Nine audience falls below one million

The Nine Network’s poor start to the 2011 TV ratings season got worse on Tuesday night when not a single show from the broadcaster rated more than 1m.

While there have been a number of recent occasions where Nine News has been the only program to deliver metro ratings above 1m, last night it rated 994,000, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.  

Last week, the only Nine shows to rate above 1m were Nine News, 60 Minutes, Underbelly Files and one episode of Two And A Half Men which has just seen its current series cancelled in the US.

Seven continued its dominance of the Tuesday schedule with Packed To The Rafters winning the night with 1.748m. My Kitchen Rules rated a strong 1.595m.

The network averaged a 28.4% share for its primary channel, while Nine and Ten were both below 20%. Seven also had a good night with its digital channels, with 7Mate top with a 3% share and 7Two joint second on 2.9%.

Menawhile, Nine was at least able to put the  put the Ben Elton debacle behind it, with an episode of programming warhorse Adults Only 20 To 01 doing better in the timeslot than any of the three episodes of Live From Planet Earth achieved.

20 To 01 rated an average audience of 469,000, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam. Elton had averaged 455,000 for Live From Planet Earth’s first episode, 384,000 for the second and 189,000 for the third (which ran in a later slot in some states).

Ten’s best performer was NCIS, which rated 1.122m.

Top Gear averaged 814,000 for Nine

Seven’s Conviction Kitchen aired at 9.30pm, slipped slightly on last week’s debut, down from 825,000 to 757,000.

Top 15 shows:

1. Packed to the Rafters Seven 1.748m
2. My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.595m
3. Seven News Seven 1.197m
4. Today Tonight Seven 1.134m
5. NCIS – 8:30pm Ten 1.122m
6. Home and Away Seven 1.028m
7. Nine News Nine 0.994m
8. The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.987m
9. A Current Affair Nine 0.959m
10. ABC News ABC 0.940m
11. The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.918m
12. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 0.839m
13. Top Gear Nine 0.814m
14. NCIS – 9:30pm Ten 0.784m
15. Conviction Kitchen Seven 0.757m

Tuesday’s share:

• Seven: 28.4%
• Nine: 19.1%
• Ten: 17.3%
• ABC1: 11.1%
• SBS1: 4.7%
• 7mate: 3.0%
• 7TWO 2.9%
• GO!: 2.9%
• Eleven: 2.9%
• Gem: 2.8%
• ABC2: 1.6%
• One: 1.2%
• SBS2: 0.9%
• ABC3: 0.6%
• ABC News 24: 0.6%

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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