Seven's new US drama Once Upon A Time and Ten's local series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms both debuted to solid audiences last night.
Seven's fairytale drama Once Upon A Time, which had been heavily promoted at the beginning of the year, attracted 1.35 million viewers and was the highest rated program, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam. The show's first season had just ended in the US on the weekend.
With Once Upon A Time as its lead-in, Packed to the Rafters enjoyed a small bump in its audience with 1.21 million viewers, up from last week's 1.17 million people.
On Ten, the premiere of Australian scripted series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms hooked in 1.26 million viewers and was the third most watched program for Tuesday. A preceding documentary, Bikie Wars: Here and Now, garnered 989,000 people.
MasterChef dropped below the million mark with its first immunity challenge for the 2012 season with 954,000 viewers. It lost its timeslot to The Block but still trumped Home and Away and ABC News. Nine's The Block had 1.16 million viewers.
Other top 20 programs for Tuesday were Seven News, Nine News, A Current Affair (Nine), Today Tonight (Seven), The Big Bang Theory (Nine), 2 Broke Girls (Nine), Ten News, 7:30 (ABC), Hot Seat (Nine) and Deal or No Deal (Seven).
Across the main channels, Seven won the night with 24.5% of audience share, followed by Nine with 20.3%, Ten with 18.8%, the ABC with 11.9% and SBS with 3.8%.
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