HD Ratings: Bake Off the Right Recipe

The Great Kiwi Bake Off continues to hit the sweet spot for TVNZ 1’s 25-54 audience, easily winning its Thursday night slot with a 3.2% average.

It didn’t fare as well with the other core commercial demographic, 18-49 year-olds (2.0%), but still out-rated Three’s Comedy Month special, The Comedy Mixtape With Pax Assadi.

Mixtape averaged 2.1% of 25-54s and 1.5% of 18-49s vs 2.7%/2.6% for TVNZ 2’s Ten 7 Aotearoa and 2.1%/2.0% for its lead-out Motorway Patrol.

TVNZ 2’s Embarrassing Bodies (2.4%/1.7%) and SEAL Team (0.9%/0.6%) also topped Three’s Mean Mums (1.0%/0.6%), The Stand Up Sketch Show (0.3%/0.1%) and Get the Name Right (0.4%/0.1%).

But all were beaten by TVNZ 1’s Hard Quiz (2.7%/2.1%) and Coronation Street (0.9%/0.6%) — although the latter couldn’t match Bravo’s A&E After Dark in the 18-49 demo.

Prime’s The Black Ferns: Wahine Toa could muster only 0.2% of each key demo and lead-out Bull 0.1%/0.0%.

Duke’s Outback Car Hunters revved up 1.8%/1.6% and Secrets of the Supercars 0.8%/0.6%.

TVNZ 1 won the night with 31+ shares of the core demos. TVNZ 2 narrowly led Three in the 18-49 race but trailed in the 25-54 stakes.

Note: These overnight ratings exclude viewership of the networks’ +1 SD channels.