TV Ratings 2025

It drives me up the wall that Destination X is doing well enough to almost certainly get a second season when Survivor was such an unmitigated disaster in the ratings. What is wrong with British viewers??
 
Destination X series 2 has already been commissioned 'according to reports'. I've not seen anything official yet.

I think there's probably a whole host of reasons why Survivor flopped. I'm not convinced that trying to reboot a series which failed originally was ever an entirely good idea - or at least made criticism a lot easier if it didn't succeed immediately.

But had they learned from what had made the best seasons internationally since its first run, and cast players who knew the game and wanted to play it, it could still have been compelling TV and had a chance at becoming a hit. But the casting was royally fucked up with boring players who had seemingly never watched it before.

The scheduling didn’t help (it should have been a midweek 9pm show, not following Strictly on a Saturday), and I'm not entirely convinced Joel Dommett was the best fit either.
 
Rita said:
Will ratings ever improve or are these paltry figures the new normal? 😢
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I think they'll get WORSE

It won't even just be the streaming TV services that cannibalise them. I think "TV" overall will decline - so much of the younger generation are getting their entertainment solely from Twitch and YouTube instead.
 
lolly said:
I think there's probably a whole host of reasons why Survivor flopped. I'm not convinced that trying to reboot a series which failed originally was ever an entirely good idea - or at least made criticism a lot easier if it didn't succeed immediately.
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Well it worked brilliantly in Australia rebooting their failed first two seasons - but the main difference is that they show US survivor over there so they were used to the format generally.

Joel was a TERRIBLE fit, agreed!!
 
August 11 - 17

01 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.219m
02 Ridley 3.798m
03 Coronation Street 3.576m
04 Emmerdale 3.353m
05 EastEnders 3.147m
06 Antiques Roadshow 3.061m
07 Destination X 3.024m
08 BBC News at Six 2.830m
09 Parenthood 2.820m
10 Match Of The Day 2.744m
11 Countryfile 2.569m
12 Casualty 2.506m
13 BBC News at Ten 2.401m
14 Annika 2.395m
15 Mrs Brown's Boys 2.312m
16 The Repair Shop 2.243m
17The 1% Club 2.221m
18 Only Connect 2.216m
19 Fake Or Fortune? 2.166m
20 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 2.132m
 
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Looking good that Destination X will get a second series (unless it's already been renewed)?

Has Fortune Hotel made the top 20 once? I think it will get cancelled.
 
No, and not particularly close to it, either. It averaged 1.306m in the week above.
 
Never have I been so happy for a show’s viewing figures to fall off a cliff so much as Mrs Brown’s Boys. Truly one of the most abhorrent TV shows of all time.
 
I made a mistake in that chart and have edited it. I originally included In Flight thinking it only had one episode, whereas it was three across the week. It dropped off a lot after the first and so based on average didn't chart.
 
In Flight was excellent nonsense! Kept me interested the whole way through as didn’t know what was going to happen next. Katherine Kelly is always fantastic too.
 
Kala said:
Never have I been so happy for a show’s viewing figures to fall off a cliff so much as Mrs Brown’s Boys. Truly one of the most abhorrent TV shows of all time.
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Is Agnes DEAD? 🙏
 
Kala said:
Never have I been so happy for a show’s viewing figures to fall off a cliff so much as Mrs Brown’s Boys. Truly one of the most abhorrent TV shows of all time.
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The depressing thing is it still remains one of the top performing comedies on the BBC, even if it has fallen considerably. Amandaland is the only comedy recently I can remember performing significantly better.
 
Ridley looks like it is taking over the Vera slot for ITV. I haven’t watched yet.
 
lolly said:
The depressing thing is it still remains one of the top performing comedies on the BBC, even if it has fallen considerably. Amandaland is the only comedy recently I can remember performing significantly better.
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It’s not as if there isn’t decent comedy on the BBC: Mandy, Alma’s Not Normal, Two Doors Down - but a lot of them are niche. To get the numbers they have to appeal to the masses - i.e. be shite.
 
Rita said:
Ridley looks like it is taking over the Vera slot for ITV. I haven’t watched yet.
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I've watched all four of the recent run. I thought two were good stories, (I think the second and fourth), and the other two very average.

But it's hard to care about any of the characters. I wouldn't seek it out if I wasn't told we were watching it that night with dinner and could be arsed to object. It's just not compelling TV like a lot of the best drama is.
 
lolly said:
August 11 - 17

01 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.219m
02 Ridley 3.798m
03 Coronation Street 3.576m
04 Emmerdale 3.353m
05 EastEnders 3.147m
06 Antiques Roadshow 3.061m
07 Destination X 3.024m
08 BBC News at Six 2.830m
09 Parenthood 2.820m
10 Match Of The Day 2.744m
11 Countryfile 2.569m
12 Casualty 2.506m
13 BBC News at Ten 2.401m
14 Annika 2.395m
15 Mrs Brown's Boys 2.312m
16 The Repair Shop 2.243m
17The 1% Club 2.221m
18 Only Connect 2.216m
19 Fake Or Fortune? 2.166m
20 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 2.132m
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How many of this Top 20 have people actually watched?

For me it's only two - and of those, Ridley I watched the week after, so wouldn't be captured in this data. The only show I did watch which would have been counted is Only Connect.
 
lolly said:
I've watched all four of the recent run. I thought two were good stories, (I think the second and fourth), and the other two very average.

But it's hard to care about any of the characters. I wouldn't seek it out if I wasn't told we were watching it that night with dinner and could be arsed to object. It's just not compelling TV like a lot of the best drama is.
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Yeah, it doesn’t draw me in. I always find something else to watch instead, rather than give it a go.
 
lolly said:
How many of this Top 20 have people actually watched?

For me it's only two - and of those, Ridley I watched the week after, so wouldn't be captured in this data. The only show I did watch which would have been counted is Only Connect.
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The 3 soaps and I think I may have caught part of Michael McIntyre’s Big Show if it was the one with Rylan and Alison Hammond.
 
The 1% Club seems to be dropping too. Is it repeats or do they just make more of them? It started by only being a season a year but now it feels like it’s on all the time.
 
August 18 - 24

01 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.407m
02 Ridley 3.933m
03 Coronation Street 3.684m
04 King & Conqueror 3.629m
05 Emmerdale 3.548m
06 Antiques Roadshow 3.401m
07 Destination X 3.302m
08 EastEnders 3.230m
09 BBC News at Six 3.013m
10 Parenthood 2.783m
11 Hostage 2.595m
12 Casualty 2.535m
13 Annika 2.530m
14 Match Of The Day 2.521m
15 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 2.477m
16 BBC News at Ten 2.406m
17 The Repair Shop 2.388m
18 Countryfile 2.362m
19 The Hit List 2.338m
20 Masterchef 2.294m
 
Is Annika actually NEW NEW - I know that was the Nichola Walker series that was on other platforms in the earlier series' before
 
It's the (second) series previously broadcast on Alibi in 2023, I believe.
 
Fair one to Destination X. Didn’t watch anything beyond Ep 3 but maybe people like being ABSOLUTELY BAFFLED (see Only Connect)
 
August 25 - 31

01 Film: The Thursday Murder Club 6.583m
02 I Fought The Law 4.276m
03 The Great British Sewing Bee 4.241m
04 Coronation Street 3.636m
05 Ridley 3.571m
06 Destination X 3.520m
07 Emmerdale 3.452m
08 Antiques Roadshow 3.384m
09 EastEnders 3.146m
10 BBC News at Six 2.866m
11 Match Of The Day 2.751m
12 Casualty 2.664m
13 King & Conqueror 2.549m
14 Countryfile 2.541m
15 Parenthood 2.529m
16 Annika 2.514m
17 Michael McIntyre's Big Show 2.504m
18 Mrs Brown's Boys 2.402m
19 The Repair Shop 2.272m
20 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2.259m
 
Did anyone else catch I Fought The Law with Sheridan? I thought it was brilliant.
 
That's a big number for The Thursday Murder Club. It was alright but I wanted it to be a bit funnier.

Rita said:
Did anyone else catch I Fought The Law with Sheridan? I thought it was brilliant.
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I have one episode left and she's been excellent so far.
 
King & Conqueror managed to lose over a million viewers in a week I see. I enjoyed it but I am not entirely surprised.
 
Nope, and something strange is going on, as BARB seems to have deleted the figures for the week before as well.
 
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