Seven has continued to storm ahead in the ratings battle, with My Kitchen Rules once again plating up a delicious number one spot for the network.
The show pulled in 1.68 million metropolitan viewers on Tuesday, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam. While slightly down from the previous night's figure of 1.81 million viewers, the reality show was still the most watched program of the night.
The Seven Network's ratings dominance seems unassailable. It took out the top four positions in the ratings ladder last night with local drama Packed to the Rafters in second spot at 1.48 million viewers. Seven News was third with 1.17 million, followed by Today Tonight in fourth with 1.03 million people. Home & Away wasn't far behind in sixth with 968,000 viewers tuned in to the latest melodramas of the long-running soap.
Nine News was fifth for the night, just cracking the 1 million mark with 1.01 million viewers, while A Current Affair was eighth. Nine's Tuesday night comedy line-up saw the network garner solid ratings for 2 Broke Girls in 10th with 816,000 viewers, two episodes of The Big Bang Theory in 11th and 12th, followed by Two and A Half Men in 13th.
Ten's dependable US crime series NCIS was the network's most watched program in ninth with 847,000 viewers.
Across the main channels, Seven won the night with 28.3% of the audience share, outstripping its nearest rival, Nine, by ten percentage points. Nine had 18.3%, followed by Ten with 14.5%, the ABC at 9.4% and SBS with 4.2%.
Meanwhile, Seven's Revenge has notched another achievement on its belt, topping the chart as the most time-shifted program since monitoring of recorded viewing was introduced. The debut episode of Revenge, originally broadcast in Australia on 13 February, added a further 311,966 viewers to its stable, who had time-shifted the show.
The 12 February episode of Ten's critically acclaimed drama Homeland was the second highest with 308,573 time-shifted viewers. The top 20 list is dominated by overseas programming including Alcatraz, Downton Abbey, Two and A Half Men and Doc Martin. The exceptions are local series Underbelly: Razor and Angry Boys.
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