Rafters and MKR rule for Tuesday ratings

Tim Burrowes

March 21, 2012 10:00

Last night’s TV ratings unfolded with what has become an increasingly familiar pattern on Tuesdays this year.

Seven’s My Kitchen Rules dominated with 1.846m while Packed To The Rafters rated 1.471m for the network. Seven News was the next biggest show of the night with an average 1.229 viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Nine’s only program above 1m was Nine News. Next for Nine came The Big Bang Theory with 807,000.

Nine ran a split schedule, rebroadcasting Every Heart Beats True: The Jim Stynes Story in Melbourne Adelaide and Perth, where it rated 216,000 in total.

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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.