Rafters stays relative while Rush starts to slide

Packed to the Rafters was again Australia’s most popular show with just under two million viewers, a similar result for lead in Find My Family.

Seven had all the momentum last night with RSPCA: Animal Rescue capturing almost 1.8 million viewers thanks to high ratings from Seven News, Today Tonight and Home and Away which just accounted for Two and Half Men, again Nine’s most popular show.

Nine News, A Current Affair and Wipeout were all around the 1.2 million mark, which is not a bad result but well behind all of Seven’s shows from 6-8:30 and in the 8:30 slot Two and A Half Men finished third in its slot beaten by Rafters and NCIS who had 1.2 million viewers.

Rush didn’t capitalize on last week’s figures or the lead-in from NCIS dropping about 200 000 viewers to finish third at 9:30PM with 912 000 viewers behind All Saints with 1.3 million and 20 to 1 who had 941 000 viewers.

Last night’s episode of Rush was not as sharp as its debut and was a bit of a let down. If the show continues to slide, we may, unfortunately have another Canal Road on our hands. A great shame when Rush looks like it could promise so much but perhaps this is why Ten are hiding the show in the 9:30 slot.

Tuesday’s ratings saw Seven (34.6%) win by almost 10% from Nine (25.5%), Ten (20.2%), ABC (15.4%) and SBS (4.3%)