The Challenge bumped after low viewership numbers

The Australia edition of The Challenge, titled The Challenge: War of the Worlds, has been bumped to a later time slot after reporting extremely low ratings.

The Challenge is a hugely popular reality show that originated in the UK and has spawned 37 seasons. It regularly features reality stars from both the UK and the US and sees the cast members compete against each other in gruelling and physical challenges.

The Australian version of the show has a slightly different format from the original version. The series, titled The Challenge: War of the Worlds, will see four separate countries – Australia, the UK, the US and Argentina – run their own versions of the show, which is known as The Challenge (part one). The winners from the local series will compete against the other countries in The Challenge (part two) to determine the winner.

Although the cast of The Challenge: War of the Worlds reads like a who’s who in Australian reality TV, the ratings for the show have been dismal. It hit a season-low of just 136,000 city metro viewers on Tuesday night, down 60,000 viewers from the premiere last week.

The Challenge was beaten by the new reality show My Mum Your Dad, which received 396,000 viewers and by a repeat episode of Travel Guides which racked up 300,000 viewers.

Due to the ratings, The Challenge will now air at 8:30 pm on Mondays and Tuesdays, instead of its previous 7:30 pm time slot, as per TV Blackboard.

So far, Cyrell Paule, Johnny Estoe, David Subritzky, Jessica Brody, Jack Vidgen, Audrey Kanongara, Suzan Mutesi and Billy Dib have all been eliminated from the reality show. Brittany Hockley, Brooke Blurton, Ciarran Stott , Konrad Bien-Stephen, Megan Marx, Kiki Morris, Brooke Jowett, Ryan Gallagher, Emily Seebohm, Marley Biyendolo, Conor Curran, Grant Crapp, Troy Cullen and Sugar Neekz Johnson all currently remain in the running to win The Challenge Australia.