Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Packed to the Ratings


Seven’s new Australian drama Packed to the Rafters debuted with a huge audience capturing 1.95 million viewers last night, 50 000 viewers shy of the magical 2 million mark.

Rafters continued Seven’s domination of the television landscape winning the night with 37% of the audience and by another huge 15.5% margin from rival Nine with 22.5%.

Find My Family also debuted with huge numbers, 1.74 million people in fact tuned in plus the new series of RSPCA Animal Rescue had almost 1.7 million viewers as well.

On Monday Seven owned the top 6 shows of the night but Tuesday it was seven as Seven News, Today Tonight and Home and Away were all around the 1.5 million viewer mark and All Saints had 1.3 million viewers, winning its slot at 9:30PM.

Nine News (1.13 million viewers) was beaten by ABC News (1.3 million viewers) while A Current Affair (1.1 million viewers) still had 400 000 less viewers than Today Tonight (1.5 million viewers).

Seven would be most impressed with last night’s result of Packed to the Rafters, continuing the resurgence of the Australian drama genre.

With new episodes of Ten's NCIS against Rafters, the series may be challenged but the biggest test will be next week, to see if Rafters can maintain its large audience.

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