TV Ratings 2024

PercyPig said:
Do you have every week logged into an Excel workbook? Would be interesting to put it into chatgpt and see what analysis and trends it can find.
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Of course I don't. I shall do it with parchment, quill and abacus.
 
I would say this series of BGT felt, anecdotally, like a solid, if unremarkable one akin to The Apprentice. If they can find something that just settles into a pattern of pulling in 5 - 6 million viewers, that will do for ITV (it also benefitted the soaps having them back in their traditional 30-minute slots, which should certainly be something for them to think on).

I'm pretty sure I'd read that because they won't have Saturday Night Takeaway next year, ITV's current plan is to stretch BGT across those weeks as well. Rather than do more auditions, though, the obvious move would be to stretch the semis across five weeks instead of one.
 
June 3 - 9

01 Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate 5.370m
02 Have I Got News For You 4.515m
03 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.439m
04 Coronation Street 4.403m
05 Emmerdale 3.847m
06 Doctor Who 3.521m
07 EastEnders 3.356m
08 Election 2024 3.246m
09 BBC News at Six 3.223m
10 Antiques Roadshow 3.115m
11 International Football: England vs Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.035m
12 Casualty 3.013n
13 Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2.982m
14 Celebrity Gogglebox 2.943m
15 International Football: England vs Iceland 2.836m
16 BBC Weekend News 2.787m
17 Countryfile 2.778m
18 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 2.680m
19 BBC News at Ten 2.659m
20 Film: Darkest Hour 2.483m
 
Not all episodes of Love Island featured in the top 50 shows, and then there was the simulcast on ITV1 and 2 to consider as well, which I'll do a little later as busy now. I think it's likely it will sneak into the bottom of the chart, though.
 
lolly said:
Not all episodes of Love Island featured in the top 50 shows, and then there was the simulcast on ITV1 and 2 to consider as well, which I'll do a little later as busy now. I think it's likely it will sneak into the bottom of the chart, though.
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All episodes of Love Island did make the top 50 except the launch show - no doubt because that was split between ITV1 and ITV2. Unfortunately Thinkbox (which breaks commercial stations by station) hasn't updated yet, so I can't make an estimate based on the info yet.

Without that launch episode, it has an average of 2.497m, so presumably the average with it will be a little higher than that.
 
Realised today I didn't do last week - I think it was a couple of days late. I originally checked but then forgot all about it. Probably wouldn't have got away with it if @Rita was around. Where IS she?
 
lolly said:
Realised today I didn't do last week - I think it was a couple of days late. I originally checked but then forgot all about it. Probably wouldn't have got away with it if @Rita was around. Where IS she?
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She’s been away for 3 weeks!
 
June 10 - 16

01 Euro 2024: Serbia vs England 10.770m
02 UEFA European Football Championship: Germany vs Scotland 6.855m
03 Coronation Street 4.492m
04 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.363m
05 UEFA European Football Championship: Spain vs Croatia 4.315m
06 Euro 2024: Italy vs Albania 4.217m
07 Emmerdale 3.831m
08 UEFA European Football Championship: Slovenia vs Denmark 3.715m
09 Trooping The Colour 3.714m
10 Bridgerton (episodes 5 - 8) 3.592m
11 EastEnders 3.522m
12 Doctor Who 3.496m
13 Euro 2024: Poland vs Netherlands 3.351m
14 BBC Weekend News 3.255m
15 UEFA European Football Championship: Hungary vs Switzerland 3.169m
16 BBC News at Six 3.128m
17 Long Lost Family Special: Born Without Trace 2.870m
18 Celebrity Gogglebox 2.697m
19 Countryfile 2.687m
20 The Martin Lewis Money Show Live 2.591m
 
June 17 - 23

01 Euro 2024: Denmark vs England 8.452m
02 Euro 2024: Scotland vs Switzerland 7.218m
03 Euro 2024: Scotland vs Hungary 6.846m
04 Euro 2024: Portugal vs Czech Republic 5.954m
05 Euro 2024: Netherlands vs France 5.505m
06 UEFA European Football Championship: Austria vs France 5.441m
07 UEFA European Football Championship: Spain vs Italy 4.649m
08 UEFA European Football Championship: Belgium vs Romania 4.274m
09 Coronation Street 4.086m
10 Euro 2024: Germany vs Hungary 3.974m
11 Emmerdale 3.728m
12 Doctor Who 3.694m
13 BBC News At Six 3.585m
14 UEFA European Football Championship: Turkey vs Portugal 3.583m
15 The Great British Sewing Bee 3.426m
16 Euro 2024: Turkey vs Georgia 3.397m
17 UEFA European Football Championship: Belgium vs Slovakia 3.334m
18 EastEnders 2.881m
19 BBC News at Ten 2.837m
20 Celebrity Gogglebox 2.771m
 
It still amazes me how lazy viewers are. Look at EastEnders and Sewing Bee losing a quarter of their audiences because they were shunted to different channels for episodes. Despite being available on iPlayer, people just don't bother. EastEnders wouldn't have been in the top 20 had one of its episodes not been on BBC1 to keep it reasonably buoyant.
 
To be honest, much as I enjoy Sewing Bee, even I couldn't be bothered to chase around after it moved day and channel. Our series link failed as a result and we just skipped the episode.
 
I don't have it on series link and never watch it live, so it makes no difference to me. I rarely watch it on the day it's broadcast (Tuesday?), but invariably pick it up later in the week.
 
It's moved to Wednesdays now, and it looks like they're keeping it there (albeit it's on BBC2 this week and BBC1 next). I get that sport is going to disrupt the schedules and everything is available on-demand so it really shouldn't matter...but evidently, it does, as you've highlighted, so I don't really get why the BBC keep blindly walking into these situations knowing how much of an audience they stand to lose.

With soaps it's unavoidable because they're on all year round, but in the case of something like Sewing Bee, why not just start the series several weeks earlier so that it doesn't clash at all?
 
June 24 - 30

01 UEFA European Football Championship: England vs Slovakia 11.797m
02 UEFA European Football Championship: England vs Slovenia 9.665m
03 UEFA European Football Championship: Spain vs Georgia 6.959m
04 UEFA European Football Championship: Germany vs Denmark 4.929m
05 Euro 2024: Croatia vs Italy 4.670m
06 UEFA European Football Championship: Georgia vs Portugal 4.667m
07 Euro 2024: Switzerland vs Italy 4.381m
08 Coronation Street 4.184m
09 Emmerdale 3.784m
10 Glastonbury: Coldplay 3.506m
11 The Great British Sewing Bee 3.502m
12 Douglas Is Cancelled 3.310m
13 Euro 2024: Ukraine vs Belgium 3.003m
14 EastEnders 2.993m
15 Election 2024 2.936m
16 Antiques Roadshow 2.889m
17 BBC News at Six 2.813m
18 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 2.631m
19 Celebrity Gogglebox 2.558m
20 Euro 2024: France vs Poland 2.486m
 
EastEnders rebounds slightly, no doubt due to one more of its episodes being on BBC1 this week - although it would seem more viewers were up to speed, as there's only a little difference between the lowest BBC1 episode (3.018m) and the highest BBC2 one (2.937m). Last week there was nearly a 0.9m difference.

Sewing Bee was back on BBC1 though - but it was directly against one of the England matches on ITV, as was one of the EastEnders episodes.

All episodes of Love Island returned to the chart this week, with an average of 2.333m.
 
Slave said:
With soaps it's unavoidable because they're on all year round, but in the case of something like Sewing Bee, why not just start the series several weeks earlier so that it doesn't clash at all?
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Because there was probably something else in its slot then? I imagine there are unmovable events dotted around the year (mostly BLOODY SPORT) and so many long runs of different series to be scheduled across it that it just make this kind of scheduling nonsense unavoidable? Otherwise it wouldn't happen, would it

And if Sewing Bee had come earlier to protect it from this situation, then it would have meant the same fate instead for Race Across The World / Interior Design Masters / The Apprentice / The Traitors / etc instead

I guess the alternative would be to have some/more of these fact-ents-competition shows running at the same time as each other, which seems a bigger risk when they probably all benefit from having their moment.
 
Remember that these are only the 7 day ratings. These days, the BBC is more interested in 28 day ratings and beyond, especially as they don't have to worry about spend from advertisers. Indeed, the BBC have access to viewing figures from BARB that run to many months after their first TV showing.

Space Babies, the first episode of the most recent series of Doctor Who, is now up to well over 6 million viewers.
 
Nancy said:
Remember that these are only the 7 day ratings. These days, the BBC is more interested in 28 day ratings and beyond, especially as they don't have to worry about spend from advertisers. Indeed, the BBC have access to viewing figures from BARB that run to many months after their first TV showing.

Space Babies, the first episode of the most recent series of Doctor Who, is now up to well over 6 million viewers.
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That's true, but it's worth remembering that catch up viewing doesn't affect all programmes equally. Drama series and one off dramas tend to do a lot better than soaps, entertainment and event shows. So it still matters (and as time goes on, increasingly so) but certainly isn't everything.
 
Finn said:
Because there was probably something else in its slot then? I imagine there are unmovable events dotted around the year (mostly BLOODY SPORT) and so many long runs of different series to be scheduled across it that it just make this kind of scheduling nonsense unavoidable? Otherwise it wouldn't happen, would it

And if Sewing Bee had come earlier to protect it from this situation, then it would have meant the same fate instead for Race Across The World / Interior Design Masters / The Apprentice / The Traitors / etc instead

I guess the alternative would be to have some/more of these fact-ents-competition shows running at the same time as each other, which seems a bigger risk when they probably all benefit from having their moment.
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I get all of that (although, checking the schedules, Sewing Bee could only have started a week earlier in the same slot due to BLOODY EUROVISION). But it's a rather depressing indictment of where we're at if everything with a remotely similar audience has to be stripped across the entire year, and moving one means moving everything else so there's no overlap whatsoever.
 
July 1 - 7

01 Euro 2024: England vs Switzerland 11.204m
02 Euro 2024: Portugal vs France 6.459m
03 Euro 2024: Portugal vs Slovenia 6.416m
04 UEFA European Football Championship: Spain vs Germany 5.648m
05 UEFA European Football Championship: Netherlands vs Turkey 4.886m
06 UEFA European Football Championship: Austria vs Turkey 4.630m
07 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.134m
08 Coronation Street 4.047m
09 UEFA European Football Championship: France vs Belgium 3.898m
10 Emmerdale 3.762m
11 Euro 2024: Romania vs Netherlands 3.741m
12 The Turkish Detective 3.437m
13 BBC Weekend News 3.428m
13 Wimbledon (Thursday 7pm) 3.245m
14 Election 2024 3.014m
15 BBC News at Six 2.901m
16 BBC News at Ten 2.857m
17 EastEnders 2.809m
18 Wimbledon (Sunday 12.30pm) 2.662m
19 Douglas Is Cancelled 2.512m
20 Love Island 2.465m
 
It's interesting (to me, at least) that of all the soaps that got moved around during the Euros, EastEnders seemed to suffer the most. In principle, their schedule changed the least because they already have an established Mon - Thurs iPlayer drop. Yet, Emmerdale, in particular, held up remarkably well despite being shunted around (some episodes were cancelled last minute because matches went to extra time) and releasing to ITVX early.
 
July 8 - 14

01 Euro 2024: Spain vs England 15.835m*
02 UEFA European Football Championship: Netherlands vs England 13.223m
03 Euro 2024: Spain vs France 8.814m
04 Wimbledon: Men's Final 4.873m
05 Coronation Street 4.132m
06 Emmerdale 3.607m
07 BBC Weekend News 3.373m
08 The Great British Sewing Bee 3.367m
09 Countryfile 3.340m
10 EastEnders 3.177m
11 BBC News at Six 3.097m
12 BBC News at Ten 2.857m
13 High Country 2.824m
14 Wimbledon (Friday 7pm) 2.821m
15 Celebrity Gogglebox 2.817m
16 Long Lost Family 2.797m
17 Wimbledon (Monday 7pm) 2.480m
18 Casualty 2.465m
19 Wimbledon: Women's Final 2.449m
20 Love Island 2.411m


*Euro Final 11.703m BBC1, 4.132m ITV1
 
High Country feels like a drama bought in for the BBC4 international slot and upgraded to BBC1, so that is a very decent number.

How is the second season of Changing Ends doing on ITV1?
 
Yes pleasantly surprised High County is making the chart
 
FetchFugly said:
High Country feels like a drama bought in for the BBC4 international slot and upgraded to BBC1, so that is a very decent number.

How is the second season of Changing Ends doing on ITV1?
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1.328m.
 
lolly said:
July 8 - 14

01 Euro 2024: Spain vs England 15.835m*

*Euro Final 11.703m BBC1, 4.132m ITV1
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That's a chunk lower than other finals/big matches for the England men's team, right?

Are we all just a BIT TOO USED to England doing well (but not winning) now?
 
Finn said:
That's a chunk lower than other finals/big matches for the England men's team, right?

Are we all just a BIT TOO USED to England doing well (but not winning) now?
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Maybe, the 2021 final got 29m (!), then the World Cup quarter-final got 16m.
 
Rita said:
Wow Love Island is SLAYING again. I have missed most of it due to being out of the country but GO GIRL GO. :disco:
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I've stopped watching until I can just skip through it all for the final, but it's been a very good season. Also, if you've been away - great to have you back!
 
Just on the subject of DR WHO in the Strictly thread it got me wondering if the series ratings picked up as they went on?
 
Rita said:
Just on the subject of DR WHO in the Strictly thread it got me wondering if the series ratings picked up as they went on?
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Every episode has got to over 4 million viewers in terms of overall reach, which for the time of year it was broadcast is decent.

Plus every episode will continue to attract viewers on the iPlayer until kingdom come. Space Babies is at well over 6 million viewers now, for example.

Most episodes finished well within the top 20 for the week (different from Lolly's chart as it includes multiple episodes of the same programme).
 
Nancy said:
Every episode has got to over 4 million viewers in terms of overall reach, which for the time of year it was broadcast is decent.

Plus every episode will continue to attract viewers on the iPlayer until kingdom come. Space Babies is at well over 6 million viewers now, for example.

Most episodes finished well within the top 20 for the week (different from Lolly's chart as it includes multiple episodes of the same programme).
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Was it broadcasted at a different time of year from usual then? It is a particularly low figure for such a well established probably not particularly cheap to make tv programme no matter what way you dress it up, surely?

If BGT, The Apprentice, Love Island and many, many more programmes are measured against their previous success I would say Dr Who is fair game too
 
Rita said:
Was it broadcasted at a different time of year from usual then? It is a particularly low figure for such a well established probably not particularly cheap to make tv programme no matter what way you dress it up, surely?

If BGT, The Apprentice, Love Island and many, many more programmes are measured against their previous success I would say Dr Who is fair game too
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We've never had a run that starts mid-May before.

The last regular run of episodes was in November / December 2021.

You have to go back seven years to 2017 for the last time that Doctor Who aired in a similar time of year.
 
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