.

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