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No episodes of Big Brother made the top 50 individual shows, so unfortunately I don't know the multiscreen figures which are only including on the barb website.

Excluding multiscreen, the audience ranged from a high of 2.251m to a low of 1.573m, (audience share between 16.2% and 10.2%) with an average of 1.876m. Ratings fell consistently throughout the week with every episode - the eviction didn't change that pattern. I know tweets I have seen since this chart period have indicated viewing has levelled out, though.

For Love Island I was able to make what I think was a decent estimate average based on the episodes which did make the top 50, but as none of the Big Brother shows did, I can't do that. However, I think it's probably reasonable to assume that it would do similarly to how Love Island did on multiscreen, and if so, I'd estimate an average of 2.326m
 
October 16 - 22

01 Strictly Come Dancing 8.786m
02 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 8.361m
03 Planet Earth III 7.620m
04 The Great British Bake Off 7.119m
05 Rugby World Cup: England vs South Africa 5.864m
06 The Long Shadow 5.521m
07 Antiques Roadshow 5.250m
08 The Reckoning 5.013m
09 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.852m
10 Coronation Street 4.803m
11 International Football: England vs Italy 4.486m
12 Celebrity Race Across The World 4.353m
13 Emmerdale 4.209m
14 Ghosts 4.112m
15 Have I Got News For You 3.946m
16 BBC News at Six 3.794m
17 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 3.790m
18 All Creatures Great And Small 3.723m
19 EastEnders 3.695m
20 Gogglebox 3.638m
 
I think it's fair to say Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream is a big fat flop. It doesn't appear in the top 50 shows of the week, so multi screen data not available, but I suspect a show like that wouldn't get a huge bump from that. And excluding it, it only had 2.024m. It was the #25 show on ITV, behind every episode of both the ITV Evening News and The Chase.
 
No episodes of Big Brother in the top 50, so again no multi screen data available. Without that, the audience ranged from a high of 1.690m to a low of 1.454m, and a percentage share of 12.4% - 10.3%. I'd estimate with multi screen viewing, it would probably be just under 2m on average.
 
The Long Shadow was done brilliantly. Harrowing from beginning to end.
 
Unusual to see only Corrie clinging on to the top 10, and Eastenders dangerously close to falling out of the top 10.
 
Rita said:
Unusual to see only Corrie clinging on to the top 10, and Eastenders dangerously close to falling out of the top 10.
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Although the audience figures for both are slightly up on what they had when they were #1 and #7 back in the summer. It's a reflection of there being more on that people want to watch now I guess - and audiences being higher in October than July.
 
Three Little Birds, and Time also missing. Although Time is maybe next weeks chart.
 
Three Little Birds 2.978m and #27. I think Time will impact next week.
 
lolly said:
Three Little Birds 2.978m and #27. I think Time will impact next week.
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I was hoping for a season 2 of Three Little Birds after the ending but am assuming that won’t be happening now.
 
Obviously the figures are useful in terms of comparison, but I do think drama series really do benefit from catch up after 7 days much more than any other shows. I really wish they published the 28 day data still.
 
Full figures not available yet so I won't post the full chart, but for week October 23 - 29, Big Brother had a high of 1.684m and a low of 1.567m. That's a high very narrowly down on the preceding week, and a low slightly up.

MAFS has a high of 2.339m, and a low of 2.117m - again very similar to the preceding week.
 
October 23 - 29

01 Strictly Come Dancing 9.199m
02 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 8.579m
03 Planet Earth III 7.145m
04 The Great British Bake Off 5.885m
05 The Long Shadow 5.608m
06 Coronation Street 4.804m
07 Celebrity Race Across The World 4.482m
08 Rugby World Cup: New Zealand vs South Africa 4.377m
09 Emmerdale 4.309m
10 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 4.172m
11 Time 4.141m
12 Ghosts 4.086m
13 EastEnders 3.804m
14 Have I Got News For You 3.785m
15 All Creatures Great And Small 3.768m
16 BBC News at Six 3.465m
17 Gogglebox 3.405m
18 Payback 3.253m
19 Rugby World Cup: Argentina vs England 3.203m
20 The Graham Norton Show 3.197m
 
Survivor ended up with 3.155m for the Saturday episode and 2.890m Sunday.
 
That is quite a drop for Bake Off. I must admit it doesn't hold my attention like it once did. Was that the week it changed nights?
 
Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream down to 1.936m for the second episode. Alan Carr must be pleased Picture Slam is a hit at least.
 
lolly said:
Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream down to 1.936m for the second episode. Alan Carr must be pleased Picture Slam is a hit at least.
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I usually hate quiz shows but really enjoy this Alan Carr one.
 
lolly said:
Survivor ended up with 3.155m for the Saturday episode and 2.890m Sunday.
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Why did the first week's episodes have overnights the next day but I can't find anything about Episodes 3 or 4 anywhere online?
 
No idea. I've noticed from accounts I follow that info doesn't seem to come through consistently.

What's probably worth mentioning is that Antiques Roadshow was shunted to BBC2 on Sunday for the chart above to make way for Survivor, and was directly against it. It still managed to beat it with 3.137m. However, that figure was down 2m on what Antiques Roadshow usually gets, and it's the first time I can recall that it hasn't featured in the chart. That must sting for the BBC.
 
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That is quite poor for Time. I think the first season performed a lot better than that.
 
Rita said:
That is quite poor for Time. I think the first season performed a lot better than that.
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It feels to me that quite a few dramas this year have performed poorly against expectations. But I wonder if our expectations are increasingly unrealistic.

I assume that at the end of the year the BBC will release iPlayer streaming info, and it will be interesting to see if that has continued to increase, and how those dramas fared.

We've only just watched The Woman In The Wall this week, and I'm sure other people are increasingly watching things much later than the week this chart captures. We haven't started Time yet, but we will watch it.

I still think the weekly chart has relevance, but for dramas particularly it realistically means less. Time actually only had around 1.8m viewers watching it live, but that doesn't matter if it ended up with 4.1m at the end of the week. And that 4.1m won't matter if it adds another 2 or 3 million further down the line.
 
lolly said:
It feels to me that quite a few dramas this year have performed poorly against expectations. But I wonder if our expectations are increasingly unrealistic.

I assume that at the end of the year the BBC will release iPlayer streaming info, and it will be interesting to see if that has continued to increase, and how those dramas fared.

We've only just watched The Woman In The Wall this week, and I'm sure other people are increasingly watching things much later than the week this chart captures. We haven't started Time yet, but we will watch it.

I still think the weekly chart has relevance, but for dramas particularly it realistically means less. Time actually only had around 1.8m viewers watching it live, but that doesn't matter if it ended up with 4.1m at the end of the week. And that 4.1m won't matter if it adds another 2 or 3 million further down the line.
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The last season of Time was 2021 and the first episode of that got over 7 million on your chart so it is a big drop but you are right things probably have changed a fair bit viewing wise even in the past 2 years.
 
I really do rue the day that BARB stopped making the 28 day figures publicly available.

Not that they would capture everything (my own viewing of The Woman In The Wall, for one), but would give a far better indication.

The Monday episode of News at Six had 3.433m live viewers, 376k people watching later that day, and 0k people watching after that day. Every episode of News at Six had 0k viewers after day of broadcast, as you'd probably expect.

Survivor on Saturday had 2.134m watching live, 471k watching later that same day, and another 473k watching later in the week.

Alan Carr's Picture Slam had 3.481m live, 547k same day and 132k later in the week.

Time had 1.841m live, 407k same day, 1.584m later in the week.

You can see how people choose to watch genres differently. Although Picture Slam narrowly beat Time narrowly after a week, I'm sure the 28 day figures would show that Time would beat it easily.

I'll break down the figures for the soaps in another post. I suspect that they do better than entertainment shows on catch up, but not as well as dramas.
 
I started watching Time and really enjoying it! Siobhan Finneran certainly doesn't go short of work!

I never watched the first series (never even heard of it till now) but will definitely watch
 
October 30 - November 5

01 Strictly Come Dancing 8.810m
02 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results 8.014m
03 The Great British Bake Off 6.320m
04 Planet Earth III 6.214m
05 The Long Shadow 5.659m
06 Shetland 5.604m
07 Coronation Street 4.679m
08 Emmerdale 4.309m
09 Have I Got News For You 4.233m
10 Ghosts 4.104m
11 EastEnders 3.832m
12 BBC News at Six 3.795m
13 All Creatures Great And Small 3.781m
14 Time 3.711m
15 Alan Carr's Picture Slam 3.672m
16 Payback 3.409m
17 Countryfile 3.272m
18 BBC Weekend News 3.188m
19 Masterchef: The Professionals 3.092m
20 The Voice 3.004m
 
Neither episode of Survivor made the top 50 individual shows of the week, so all I can say is that they got less than the #50 show, which had 2.792m. Antiques Roadshow (shunted to BBC2 to make way for it on BBC1) got 2.985m.

Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream down to 1.787m
 
Shetland is still doing pretty well, and on its 10th series and first with a new main detective.
 
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