'The Bible', created by Mark Burnett and wife Roma Downey, was not able to sustain its high debut rating plummeting to more than 250,000 viewers from its 601,000 and 456,000 viewers during its first two episodes.

It looked like the Aussies had easily diverted their attention to some other shows despite 'The Bible' receiving three primetime Emmy Award nominations from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

According to Charisma News, 'The Bible' was up for the Outstanding Miniseries or Movie category fighting bottleneck with FX Network's American Horror Story: Asylum, HBO's Behind the Candelabra, HBO's Phil Spector, USA's Political Animals and Sundance Channel's Top of the Lake.

'The Bible' was also nominated in the Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special and the Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries.

In a report from TVbytheNumbers.com, The Bible had become the top-selling miniseries of all time and the No. 1 television series on DVD and Blu-ray in the past five years.

With the success of 'The Bible' in the U.S., NBC will work with Mr Burnett for the series' prequel titled, AD: Beyond the Bible.

But as for the Aussie audience, 'The Bible' will not go as far as how it was in the U.S.

Even with the plunge of the show's rating, Nine's ratings remained unaffected.

According 9News, the network's The Block Sky High won the overall ratings with 1.327 million viewers and The great Australian Bake-Off cooking had 944,000 viewers. That is 23.0 per cent channel share ahead of Seven which only got 20,2 per cent and Ten which got 16.2 per cent.

Nine also lead the race in the 25-54 demographic with a 24.5 per cent share against Seven's 21.1 per cent and ten's 19.0 per cent, according to 9News.

Nine News' A Current Affair was also ahead of Seven News' Today Tonight. A Current Affair had 1.63 million viewers while Today Tonight had 1.25 million.

One hour coverage of the birth of the Royal Baby took a toll to Seven's ratings as it lost the first half hour to Nine News nationally and lost the second hour to A Current Affair.

Nine News nationally got a remarkable percentage of 1.363 to 1.250 million during the first hour while A Current Affair had 1.170 million to 1.055 million percentages.