Rafters death delivers big ratings for Seven and crushes Warney on Top Gear
The much publicised death in Packed To The Rafters took the show back above 2m on Tuesday in a set of TV ratings dominated by Seven.
An average of 2.335m watched the show, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam. In a well-kept secret, Mel Rafter, played by Zoe Ventoura, was killed off in a car accident.
Thanks to the Melbourne Cup, Seven had seven of the top ten shows during Tuesday.
Top rating was the race itself, with OzTam recording 2.595m viewers, although that does not include out of home viewing in work places or pubs which would have delivered a much higher number.
The presentation of the trophy had 2.587m viewers, the second biggest show the the day. Rafters was third.
Iron Chef Australia remained above the million mark with 1.092m
On other channels, Ten’s Talkin Bout Your Generation had a strong night, delivering 1.258m, seventh for the day.
Despite (or based on viewer comments on Nine’s Top Gear site, because of) the presence of Shane Warne, viewers turned their backs on Nine’s Top Gear Australia which rated 969,000, 16th for the night. Top Gear was third in its timeslot.
- Melbourne Cup – The Race Seven 2.595m
- Melbourne Cup – Race Presentations Seven 2.587m
- Packed to the Rafters Seven 2.335m
- Melbourne Cup – The Mounting Yard Seven 2.052m
- Seven News Seven 1.593m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.408m
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.258m
- Nine News Nine 1.245m
- Melbourne Cup – Late Afternoon Seven 1.220m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.155m
- NCIS Ten 1.097m
- Iron Chef Seven 1.092m
- Home and Away Seven 1.083m
- ABC News ABC 1.023m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 0.974m
Channel share:
- Seven: 29.6%
- Ten: 19.9%
- Nine: 18.6%
- ABC1: 12.3%
- SBS1: 4.1%
- GO!: 3.9%
- 7TWO: 3.5%
- 7mate: 2.6%
- Gem: 1.8%
- ABC2: 1.3%
- SBS2: 1.1%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
- ABC News 24: 0.4%
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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Im so mad i could sew i loved her i even meet her!
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Ch. 7.. Why.. why did Mel have to die.
This was one of the saddest moments in TV history. Mel you will be sorely missed.
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Do you mean sue?
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Hang on – you mean the race was one program and the trophy was another. Talk about stacking the odds….
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Hey Raftersfan. Apparently Zoe had opportunities in the US that she couldn’t walk away from, so having informed the producers she was written out by the time-honoured tradition of an accident … so it was hardly Channel Seven’s fault.
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Ah, it’s a TV show, right?
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Cant Believe ACA & Two & a half Still make this list, do people actually use their brains when they are watching TV? There are other aspects of life outside of getting laid and the real cost of speed cameras you know.
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… probably more than you did Marcus when you ‘crafted’ your post …
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Laura, maybe he meant “spew”
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‘Rafters death delivers big ratings for Seven and crushes Warney on Top Gear’
Nice headline. Pity the two shows weren’t even in the same timeslot. Rafters ran against a UK repeat of TG from 2030…
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Oh, and the topgear.com website that you’ve linked to isn’t owned, run or managed by Nine. It’s owned by Park Publishing, a 50/50 partnership between BBC UK and ACP Magazines. Would it kill you to hit Google once in a while?
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Hi (other) Tim,
They weren’t in the time slot, but they were on the same night.
One was the most watched show of the night. The other wasn;t even in the top 15 for the day. That’s a crushign to me.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella