TV Ratings 2024

The PHILIP SCHOFIELD STANS deserting Dancing On ice, I see

Rather upsettingly I've become hooked on it this year due to really fancying Miles Nazaire and Greg Rutherford, and it slotting quite neatly in to my Sunday evening ADMIN ROUTINE, but it is terrible. The gulf in quality between it and Strictly, considering they're basically the same show with a different temperature, is mad. And obviously Stephen Mulhern is an appalling addition.

That said, this weekend's edition was unexpectedly QUITE GOOD in no small part to Johnny Weir being a guest judge. If it somehow gets another series they should have him permanently on the panel over Ashley Banjo. Also one contestant fell over twice.
 
According to an article in the Daily Fail, Jayne and Chris are retiring from skating 'after the conclusion of the 2025 series', but not the show itself, so ITV probably have faith in the series.
 
Dancing On Ice average viewing figures

2006 9.833m
2007 8.972m
2008 9.346m
2009 9.625m
2010 8.862m
2011 8.352m
2012 8.053m
2013 6.679m
2014 6.392m
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2018 6.625m
2019 6.253m
2020 5.166m
2021 4.941m
2022 4.303m
2023 3.929m
2024 3.578m

Obviously only year to date for the current year, but don't expect that average to increase. In previous years the series has always had the highest figure for the launch show, then largely consistently dropped throughout the series, with only a relatively small increase for the finale. Last year, the three biggest episodes were the first three, and the finale was only the 6th highest ranked of the 9 shows. This series so far it's fallen week on week, to a new all time low this week. So I'm not quite sure what ITV have faith in.
 
lolly said:
Dancing On Ice average viewing figures

2006 9.833m
2007 8.972m
2008 9.346m
2009 9.625m
2010 8.862m
2011 8.352m
2012 8.053m
2013 6.679m
2014 6.392m
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2018 6.625m
2019 6.253m
2020 5.166m
2021 4.941m
2022 4.303m
2023 3.929m
2024 3.578m

Obviously only year to date for the current year, but don't expect that average to increase. In previous years the series has always had the highest figure for the launch show, then largely consistently dropped throughout the series, with only a relatively small increase for the finale. Last year, the three biggest episodes were the first three, and the finale was only the 6th highest ranked of the 9 shows. This series so far it's fallen week on week, to a new all time low this week. So I'm not quite sure what ITV have faith in.
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Yes, this is complete DEADWOOD and I think this season will likely be the last. i don’t have it on as background noise anymore and we all know I watch ANY OLD SHIT.
 
It's interesting that ITV decided to bin it after 2013 when popularity dropped (2014 was the All Star version, and it was announced it would be the last before it started), yet here they are flogging a dead horse a decade horse.

If it is true as @rhythmbandit has read that ITV are sticking with it for at least another year, I can only assume that they have committed a lot of money to the airfield studio they use, and presumably have Torvill and Dean locked into some sort of contract - and there's hardly any other use for them.
 
But then ITV are continuing to push The Voice to nationwide indifference with similar lack of success.

It'll be interesting to see how Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain's Got Talent fare in the next couple of months to see how two more of their longrunning successes perform this year.
 
And to account for largely falling viewing figures across the board, in 2019 (the furthest BARB allows you to search back), Dancing On Ice for the corresponding week to the chart I just published was #19. This year it was #37.
 
lolly said:
But then ITV are continuing to push The Voice to nationwide indifference with similar lack of success.

It'll be interesting to see how Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain's Got Talent fare in the next couple of months to see how two more of their longrunning successes perform this year.
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BGT has been declining year on year so I would be surprised if it didn’t follow that trajectory. The figures are still stellar enough comparing them to most other Saturday night shows but obviously low when comparing to its glory days.
 
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Finn said:
The PHILIP SCHOFIELD STANS deserting Dancing On ice, I see

Rather upsettingly I've become hooked on it this year due to really fancying Miles Nazaire and Greg Rutherford, and it slotting quite neatly in to my Sunday evening ADMIN ROUTINE, but it is terrible. The gulf in quality between it and Strictly, considering they're basically the same show with a different temperature, is mad. And obviously Stephen Mulhern is an appalling addition.

That said, this weekend's edition was unexpectedly QUITE GOOD in no small part to Johnny Weir being a guest judge. If it somehow gets another series they should have him permanently on the panel over Ashley Banjo. Also one contestant fell over twice.
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Johnny Weir was unsurprisingly a massive upgrade. I think he is back again this week.

It is all still very low rent but I do think this is a better series than most of the recent ones.
 
I'd need Jason Gardiner (ideally with new comedy hairpiece and teeth) being vile to Karen Barber to get me interested in the judges again.
 
After The Flood seems to have held up pretty well - has anyone seen it?
 
PercyPig said:
After The Flood seems to have held up pretty well - has anyone seen it?
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I'm watching the last episode now. Sophie Rundle is a good lead and Matt Stokoe is still attractive, however it is quite ludicrous. I mean, I have watched to the end but I wouldn't especially recommend it.
 
Thought I'd do a similar year by year comparison for The Masked Singer - so the ratings for the corresponding weeks in these years:

2020 - 5.676m
2021 - 8.437m
2022 - 6.652m
2023 - 5.441m
2024 - 4.902m
 
lolly said:
Thought I'd do a similar year by year comparison for The Masked Singer - so the ratings for the corresponding weeks in these years:

2020 - 5.676m
2021 - 8.437m
2022 - 6.652m
2023 - 5.441m
2024 - 4.902m
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I haven’t really watched this series as it’s something I like to watch live (well 30 minutes behind to miss the adverts) but I rarely catch up on it. It looks like it’s dying a death also.
 
And Call The Midwife

2019 - 8.915m
2020 - 7.973m
2021 - 8.086m*
2022 - 7.561m
2023 - 6.989m
2024 - 7.060m

* the 2021 series was broadcast from April - I assume delayed by COVID (?), so I've chosen the 5th episode of that series, as it was the fifth episode this year in the chart this week.
 

Barb releases Q4 2023 SVOD subscriptions data from its Establishment Survey Barb

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Barb has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 18.8m UK homes (65.4%) had access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in Q4 2023, a decrease from 19.3m (67.3%) in Q3 2023.

For the first time, Barb has shared the Netflix advertising tier estimate which is 1.45m (5.1% of homes). These homes form part of the overall Netflix figure below and are not in addition to it.

  • Netflix: 16.3m UK homes (56.7%) had access to Netflix in Q4 2023. Down from 16.7m (58.2%) in Q3.
  • Amazon Prime Video: 12.4m UK homes (43.1%) had access to Amazon in Q4 2023, down from fractionally under 13m (45.3%) in Q3.
  • Disney+: 7.3m UK homes (25.6%) had access to Disney+ in Q4, a decrease from 7.6m (26.7%) in Q3.
  • Apple TV+: 1.98m UK homes (6.9%) had access to Apple TV+ in Q4, also down from 2.2m (7.8%) in Q3.
  • Paramount+: 1.99m UK homes (6.9%)had access to Paramount+ in Q4, a small difference compared to 1.93m (6.7%) in Q3.
  • NOW: 1.82m UK homes (6.4%) had access to NOW in Q4, a small drop from 1.85m (6.5%) in Q3.
Doug Whelpdale, Head of Insight at Barb said:

“The latest data from our Establishment Survey show access to pure-play VOD services dropped slightly in Q4 last year. The proportion of homes with two or more services also slipped back compared to Q3, dipping from 13.3m (46.4%) to 12.8m (44.7%) in Q4. As they continue to battle it out in the UK viewing ecosystem, the festive period proved a competitive time. Families may have prioritised festive spending at a time when the broadcaster offering is strong. And mostly free.”
 
Mad that Paramount's so high? I've had it recently (cheapo 3 month deal) and it's shit.

I'm surprised NOW is so low when their shows are actually good and gets lots of buzz, but I guess there are still a few million more who access those via Sky? Despite there being v little need to have Sky in 2024
 
Yeah I wonder how many Paramount people are locked into a deal. I had one for a year which expired in that quarter - think I paid about £40 for it. Didn't watch anything other than Golden Girls and a few city documentaries.

It's also the quarter when I ditched Netflix, and that was because I was pissed off with being asked to authorise watching it at my mum's house or when I was out of the house somewhere else, not to do with festive belt tightening, so I'll be interested to see if it recovers in the next quarter.

It's 5 months since I ended Netflix now, and I fully intended that at some point I'll sign up again and then blitz it for a month or two and then cancel it again, but I don't think it will be in the next few months. There may be some things I'd like to see, but we've always got something else - we have Sky, and so it's not like we're ever looking for things to watch.
 
Paramount+ comes as standard with Sky Cinema subscriptions, though it still has to be redeemed/activated. Surely that must go some way to explaining how it's so high? I can't imagine almost two million people organically subscribing to watch Frasier and...err...?!
 
Disney+ is doing pretty well, but I do think it's suffering now from having launched during the pandemic when they were releasing all their new movies straight to streaming.

That obviously wasn't sustainable, but the release window they have now remains inconsistent. Movies seem to appear anywhere from 30 to 90 days after their cinema release, and it's never really clear whether there's a pattern or if it's just based on the box office returns. I'm sure it's just me, but despite the luxury of streaming on-demand, I still like to know a vague schedule of what will be on the platform and when. All the same, I can imagine subscriptions will peak when there's a BIG new animated movie (Frozen 3, Toy Story 5, Moana 2, etc.)
 
lolly said:
Thought I'd do a similar year by year comparison for The Masked Singer - so the ratings for the corresponding weeks in these years:

2020 - 5.676m
2021 - 8.437m
2022 - 6.652m
2023 - 5.441m
2024 - 4.902m
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Season 2 must be the Gabrielle effect. :angel:
 
lolly said:
Let's finally start a new one, as the chart I hopefully post tomorrow will be the first of the year.

And this is a 2024 show, as much as we've been discussing it in the 2023 thread.

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Did we get any more updates on this? Was this its peak?
 
Rita said:
Did we get any more updates on this? Was this its peak?
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No, I've not heard anything further - ITV seemed to want to shout about it (understandably) for a while, but nothing since. The 28 day catch up figures will be known now, so surprised they haven't made their way into the public.
 
lolly said:
No, I've not heard anything further - ITV seemed to want to shout about it (understandably) for a while, but nothing since. The 28 day catch up figures will be known now, so surprised they haven't made their way into the public.
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Yes I was interested to see what it was at now. It should comfortably be the most watched programme of the year even though we are only in February unless you have some sort of football tournament this year that England do well in.
 
lolly said:
No, I've not heard anything further - ITV seemed to want to shout about it (understandably) for a while, but nothing since. The 28 day catch up figures will be known now, so surprised they haven't made their way into the public.
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I know ITV hastily put on a repeat run in early January (I assume those figures would be included in the overall total). Though, if I recall, it didn't do major numbers, which is hardly surprising given how good the ITVX figures were and where most people were probably accessing it.
 
February 5 - 11

01 Death In Paradise 7.433m
02 Call The Midwife 7.117m
03 Trigger Point 6.662m
04 The Apprentice 6.319m
05 Silent Witness 6.207m
06 After The Flood 6.102m
07 Gladiators 5.834m
08 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.665m
09 Antiques Roadshow 4.839m
10 The Masked Singer 4.765m
11 Six Nations Championship: England vs Wales 4.341m
12 Coronation Street 4.301m
13 Dragons' Den 4.194m
14 Emmerdale 4.010m
15 BBC News at Six 3.989m
16 EastEnders 3.850m
17 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 3.735m
18 Would I Lie To You? 3.694m
19 Countryfile 3.586m
20 BBC Weekend News 3.303m
 
Compared to the same week last year. Probably not the best time to compare as they have been affected by the rugby, but that was also on at the same time last year, although I haven't looked deeply enough to see if all were equally affected.

Coronation Street down 14.6%
Emmerdale down 6.1%
EastEnders up 6.4%
 
Trigger Point is holding up well considering the whole season was all released after the first episode.

I found this season so much better than season 1.
 
I'll be interested to see how Breathtaking performs tonight for ITV. It's got a good pedigree in being co-written by Jed Mercurio (Line Of Duty, Bodyguard), and I've seen advertising selling it as 'untold true events' of the NHS, so I think they are trying to lean into the audience which took so well to Mr Bates. And I'm always happy for Joanne Froggatt to get another success under her belt.
 
lolly said:
I'll be interested to see how Breathtaking performs tonight for ITV. It's got a good pedigree in being co-written by Jed Mercurio (Line Of Duty, Bodyguard), and I've seen advertising selling it as 'untold true events' of the NHS, so I think they are trying to lean into the audience which took so well to Mr Bates. And I'm always happy for Joanne Froggatt to get another success under her belt.
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I enjoyed the first episode, and I suspect it will perform well; it's almost certainly going to have an impact on social media.

However, I think the key difference is Mr Bates told a story that many people had only been half-interested (if at all) in before. It created a new discussion. Breathtaking is surely just going to reiterate what most people already knew. Moreover, I'm just not sure I'm ready to get angry about the mismanagement of Covid again yet. It was an absolutely exhausting slog for most people through the pandemic, the lockdowns, etc. and Breathtaking feels almost a bit too soon to be triggering those feelings by using footage from the daily briefings.
 
lolly said:
I'll be interested to see how Breathtaking performs tonight for ITV. It's got a good pedigree in being co-written by Jed Mercurio (Line Of Duty, Bodyguard), and I've seen advertising selling it as 'untold true events' of the NHS, so I think they are trying to lean into the audience which took so well to Mr Bates. And I'm always happy for Joanne Froggatt to get another success under her belt.
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2.5m seems slightly underwhelming. Hopefully it will find a decent catch up audience.
 
lolly said:
It'll be interesting to see how Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain's Got Talent fare
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It seems like this could be the last series of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

The live entertainment aspect is certainly something that there should be more of on TV in general. 📺🪄 It's a bit of a shame how many of the popular 'tense' shows (Traitors, Masked Singer) are in fact filmed months earlier. 😅
 
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