RBT wins 764,000 for Nine but viewers tune out for Hostages

Dylan McDermott and Toni Collette in Hostages

Nine won over 760,000 viewers for RBT, following the police Random Breath Test units on the road, but audiences dropped off for the new episode of US drama Hostages that followed, OzTam’s preliminary overnight ratings show.

Hostages, starring Australian actress Toni Collette, was third in the 8.30pm timeslot and 16th for the night with 488,000 metro viewers. Winning at 8.30pm was the ABC’s repeat episode of QI with Stephen Fry, which averaged 693,000 metro viewers, followed by Rango on Channel Ten, as 587,000 tuned in for the animated western feature film starring Johnny Depp as a lizard.

Meanwhile Seven’s James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan was fourth in the 8.30pm timeslot with a metro audience of 473,000 and was 17th for the night in total people.