Television’s toughest building challenge headed back to the suburbs of Melbourne for Season 19's launch episode yesterday. ​

​Captivating a Total TV average audience of 1.13M viewers (Metro: 722K, Regional: 290K, BVOD: 118K) The Block juggernaut is well and truly back. ​

​Last night, Channel 9 took out the No.1 program across all key demos and was No.1 in its timeslot for Total People across the 5 City Metro, East Coast and in Sydney and Brisbane. ​

​More blockheads than ever before are live streaming their favourite renovation program via 9Now, with a whopping 12.3 million total Live + VOD minutes viewed – growth of +17% year-on-year.