TV Ratings 2021

Did anyone catch Before We Die on channel 4 with Lesley Sharp? I am catching up on it just now. It is very compulsive viewing.
 
Rita said:
Did anyone catch Before We Die on channel 4 with Lesley Sharp? I am catching up on it just now. It is very compulsive viewing.
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It's filmed here, so I did partly for that. It was kind of 7/10 for me. I was probably put off by Mr L griping about how it wasn't as good as the original all the time, though.
 
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It's filmed here, so I did partly for that. It was kind of 7/10 for me. I was probably put off by Mr L griping about how it wasn't as good as the original all the time, though.
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Yes. I was going to say I think it is set in Bristol. I had no idea it was a remake? I am only on episode 4 of 6 just now, and am really enjoying it.
 
Rita said:
Yes. I was going to say I think it is set in Bristol. I had no idea it was a remake? I am only on episode 4 of 6 just now, and am really enjoying it.
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The original is Swedish. Not sure where he watched it. I didn't.
 
lolly said:
The original is Swedish. Not sure where he watched it. I didn't.
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I think it might have been on BBC4. I watched the first episode of the remake and it felt too familiar to stick with. Also Lesley Sharp didn't seem as good to me as usual.
 
FetchFugly said:
I think it might have been on BBC4. I watched the first episode of the remake and it felt too familiar to stick with. Also Lesley Sharp didn't seem as good to me as usual.
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I know she has been in MANY dramas over the years (my favourites off the top of my head being Clocking Off and Daylight Robbery) but you are so right. She seemed so WOODEN at parts in this, especially in the first episode. Strange considering she is usually pretty faultless.
 
She really is incredibly watchable in everything I've seen her in. She usually manages to elevate quite dull material, but is curiously flat in this.
 
July 5 - 11

01 Euro 2020: Italy vs England 17.791m
02 UEFA European Football Championship: England vs Denmark 17.675m
03 Euro 2020: Italy vs Spain 11.577m
04 Wimbledon (5th July 20:04) 5.395m
05 Wimbledon (11th July 13:05) 5.096m
06 BBC Weekend News 4.931m
07 Coronation Street 4.870m
08 Celebrity Gogglebox 4.554m
09 Emmerdale 4.466m
10 UEFA European Football Championship: Italy vs England 4.197m
11 BBC News at Six 4.153m
12 Long Lost Family 3.917m
13 BBC News at Ten 3.548m
14 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 3.383m
15 Dragons' Den 3.357m
16 BBC News Special 3.201m
17 Love Island 3.128m
18 Casualty 2.961m
19 Rolling In It 2.911m
20 EastEnders 2.698m
 
What was the Wimbledon match at #4? The Men's Final was #5, and the Women's Final nowhere. But that top rated match was the second Monday. Murray went out before then, didn't he?
 
@Rita - Love Island increases from 3.128m to 4.087m when viewing on smartphones and tablets etc is included.
 
lolly said:
What was the Wimbledon match at #4? The Men's Final was #5, and the Women's Final nowhere. But that top rated match was the second Monday. Murray went out before then, didn't he?
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Was it not the match with Emma Raducanu? She's British and it was a pretty dramatic match.
 
lolly said:
By comparison, Dragons' Den increases only from 3.357m to 3.390m.
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That is a BIG JUMP. Shows that the younger generations viewing habits differ greatly from everyone else’s. I would NEVER watch on a mobile phone!
 
Rita said:
That is a BIG JUMP. Shows that the younger generations viewing habits differ greatly from everyone else’s. I would NEVER watch on a mobile phone!
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I do occasionally watch things on my tablet, but it's very much second choice or if I'm away from home.
 
lolly said:
I do occasionally watch things on my tablet, but it's very much second choice or if I'm away from home.
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Strangely I don’t watch much tv when I am away even though I have all the facilities to do so. I tend to just record what I want to see then catch up when I get back home.
 
Rita said:
That is a BIG JUMP. Shows that the younger generations viewing habits differ greatly from everyone else’s. I would NEVER watch on a mobile phone!
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My housemate is very strange. She watches stuff on her tablet while working, even though she's working in a room with a massive TV next to her. She also listens to tinny sounding music from Spotify from her mobile phone too, despite being in the room with the Alexa that is linked to her Spotify account. Some people seem to just be more comfortable watching and listening to stuff in an inferior quality and I can't get my head around it.
 
No Way Reaction GIF by Love Island
 
July 12 - 18

01 Baptiste 6.218m
02 Coronation Street 5.221m
03 Antiques Roadshow 4.988m
04 Emmerdale 4.500m
05 Professor T 4.343m
06 Celebrity Gogglebox 4.225m
07 Long Lost Family 4.172m
08 Countryfile 4.067m
09 The Repair Shop 3.911m
10 BBC News at Six 3.801m
11 BBC Weekend News 3.700m
12 Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trips 3.628m
13 BBC News at Ten 3.339m
14 EastEnders 3.192m
15 Love Island 3.180m
16 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 3.052m
17 Lie With Me 2.847m
18 BBC News Special 2.813n
19 Casualty 2.783m
20 Love Your Garden 2.540m
 
Love Island increases from 3.180m to 3.986m with laptop/tablet/smartphone viewing included. I don't have access to all individual episodes of EastEnders to calculate its average, but the top episode of the week increased from 3.326m to 3.690, so Love Island is comfortably ahead of it.

It would also put it at #9 in the overall chart, as no other programme does anywhere near as well on laptop etc viewing. In fact I think EastEnders is probably the closest, of the programmes in this chart at least.
 
Those Casualty figures are poor. May go the same way as Holby City before long.
 
Drama and sport fans helped BBC iPlayer to achieve a record-breaking first half of the year in 2021.

Programmes were streamed over 3.3 billion times between January and June this year, up 8% on the same period last year, and up a massive 59% on the same period in 2019 following huge growth in early 2020.

The second half of the year has also kicked off to a record-breaking start, thanks to the huge popularity of Euro 2020 and Wimbledon, both of which were available to watch on iPlayer in Ultra HD. The Euro 2020 final between England and Italy on 11 July set a new live viewing record on iPlayer, with 5.8 million streams, while the Wimbledon Men’s singles final drew big numbers too, with 1.7 million live streams as Novak Djokovic beat Matteo Berrettini.

So far, 2021 on iPlayer has seen:

Police corruption thriller Line Of Duty’s return become the biggest single episode of the year, as the first episode of the sixth series was streamed 8.7 million times - also more than any single episode across the whole of last year.
Viewers have also raced through the previous five series, with the show streamed a total of 127 million times in the first six months of the year.
Line of Duty is now the second most popular programme of the year behind only EastEnders, which is enjoying its best year ever on iPlayer with 140 million streams in the first half of the year.
Other big hits of the year so far include exotic thriller The Serpent, starring Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman; Jimmy McGovern’s prison drama Time, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham; Northern Ireland-set crime drama Bloodlands, starring James Nesbitt; and Welsh mystery drama The Pact.

The most popular episodes per series on iPlayer between January and June 2021 are:

Rank

Programme

Episode

Streams

1

Line Of Duty

Series 6 - episode 1

8,745,000

2

The Serpent

Episode 1

6,092,000

3

Time

Episode 1

5,572,000

4

Line Of Duty

Series 1 - episode 1

5,190,000

5

Euro 2020

Round of 16: England v Germany

5,113,000

6

Bloodlands

Series 1 - episode 1

4,638,000

7

The Pact

Episode 1

4,201,000

8

Traces

Episode 1

4,078,000

9

Line Of Duty

Series 2 - episode 1

3,541,000

10

A Perfect Planet

Episode 1 - Volcano

3,484,000

Dan McGolpin, Director, BBC iPlayer and channels, says: “There’s been a step-change in the popularity of BBC iPlayer over the last two years and during the first half of 2021 we’ve seen further growth including some incredible numbers for Line of Duty, the best half-year on record for EastEnders and a spectacular performance for Euro 2020. It’s also fantastic to see so many brand-new series attracting large audiences with The Serpent, Time, Bloodlands, The Pact and A Perfect Planet all featuring episodes in the iPlayer top ten.”
 
July 19 - 25

01 Coronation Street 5.210m
02 Emmerdale 4.502m
03 Celebrity Gogglebox 4.492m
04 Baptiste 4.380m
05 Countryfile 4.237m
06 The Repair Shop 4.093m
07 Professor T 3.799m
08 Long Lost Family 3.799m
09 BBC News at Six 3.747m
10 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.699m
11 BBC Weekend News 3.471m
12 Casualty 3.386m
13 EastEnders 3.247m
14 Love Island 3.182m
15 BBC News at Ten 3.031m
16 Take Off with Bradley & Holly 2.927m
17 Craig & Bruno's Great British Road Trips 2.879m
18 Olympics (25/07/2021 19:30) 2.709m
19 Holby City 2.587m
20 ITV News Weekday Teatime 2.579m
 
barb.co.uk not yet updated to get the rest of the Love Island data. I'll post when it has.
 
Love Island up to 4.008m with smartphone etc viewing included.
 
July 26 - August 1

01 Coronation Street 5.215m
02 Emmerdale 4.511m
03 BBC News at Six 4.357m
04 Countryfile 4.240m
05 Long Lost Family 3.955m
06 Olympics (01/08/2021 19:30) 3.883m
07 BBC Weekend News 3.859m
08 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.844m
09 Professor T 3.809m
10 Baptiste 3.608m
11 Casualty 3.504m
12 Olympics (26/07/2021 19:30) 3.406m
13 Olympics (27/07/2021 19:30) 3.399m
14 Love Island 3.361m
15 Olympics (28/07/2021 19.30) 3.324m
16 Fake or Fortune? 3.235m
17 Olympics (01/08/2021 09:45) 3.196m
18 Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trips 3.060m
19 Olympics (31/07/2021 12:45) 3.026m
20 Olympics (29/07/2021 19:30) 3.001m
 
I can't give an exact figure for EastEnders as I don't have the figures for two of the episodes, which were outside of the top 50 programmes, seemingly due to all the Olympics coverage. The #50 programme (Tuesday's The One Show) had 2.849m.
 
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Love Island increases to 4.307m with smartphone viewing etc included.
 
lolly said:
I can't give an exact figure for EastEnders as I don't have the figures for two of the episodes, which were outside of the top 50 programmes, seemingly due to all the Olympics coverage. The #50 programme (Tuesday's The One Show) had 2.849m.
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I suppose as it’s times have been messed around with due to The Euros and then The Olympics the figures will be impacted.
 
The figures for both Corrie and Emmerdale both look quite low too, but they all seem to be on consistent decline now.
 
Rita said:
I suppose as it’s times have been messed around with due to The Euros and then The Olympics the figures will be impacted.
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And people watching on iPlayer ahead of TV broadcast (the are still being put there, aren't they?) won't be counted, either.
 
lolly said:
And people watching on iPlayer ahead of TV broadcast (the are still being put there, aren't they?) won't be counted, either.
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Yes they were last week, but I think it will be business as usual from here on in unless they are just going to carry on that way? Surely not?
 
August 2 - 8

01 Coronation Street 5.240m
02 Emmerdale 4.480m
03 BBC News at Six 4.279m
04 Countryfile 4.239m
05 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.149m
06 Long Lost Family 4.077m
07 Casualty 3.945m
08 Olympics (02/08/2021 19:30) 3.896m
09 Olympics (05/08/2021 19:30) 3.809m
10 Olympics (06/08/2021 19:30) 3.800m
11 Professor T 3.633m
12 Olympics (03/08/2021 19:30) 3.626m
13 Love Island 3.625m
14 Olympics (07/08/2021 08:55) 3.381m
15 BBC Weekend News 3.368m
16 Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trips 3.249m
17 Baptiste 3.210m
18 BBC News at Ten 3.207m
19 Olympics (04/08/2021 19:30) 3.111m
20 Fake or Fortune? 3.029m
 
Again no figure for EastEnders as only one episode made the overall top fifty - that episode had 2.993m - all other episodes must have had below 2.910m which is what the lowest programme (Thursday's ITV teatime news) had.

@Rita - Love Island up to 4.570m after smartphone etc viewing included.
 
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