Rafters death provides ratings boost for Today Tonight
The Rafters effect stretched into Thursday night with actress Zoe Ventoura talking about the death of her character Mel Rafter delivering Seven’s Today Tonight the highest rating show of the day.
Today Tonight rated 1.656m according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
It was a second strong night in a row for Seven, with the network scoring six of the top ten shows. Ten’s best performer was Glee with 1.337m, fifth for the night.
And Nine found itself dragged down by the cricket, with the one day international with Sri Lanka averaging just 683,000.
- Today Tonight Seven 1.656m
- The Force Seven 1.556m
- Seven News Seven 1.512m
- Border Security Seven 1.493m
- Glee Ten 1.337m
- Nine News Nine 1.224m
- Home and Away Seven 1.067m
- City Homicide Seven 1.066m
- ABC News ABC 0.984m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.846m
- The Good Wife Ten 0.816m
- The Big Bang Theory – Episode 1 Nine 0.787m
- Ten News Ten 0.756m
- The 7:30 Report ABC 0.692m
- One Day Cricket: Australia v Sri Lanka Nine 0.683m
Wednesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 26.9%
- Nine: 22.8%
- Ten: 18.5%
- ABC1: 11.0%
- GO!: 4.5%
- 7TWO: 4.2%
- SBS1: 3.9%
- 7mate: 3.3%
- ABC2: 2.1%
- ABC3: 0.6%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
- Gem: 0.2%
- SBS2: 1.0%
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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Despite Packed to the Rafters being a quality show it is a sad day when audiences find an actress talking about the death of a ‘fictional’ character the most interesting thing on TV.
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I’d like to see Mumbrella cover the hashtag #rafters – just see how crazy it was over the last few days!
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Thursday or Wednesday…..
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