My Kitchen Rules crushes I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and The Block Triple Threat in first showdown

MY Kitchen Rules has given the competition a massive reality check smashing Channel 10s new I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! in the ratings.

However it didn’t end there with the first airing of Seven’s cooking show also crushing Nine’s The Block Triple Threat as it soared to nearly 1.6 million viewers across Australia’s five capital cities.

My Kitchen Rules averaged a whopping 1.596 million viewers — pretty much double the ratings of its commercial reality rivals.

Last night’s show featured Mt Isa mums Jac and Shaz hosting their first instant restaurant.

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Cooking up a storm ... Jac and Shaz hard at work in home restaurant, in Mount Isa Source: Channel 7

The Block Triple Threat crumbled with 802,000 viewers. Nine’s renovation show is down nearly 25 per cent compared to last year’s The Block: Fans v Faves.

Meanwhile I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! took a huge tumble from its Sunday night premiere.

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Last night’s episode languished on 755,000 viewers — a drop of more than 400,000 from Sunday’s 1.199 million where it was up against the Australian Open Tennis — Men’s Final and One Day International cricket.

Ten’s reality show came fourth in its timeslot — also beaten by the ABC’s 7.30 (826,000) and Australian Story (780,000).

Hard work ... Laura Dundovic and Andrew Daddo slog it out on the set of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Picture: Channel 10 Source: Channel 10

But while I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here may have stumbled in the overnight ratings, on social media it was another story entirely.

The antics in the jungle generated more social media activity than either of its reality rivals. Holding 30 per cent of the Twitter TV audience (compared to My Kitchen Rules’ 22 per cent), I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here was the number one non-sport program on the Neilson TV Twitter ratings.

And with over 16,000 tweets, the show even managed to outstrip the Twitter output from the finale of Ten’s last big reality hit, The Bachelor.

With catch-up figures yet to be added into the mix, TV fans will be keenly watching the continued battle for reality ratings supremacy play out in forthcoming weeks.

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