Seven dominates Tuesday as Rafters makes a muted return

Tim Burrowes

February 15, 2012 9:37

Seven had its second night in a row of dominant ratings, with My Kitchen Rules, back-to-back episodes of Packed To The Rafters and Seven News the four most watched shows of the night.

However, Rafters was also well off its best. The 2008 series premiered with 1.945m, 2009 premiered at 1.873m and 2010 was 1.942m. Last night’s premiere was 1.439m, about 25% down on last year.

Despite that, Seven left little oxygen for Ten and Nine, which had an all comedy lineup.

For Nine, new comedy Two Broke Girls failed to break the 1m barrier. It rated 984,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam. A new Big Bang Theory episode rated 1.126m while the repeat episode rated 773,000. Two And A Half Men continued the fade that began last year, rating 695,000 and 642,000.

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Tim Burrowes

I write about the world's media and marketing industry from an Australian perspective Australian lens. I've worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia. I founded Mumbrella, which we sold in 2017.