TV Ratings 2023

lolly

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December 26 - January 1

01 Happy New Year Live! 11.080m
02 Death In Paradise 7.599m
03 Happy Valley 7.564m
04 Call The Midwife 6.595m
05 Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve 5.569m
06 The Masked Singer 4.923m
07 Coronation Street 4.848m
08 BBC News at Six 4.520m
09 The Repair Shop 4.224m
10 Emmerdale 4.137m
11 The Weakest Link 3.787m
12 EastEnders 3.718m
13 The Graham Norton Show 3.669m
14 The Chase 3.634m
15 Detectorists 3.629m
16 Mrs Brown's Boys 3.578m
17 Farewell Doc Martin 3.478m
18 Film: No Time To Die 3.448m
19 The Chase: The Bloopers 3.213m
20 Would I Lie To You? 3.084m

Platform data not included
 
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Happy Valley should be top but I think that is still mega impressive viewing figures for the opening episode and should grow by another couple of million viewers later on catch up.
 
Call The Midwife followed by Happy Valley on a Sunday evening is absolute DREAM VIEWING for me.
 
I'm sure I saw much higher figures for Sam Ryder tweeted initially - I can only assume the the initial figures included the Happy New Year show which was listed as a separate show here. The chart here separated the pre midnight (4.981m) and post midnight (6.157m) shows, and I just averaged them for 5.569m. Years and Years managed 3.949m last year, so a considerable improvement regardless.
 
Top iPlayer programmes over 20 December to 2 January

Programme Brand
Streams​
EastEnders
23,719,000​
The Traitors
12,396,000​
Hey Duggee
10,177,000​
His Dark Materials
8,160,000​
Bluey
6,169,000​
Strike
6,131,000​
Bing
5,316,000​
Happy Valley
5,049,000​
BBC News
4,036,000​
Motherland
3,968,000​
Gavin & Stacey
3,963,000​
Call the Midwife
3,673,000​
Mrs Brown's Boys
3,526,000​
Waterloo Road (2006-15)
3,499,000​
Death in Paradise
3,454,000​
Ghosts
2,950,000​
Detectorists
2,904,000​
Breakfast
2,794,000​
Numberblocks
2,528,000​
Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve
2,462,000​
 
And individual episodes

Programme Episodes
Streams​
EastEnders - 25/12/2022
2,490,000​
EastEnders - 26/12/2022
2,363,000​
EastEnders - 29/12/2022
2,254,000​
EastEnders - 23/12/2022
2,094,000​
EastEnders - 20/12/2022
2,037,000​
EastEnders - 27/12/2022
2,034,000​
EastEnders - 28/12/2022
1,956,000​
Call the Midwife - Christmas Special 2022
1,910,000​
EastEnders - 22/12/2022
1,884,000​
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
1,817,000​
The Traitors - Episode 12
1,811,000​
Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve - Part 1
1,669,000​
The Traitors - Episode 11
1,569,000​
The Traitors - Episode 10
1,563,000​
Motherland - Last Christmas
1,548,000​
Death in Paradise - Christmas Special 2022
1,502,000​
EastEnders - 01/01/2023
1,485,000​
Match of the Day - 2022/23 - 26/12/2022
1,294,000​
EastEnders - 02/01/2023
1,196,000​
The Traitors - Episode 1
1,175,000​
 
BARB have not released the 7 day figures for the Christmas fortnight yet. ThinkBox doesn’t include devices which is why these figures are lower than the original overnight data.
 
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Overnight data doesn't usually include platform data either - but you're right that BARB hasn't updated for over two weeks now.
 
I’ve just noticed Call The Midwife looks like is has shed just under a million viewers from last year at the same time. :(
 
January 2 - 8

01 Happy Valley 8.177m
02 Death In Paradise 7.549m
03 The Apprentice 7.095m
04 Call The Midwife 7.086m
05 Silent Witness 6.442m
06 Harry: The Interview 5.972m
07 The Masked Singer 5.691m
08 Coronation Street 4.974m
09 BBC News at Six 4.479m
10 Emmerdale 4.374m
11 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 4.243m
12 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.233m
13 Dragons' Den 4.192m
14 BBC Weekend News 4.135m
15 Stonehouse 4.041m
16 FA Cup: Manchester United vs Everton 4.043m
17 FA Cup: Manchester City vs Chelsea 4.035m
18 EastEnders 3.727m
19 The Chase 3.713m
20 Countryfile 3.559m


BARB still not updated since before Christmas, so again these figures don't include platform data (device viewing).
 
January 9 - 15

01 Happy Valley 8.784m (+375k)
02 Death In Paradise 7.845m (+141k)
03 The Apprentice 7.585m (+297k)
04 Call The Midwife 7.013m (+605k)
05 Silent Witness 6.080m (+554k)
06 Vera 5.921m (+57k)
07 The Masked Singer 5.432m (+32k)
08 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.278m (+57k)
09 Coronation Street 5.135m (+104k)
10 Dancing On Ice 4.623m (+47k)
11 Emmerdale 4.551m (+89k)
12 BBC News at Six 4.398m (+22k)
13 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 4.320m (+18m)
14 Dragons' Den 4.004m (+86k)
15 EastEnders 4.093m (+496k)
16 Countryfile 3.622m (+9k)
17 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.539m (+12k)
18 The Chase 3.521m (+13k)
19 Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 3.407m (+17k)
20 The Martin Lewis Money Show Live 3.386m (+12k)
 
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Happy Valley is up almost a million viewers on the first episode.
 
lolly said:
January 9 - 15

01 Happy Valley 8.409m
02 Death In Paradise 7.704m
03 The Apprentice 7.288m
04 Call The Midwife 6.408m
05 Silent Witness 6.080m
06 Vera 5.864m
07 The Masked Singer 5.400m
08 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.221m
09 Coronation Street 5.032m
10 Dancing On Ice 4.576m
11 Emmerdale 4.462m
12 BBC News at Six 4.376m
13 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 4.302m
14 Dragons' Den 3.918m
15 Countryfile 3.613m
16 EastEnders 3.597m
17 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.527m
18 The Chase 3.508m
19 Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 3.390m
20 The Martin Lewis Money Show Live 3.374m

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Is no platform data the reason Love Island isn’t in the top 20?
 
BARB has finally updated since the last week before Christmas, so I've updated this week's chart only to include platform data. If anyone has a question about the full figures for any specific programme in the missing week's, let me know, but I won't be updating every week missing.

I've indicated the platform viewing separately in the chart as well. In terms of places it doesn't make much difference at all, just lifting EastEnders over Countryfile. But it's interesting to what shows pick up the most platform viewing. Particularly EastEnders which has over 10% of its audience now not watching on TV.
 
I am quite shocked that Call The Midwife got the biggest bump after the platform data was added. I thought it would have had an older audience.
 
I find it interesting that the BBC dramas are doing so much better than ITV on platform viewing. Admittedly that's only Vera on this chart, but it's WAY behind. I did wonder if that was because Vera skewed an older demographic, but Call The Midwife would also have an older audience as well, I'd imagine. In fact aren't they scheduled directly opposite each other?

I think part of it is BBC iPlayer just being much better to use on mobile devices than ITVX.
 
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I find it interesting that the BBC dramas are doing so much better than ITV on platform viewing. Admittedly that's only Vera on this chart, but it's WAY behind. I did wonder if that was because Vera skewed an older demographic, but Call The Midwife would also have an older audience as well, I'd imagine. In fact aren't they scheduled directly opposite each other?
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Yes, I think so. Both at 8pm on a Sunday evening.
 
Incidentally, no Netflix shows or films in the chart since Glass Onion got 6.739m in w/e 25/12/2022 and 5.206m in w/e 01/01/2023.
 
lolly said:
Incidentally, no Netflix shows or films in the chart since Glass Onion got 6.739m in w/e 25/12/2022 and 5.206m in w/e 01/01/2023.
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There’s been bugger all in terms of big shows.
I realised I hadn’t checked the Coming Soon bit for a while and almost everything was the same as I remembered at new year
 
I'm not linking, because it was in The Smellygraph, but they've suggested YOUTUBE VIEWS may be added to viewing figures.
 
How many shows are streamed on YouTube? But yes, they should be counted.
 
I've noticed they put up more and more. I guess so many programs end up on there illegally and if they can make money from it, why not?

I've found myself browsing YouTube and watched something I could have watched on iPlayer.
 
Is that YouTube premium or free? I genuinely had no idea you could watch full BBC/ITV etc shows on it.
 
You can buy shows, but I've seen the odd show uploaded. I'm not on Premium at the moment. I don't really know how it works.
 
January 16 - 22

01 Happy Valley 9.025m
02 Death In Paradise 7.328m
03 Call The Midwife 6.924m
04 The Apprentice 6.835m
05 Silent Witness 6.200m
06 Vera 5.905m
07 The Masked Singer 5.429m
08 Coronation Street 5.294m
09 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.153m
10 Emmerdale 4.593m
11 BBC News at Six 4.418m
12 Dancing On Ice 3.969m
13 Dragons' Den 3.885m
14 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 3.799m
15 The FA Cup 3.776m
16 Countryfile 3.751m
17 EastEnders 3.718m
18 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.609m
19 The Chase 3.591m
20 Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 3.500m
 
Go Happy Valley! Up 1.5 million on the first episode. :disco:
 
Those figures include platform viewing. Only two episodes of Love Island made the top 50 (Monday at #40 and Tuesday at #45), so I don't know the platform data for the episodes that didn't.

But the Monday increased 23% on platform viewing, and the Tuesday 24%. So assuming a 24% uplift for all episodes, I'd estimate an average audience of 2.854m, which I think would put it at around #25 or #26 overall.
 
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Go Happy Valley! Up 1.5 million on the first episode. :disco:
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I think there are a lot of people who started watching the previous series over Christmas and new year, who didn't watch the first episodes of this series live, but who are now catching up. I think we can safely predict huge numbers for the finale.
 
lolly said:
Those figures include platform viewing. Only two episodes of Love Island made the top 50 (Monday at #40 and Tuesday at #45), so I don't know the platform data for the episodes that didn't.

But the Monday increased 23% on platform viewing, and the Tuesday 24%. So assuming a 24% uplift for all episodes, I'd estimate an average audience of 2.854m, which I think would put it at around #25 or #26 overall.
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That is a fair bit down on the Summer season. I don’t know how the last Winter series fared in the ratings but from memory ( which is increasingly patchy) I don’t think it met the heights of the Summer season.
 
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That is a fair bit down on the Summer season. I don’t know how the last Winter series fared in the ratings but from memory ( which is increasingly patchy) I don’t think it met the heights of the Summer season.
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When was the last winter series? I'll have a dig...
 
lolly said:
I think there are a lot of people who started watching the previous series over Christmas and new year, who didn't watch the first episodes of this live, but who are now catching up. I think we can safely predict huge numbers for the finale.
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I have heard of so many people who are catching up on season 1 and 2 then jumping in to watch season 3 that never watched it first time round. I am always a bit shocked when people say they haven’t watched it ( I know you haven’t but that is because you don’t like the violence).
 
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That series launched with 4.483m. This series launched with 3.381m.
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Down a million then. :o Maybe it is starting to lose its shine. It has followed the exact same format since the first season with the only mix up being the presenters who all play the exact same part. I know it is still fantastic figures for ITV2 though.
 
lolly said:
I find it interesting that the BBC dramas are doing so much better than ITV on platform viewing. Admittedly that's only Vera on this chart, but it's WAY behind. I did wonder if that was because Vera skewed an older demographic, but Call The Midwife would also have an older audience as well, I'd imagine. In fact aren't they scheduled directly opposite each other?

I think part of it is BBC iPlayer just being much better to use on mobile devices than ITVX.
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I cannot abide ITV Player or All4 or whatever they're called. The adverts are just interminable. It's the reason I have stopped watching The Masked Singer at all, I just cannot cope with the adverts. I'm sure that has something to do with why they don't get as many viewers on platforms.
 
January 23 - 29 (platform viewing included)

01 Happy Valley 9.664m
02 Death In Paradise 7.277m
03 The Apprentice 6.958m
04 Call The Midwife 6.705m
05 Silent Witness 6.044m
06 Vera 5.961m
07 The Masked Singer 5.743m
08 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.690m
09 Coronation Street 4.863n
10 Emmerdale 4.456m
11 Dragons' Den 4.236m
12 Dancing On Ice 4.183m
13 BBC News at Six 4.167m
14 FA Cup: Manchester City v Arsenal 4.087m
15 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.793m
16 EastEnders 3.778m
17 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 3.717m
18 BBC Weekend News 3.498m
19 The Chase 3.429m
20 Antiques Roadshow 3.412m
 
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