TV Ratings 2023

None of the Love Island episodes feature in the Top 50 shows including platform data. The average without platform data is 2.265m, so if we assume the same 24% uplift I calculated last week based on the two shows we did have data for, that would give 2.809m - only very narrowly down on the first week. Considering the launch show inevitably had the strongest numbers, that would indicate it has stabilised pretty quickly.
 
The Brits was an absolutely appalling piece of television. So awful and cringe throughout.
 
January 30 - February 5

01 Happy Valley 11.075m
02 Death In Paradise 7.245m
03 Call The Midwife 6.989m
04 The Apprentice 6.579m
05 Silent Witness 6.040m
06 Vera 5.813m
07 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.747m
08 The Masked Singer 5.441m
09 Coronation Street 4.969m
10 Six Nations Championship: Scotland v England 4.544m
11 Emmerdale 4.436m
12 Dragons' Den 4.158m
13 BBC News at Six 4.150m
14 Countryfile 4.090m
15 Dancing On Ice 3.792m
16 Ant and Dec's Limitless Win 3.752m
17 EastEnders 3.686m
18 Would I Lie To You? 3.674m
19 BBC Weekend News 3.452m
20 The Chase 3.342m
 
One episode of Love Island did sneak into the Top 50 shows, at #50.

Using the same platform viewing for all the remaining shows, I'm estimating 2.830m - narrowly up on last week.
 
1.5 million on the previous week for Happy Valley and I don’t even think it was the finale episode! :o
 
@lolly is Waterloo Road flopping? I can’t recall seeing it on the chart? I haven’t watched any of it yet, but probably will at some point.
 
@lolly is Waterloo Road flopping? I can’t recall seeing it on the chart? I haven’t watched any of it yet, but probably will at some point.
Not seen anything about it, and BBC3 figures aren't released in the same way that ITV2 are.

A lot was made of its iPlayer streams when it was launched though, so I imagine we'll get some info about it at some point.
 
Not seen anything about it, and BBC3 figures aren't released in the same way that ITV2 are.

A lot was made of its iPlayer streams when it was launched though, so I imagine we'll get some info about it at some point.

Oh it is on BBC3? I thought it was BBC1 that broadcast it.
 
Still waiting for BARB to update with platform viewing. It doesn't seem to be consistently Mondays any more. In the meantime I missed this from the BBC Media Centre a few weeks back.


World Cup wins 2022 in record breaking year for BBC iPlayer​


BBC iPlayer has seen its best year ever, breaking 7 billion streams for the first time ever. 2022 grew 9 per cent on 2021, and ended the year with both the best month and best quarter iPlayer has ever seen, with 700 million streams for December and 2 billion streams between October – December.

The World Cup capped the year in spectacular fashion, streamed a huge 92 million times on iPlayer, while also reaching 38.8 million on BBC TV.

Other data revealed by the BBC today includes:

  • The return of Peaky Blinders was the top episode of the year, streamed 6.9 million times across the year, with over 55 million streams for the boxset
  • Other top boxsets of the year include Doctor Who (56m streams), Waterloo Road (2006-2015) (46m streams), and Death in Paradise (46m streams)
  • Sporting events were also among the most-watched programmes of the year, including Commonwealth Games (53m streams, plus reached 28.6 million on BBC TV) and Wimbledon (43m streams, plus reached 27.4 million on BBC TV)
  • New dramas dominate the most watched episodes per series of the year – with The Tourist, The Responder, SAS Rogue Heroes, Inside Man, Sherwood and This is Going to Hurt all making the top ten most streamed episodes
  • EastEnders enjoyed its best year ever on iPlayer, streamed 366 million times
Director of BBC iPlayer Dan McGolpin says: “2022 saw huge growth for BBC iPlayer, 7 billion streams is double where we were a few years ago. Alongside the big events like the World Cup and the outstanding coverage of the state funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, people arrived in their millions to watch an array of big drama boxsets including the final series of Peaky Blinders and a large number of brand new series such as The Tourist, The Responder and SAS Rogue Heroes. Over the last year we’ve added more choice than ever before in every genre, with plenty more in store for 2023.”

The most-watched programmes* across 2022:

RankProgrammeStreams
1FIFA World Cup 202292,267,000
2Doctor Who56,100,000
3Peaky Blinders55,609,000
4Commonwealth Games52,781,000
5Waterloo Road (2006-15)46,380,000
6Death in Paradise46,091,000
7Strictly Come Dancing44,909,000
8Silent Witness44,665,000
9Wimbledon42,678,000
10Match of the Day40,451,000

The top episodes per series in 2022:

RankProgrammesEpisodeStreams
1​
Peaky BlindersSeries 6 - Black Day
6,925,000​
2​
The TouristEpisode 1
6,428,000​
3​
The ResponderEpisode 1
6,164,000​
4​
FIFA World Cup 2022England v Iran
5,592,000​
5​
SAS Rogue HeroesEpisode 1
5,526,000​
6​
The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth IILondon
5,043,000​
7​
Inside ManEpisode 1
5,028,000​
8​
The ApprenticeSeries 16 - Cruise Ship
4,889,000​
9​
SherwoodEpisode 1
4,855,000​
10​
This Is Going To HurtEpisode 1
4,753,000​
* Excluding continuing series like EastEnders, news and children’s content
 
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Feb 6 - 12

01 Death In Paradise 6.891m
02 Call The Midwife 6.850m
03 The Apprentice 6.734m
04 The Gold 6.232m
05 Vera 5.857m
06 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 5.692m
07 The Masked Singer 5.511m
08 Coronation Street 5.035m
09 Antiques Roadshow 4.647m
10 Emmerdale 4.270m
11 BBC News at Six 4.228m
12 Countryfile 4.157m
13 Dragons' Den 3.968m
14 The Brit Awards 3.792m
15 Dancing On Ice 3.651m
16 EastEnders 3.619m
17 Six Nations Championship: England vs Italy 3.589m
18 Six Nations Championship: Italy vs France 3.522m
19 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.498m
20 Would I Lie To You? 3.412m
 
Clarkson's Farm season 2 on Amazon Prime also hit the chart. There were 6 episodes and only the first three of six made it, at #16, #27 and #40. The top episode had 4.258m.
 
Clarkson's Farm season 2 on Amazon Prime also hit the chart. There were 6 episodes and only the first three of six made it, at #16, #27 and #40. The top episode had 4.258m.

I heard a lot of people talking about the first season of this. I don’t think it would be for me.
 
Has anyone watched The Gold? That is pretty impressive figures for it.
 
No episodes of Love Island in the top 50, but using the calculation as last week gives 2.862m - again very narrowly up on last week.
 
February 13 - 19

01 Death In Paradise 7.095m
02 Vera 6.462m
03 The Apprentice 6.273m
04 The Masked Singer 5.743m
05 The Gold 4.969m
06 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 4.897m
07 Coronation Street 4.870m
08 Better 4.689m
09 Emmerdale 4.218m
10 BBC News at Six 3.999m
11 Dancing On Ice 3.907m
12 EastEnders 3.846m
13 Dragons' Den 3.824m
14 Countryfile 3.807m
15 BBC Weekend News 3.706m
16 Would I Lie To You? 3.464m
17 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.331m
18 Starstruck 3.289m
19 The Chase 3.168m
20 Match Of The Day 3.139m
 
Two Love Island shows made the top 50, but that seems more due to figures generally being down rather than an increasing audience, and indeed applying the same uplift as previous weeks gives 2.689m as an estimate, which would be the lowest week so far.
 
@FetchFugly have you watched The Gold? I watched the first episode when I was terribly hungover whilst on an Happy Valley comedown and got bored but may give it another try.
 
I did find the first episode of The Gold a little hard going, there seemed to be a lot of characters to keep track of as well. The last couple of episodes I have enjoyed more.
 
I just finished it and really enjoyed it. Lots of great characters, but I did struggle with who was who. Obviously Kenneth Noye is famous anyway and the key police officers/ protagonists were easy enough. Hugh Bonneville was good, but his accent did go back and forth between London and Lord Grantham. The two detectives were good, she was great and he was attractive in a young Kevin Webster kinda way.
 
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February 20 - 26

01 Beyond Paradise 7.564m
02 Call The Midwife 7.238m
03 Death In Paradise 7.167m
04 Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 6.373m
05 The Apprentice 6.007m
06 Coronation Street 4.779m
07 Endeavour 4.517m
08 Gogglebox 4.438m
09 Six Nations Rugby: Wales vs England 4.363m
10 Antiques Roadshow 4.334m
11 Emmerdale 4.244m
12 BBC News at Six 4.056m
13 Dragons' Den 3.776m
14 EastEnders 3.758m
15 Better 3.748m
16 Dancing On Ice 3.598m
17 Countryfile 3.492m
18 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.421m
19 The Gold 3.355m
20 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.355m
 
No episodes of Love Island in the top 50, but using the same % uplift as previous weeks, I'd estimate 2.608m - another drop and a further new low for the series.
 
Did anyone watch Better? I loved it up until the last episode…What the FUCK?
 
Sorry, I've been holding off waiting for BARB to update, but it hasn't all week. So this is excluding platform viewing.

February 27 - March 5

01 Beyond Paradise 6.924m
02 Unforgotten 6.287m
03 The Apprentice 5.899m
04 Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 5.441m
05 Endeavour 4.947m
06 Coronation Street 4.647m
07 Countryfile 4.547m
08 Antiques Roadshow 4.490m
09 BBC News at Six 4.151m
10 Emmerdale 4.118m
11 Gogglebox 4.065m
12 Dragons' Den 3.645m
13 Dancing On Ice 3.544m
14 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.531m
15 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.419m
16 BBC Weekend News 3.301m
17 Starstruck 3.188m
18 EastEnders 3.176m
19 FA Cup 3.115m
20 The Gold 3.030m
 
That is good for Unforgotten isn't it? Especially with the loss of the key character.
 
Did anyone watch Better? I loved it up until the last episode…What the FUCK?

I've only just finished it today. One of those programmes I kept on putting off but enjoyed when I eventually got round to watching.

That ending was weird. It felt kind of dreamlike and being left like that...
 
Sorry, I've been holding off waiting for BARB to update, but it hasn't all week. So this is excluding platform viewing.

February 27 - March 5

01 Beyond Paradise 6.924m
02 Unforgotten 6.287m
03 The Apprentice 5.899m
04 Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 5.441m
05 Endeavour 4.947m
06 Coronation Street 4.647m
07 Countryfile 4.547m
08 Antiques Roadshow 4.490m
09 BBC News at Six 4.151m
10 Emmerdale 4.118m
11 Gogglebox 4.065m
12 Dragons' Den 3.645m
13 Dancing On Ice 3.544m
14 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.531m
15 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.419m
16 BBC Weekend News 3.301m
17 Starstruck 3.188m
18 EastEnders 3.176m
19 FA Cup 3.115m
20 The Gold 3.030m
And it updated either yesterday or this morning. I'm posting it as I find it interesting how well certain shows do on platform viewing - and because I'd forgotten that only the BARB data includes viewing ahead of broadcast, even if on a TV. That's why The Gold and Better have had such a big bump. In the case of Better, it wasn't in the Top 20 last week and as the other website I use has already updated with w/e 12th March, the figure for last week is no longer available there. Figure in brackets is the difference from the first chart posted excluding platform/advance viewing.

February 27 - March 5

01 Beyond Paradise 7.149m (+0.225m)
02 Unforgotten 6.471m (+0.184m)
03 The Apprentice 6.215m (+0.316m)
04 Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 5.475m (+0.034m)
05 Endeavour 5.004m (+0.054m)
06 The Gold 4.918m (+1.888m)
07 Coronation Street 4.747m (+0.100m)
08 Countryfile 4.559m (+0.012m)
09 Antiques Roadshow 4.514m (+0.024m)
10 Emmerdale 4.202m (+0.084m)
11 BBC News at Six 4.168m (+0.017m)
12 Gogglebox 4.149m (+0.084m)
13 Dragons' Den 3.739m (+0.094m)
14 EastEnders 3.572m (+0.396m)
15 Better 3.610m (?)
16 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 3.587m (+0.056m)
17 Dancing On Ice 3.578m (+0.034m)
18 Celebrity Catchphrase 3.430m (+0.011m)
19 BBC Weekend News 3.313m (+0.012m)
20 FA Cup 3.233m (+0.118m)
 
For the first time in its winter run, not a single episode of Love Island made the top 50 including platform data - so I have nothing to base an estimate on.
 
For the first time in its winter run, not a single episode of Love Island made the top 50 including platform data - so I have nothing to base an estimate on.
Actually sorry, that's not quite true - although no episodes were in the top 50, I can still estimate based on the figures from the ITV2 chart. But whereas before the estimate was better informed because I could establish the exact platform viewing for at least one episode, now I can't. But the uplift has been similar each week I've done it, and using that, it would have around 2.4m - another new low.
 

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