Seven wins night dominated by earthquake-driven scheduling changes

Tim Burrowes

February 23, 2011 10:41

Seven had the three most watched shows of Tuesday night in a schedule that saw several late programming changes to accommodate news of yesterday’s Christchurch earthquake.

Packed To The Rafters rated just under 1.8m, while My Kitchen Rules pulled in just over 1.6m and Seven News just under 1.4m accoridng to prelininary overnight ratings from OzTam.

The launch of Seven’s Conviction Kitchen may have lost out to Nine’s decision to bump Ben Elton from the 9.30pm timeslot to 10.30pm in the eatern states and replace it with an earthquake news special. Conviction Kitchen rated 825,000.

Shows dropped from the schedule included Seven losing Home & Away and Cougar Town, and Nine getting rid of Two And A Half Men. Ten dropped its replay of 6PM With George Negus for a news update.

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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.

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Conviction Kitchen My Kitchen Rules Nine OzTam Packed To The Rafters ratings Seven Ten TV

2 COMMENTS

David 23 Feb 11

So the earthquake may have saved Ben Elton for another week?

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H 23 Feb 11

A disaster saves a catastrophe then!

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