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Critics rebuke discontented audience members (9)

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I believe the answer is:

reviewers

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'critics' is the definition.
(I know this)

'rebuke discontented audience members' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'audience' could be 'viewers' (viewers is a kind of audience) and 'viewers' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 're' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for reviewers that I've seen is " critics".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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