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It was a bad night for soon to be former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and an even worse one for Channel Ten.

With the nation’s attention being held to ransom by the Coalition Government’s leadership debacle, one of the station’s flagship reality programs suffered a massive hit.

The much hyped and anticipated season of the Bachelor, featuring the most ockered up version of the Nick ‘The Honey Badger’ Cummins, had pulled huge numbers last week averaging 1.25 million viewers on its launch night.

However, the numbers took a big whack last night as the nation’s viewers decided more irrational conflict and petty drama could be found on the nation’s news channels, with ABC News24 drawing large numbers.

Channel Ten’s Head of Programming Hugh Burke told The Advocate that if things keep going the way they are, they are just going to pull tonight’s episode.

“It will be pointless putting on the air. No one will be watching. We will just save it till next week when all these pollies go on holiday.”

Local Bachelor fan Alison Little told The Advocate that she knew the news channels were the place to be for gossiping, blowups and mindless drama.

“Look I love watching the Bachie in order to see wanna-be-famous Insta models with lip filler tee off on each other over the most nonsensical things, but I knew it wouldn’t compare to what’s going on down in the bush capital,” she explained.

“It’s so good. Embarrassing for us as a country but still so good. It’s like they don’t even care about running the country anymore, they just want to have tiffs about whose side they are on.”

“You know what they should do? They should get Keira down there! That would really spice things up,” Little laughed.