Tuesday night on Old Mornington Road delivered exactly what The Block always delivers: solid ratings, a bit of scandal, and a comment section that would make Marty Fox blush. Here’s what the Blockheads were actually saying online today, and what the mastheads bothered writing down.
1 in 10 of the AI inserts are mildly funny, the rest is crap.
u/shplaxg, r/TheBlock
What Blockheads Are Saying
The liveliest thread on r/TheBlock today wasn’t about a room reveal at all, it was another round of the season’s running fight over AI. Forty-five comments in, the discourse split cleanly down the middle: one camp calling the AI jingles and graphics an insult to twenty-two years of good telly, the other camp shrugging and asking why anyone’s still surprised. One commenter tried to make peace with the whole thing, noting that 1 in 10 of the AI inserts are mildly funny, the rest is crap, which is either a devastating review or the kindest one the segment’s had all week. Elsewhere in the thread, someone pinned the blame on Channel Nine chasing a demographic that still forwards chain emails, which felt a little harsh, and a little accurate.
What the Mastheads Ran Today
B&T confirmed what the ratings always confirm: The Block was Tuesday’s biggest non-news program, pulling a Total TV National Reach of 1,873,000 and a National Average Audience of 1,066,000, comfortably ahead of A Current Affair and Seven’s Home and Away. Not bad for a season the internet insists is the worst one yet. Nothing else masthead-side broke today beyond the ratings wrap, the AI grumbling is still mostly a Reddit sport for now, though don’t be shocked if one of the weeklies turns it into a proper “fans revolt” story by the weekend.
That’s the buzz for today. Same time tomorrow, assuming the comment section hasn’t combusted entirely.
