Rafters death provides ratings boost for Today Tonight

Tim Burrowes

November 4, 2010 9:38

The Rafters effect stretched into Thursday night with actress Zoe Ventoura talking about the death of her character Mel Rafter delivering Seven’s Today Tonight the highest rating show of the day.

Today Tonight rated 1.656m according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

It was a second strong night in a row for Seven, with the network scoring six of the top ten shows. Ten’s best performer was Glee with 1.337m, fifth for the night.

And Nine found itself dragged down by the cricket, with the one day international with Sri Lanka averaging just 683,000.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Anonymous 4 Nov 10

Despite Packed to the Rafters being a quality show it is a sad day when audiences find an actress talking about the death of a ‘fictional’ character the most interesting thing on TV.

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Kim Ong 4 Nov 10

I’d like to see Mumbrella cover the hashtag #rafters – just see how crazy it was over the last few days!

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annoying 4 Nov 10

Thursday or Wednesday…..

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