{"id":557095,"date":"2026-08-03T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:47:12","slug":"the-block-the-voice-neck-and-neck-in-season-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557095\/","title":{"rendered":"The Block, The Voice neck and neck in season returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNot much split the season returns of two big reality shows on Sunday. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>High profile reality shows returned to screens last night and it was effectively a tie between them. Both will seize it as a success.<\/p>\n<p>With rounding, The Block drew 1.11m viewers for Nine, neck and neck with 1.10m for The Voice on Seven.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last year, The Block return is down (1.3m) while The Voice is up (984,000).<\/p>\n<p>MasterChef Australia\u2018s episode, which paused the competiton, was 605,000 then Race Around the World at 459,000 from 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Later a Farmer Wants a Wife Reunion was high at 988,000 outranking 60 Minutes (592,000), Treasure &amp; Dirt (269,000) and Watson (164,000).<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Games was 391,000 as a late session, then 339,000 \/ 337,000 elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Seven News was #1 at 1.5m.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News pulled 1.27m with a late edition at 334,000.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News drew 782,000 then Compass (236,000) and Believe Me (150,000).<\/p>\n<p>10 News was 233,000 then 10 News+ (147,000), and FBI (73,000).<\/p>\n<p>On SBS it was SBS World News (221,000 \/ 136,000), Alexander The Great: Legendary Conqueror (174,000), Las Vegas And The American Dream (120,000), Castle Secrets (63,000).<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2026\/08\/sunday-2-august-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday 2 August 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not much split the season returns of two big reality shows on Sunday. High profile reality shows returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-557095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}