Nine is parcelling out The Block to just one season this year, so we still have aaaaages to wait to see the next crop of amateur renovators / tradies with hearts of gold / ex-glamour models destroy a heritage apartment building.
In the meantime, they’ve been trying to convince the reality TV-loving public that Reno Rumble – which features some of the same personnel, and the same very basic premise – is just as good, but nobody’s quite been buying it.
If The Block is a ninja turtle, then TBH, this bad boy is Reno Rumble:
The ratings for Rumble have been on the slide for some time – while season one debuted to 875,000 viewers, season two’s first episode, airing Monday of last, week managed just 395,000.
That number slipped in subsequent days, with a slight uptick to 440,000 on Sunday night, but that wasn’t enough, and the network today announced that the show will be moved from its prime timeslot, to 8.50pm Monday and 8.40pm Tuesday.
The upside of this is that the Monday and Tuesday slots vacated by Rumble will be taken by the magnificent clusterfuck that is Married At First Sight, whose first season routinely pulled in close to 1.2 million viewers.
Our faces right now (artist’s impression)
In case you missed it, a trailer for the new season of Married At First Sight recently dropped, so you can go ahead and familiarise yourself with the people who willingly signed up for that before it kicks off.
Source: News Corp.
