HD Ratings: Chasers Unbeatable

Beat the Chasers bounced back from its disastrous season premiere to easily win its slot on Wednesday.

The game show averaged 4.3% of TVNZ 1’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and 3.3% of 18-49s — or roughly double the viewership of the previous week.

TVNZ 2’s MasterChef Australia averaged 3.4%/3.3% to finish second at 7.30, ahead of Three’s The Block NZ: Redemption (2.9%/2.1%).

MasterChef’s popularity helped Taskmaster NZ to win at 8.30 (2.9%/2.6%) while Three’s David Lomas Investigates (2.7%/1.6%) edged out TVNZ 1’s George Clarke’s Flipping Fast (2.1%/1.5%).

All three networks were keenly competitive at 9.30, when TVNZ 2’s Guessable (0.9%/0.8%) pipped TVNZ 1’s Coronation Street (0.7%/0.4%) and Three’s Million Dollar Murders (0.8%/0.5%) — but still trailed Bravo’s 911: Crisis Center (1.2%/1.0%).

Earlier, 1 News averaged twice as many 25-54 and 18-49 viewers as Newshub Live and Seven Sharp easily led The Project at 7.00.

TVNZ 1 won the night’s biggest key demo shares while TVNZ 2 was second in the 18-49 race and Three was the 25-54 runner-up.

On Thursday, The Great Kiwi Bake Off (3.4%/2.2%) won the 25-54 demo but lost the 18-49 vote to MasterChef (2.9%/2.3%).

Three’s The Great Kiwi Comedy Debate averaged 1.9%/1.2%, which improved on the previous specials that aired in the slot, while Mean Mums averaged 1.0%/0.9%.

Airing a second consecutive episode of MasterChef paid off for TVNZ 2, as it beat the competition in both key demos and helped the network to win the night’s second-biggest core demo shares after TVNZ 1.

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