Welcome to Tuesday nights – owner: Seven

Tim Burrowes

March 4, 2009 9:54

If Nine currently owns Monday nights with Underbelly, then Seven has a similar lock on Tuesdays. The Rafter family once again helped the network to an emphatic win for the evening.

Packed To The Rafters grabbed a 1.9m audience, in what was another dismal Tuesday for Nine, according to the preliminary OzTam figures. Wipeout struggled in the 7.30pm slot with a 1.1m audience – 15th for the night – and the strategy of threre episodes of Two And A Half Men – at 7, 8.30 and 9 didn’t help much either, delivering audiences of 1.2m, 1.1m and 1m and relegating Nine to third place behind Ten.

NCIS delivered a little better for Ten with its double episodes serving up 1.5m and 1.3m audiences.

Last night: Seven 33.4%; Ten 25.3%; Nine 24.3%; ABC 12.4%; SBS 4.6%

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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.