House Rules is down 50,000 to 2.39m nationally, while climbing nearly 6% on the network shares.The problem for Nine is The Big Bang Theory which collapsed by 850,000 to 1.145m.
On Tuesday night, it led Masterchef out by 800,000; on Wednesday it was led out by 16,000.
Offspring dropped from 828,000 to 805,000 in the five cities, or 1.095m to 1.048m around Australia, so the drop is higher in the regions.