TV Ratings 2021

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December 28 - January 3

01 Happy New Year Live! 9.922m
02 A Perfect Planet 7.002m
03 BBC News At Six 6.612m
04 The Masked Singer 6.557m
05 BBC News Special 6.537m
06 Coronation Street 6.514m
07 Antiques Roadshow 6.287m
08 Doctor Who 6.247m
09 The Serpent 6.046m
10 Emmerdale 5.627m
11 Countryfile 5.520m
12 Black Narcissus 5.475m
13 BBC Weekend News 5.056m
14 Beat The Chasers 4.992m
15 Mrs Brown's Boys 4.865m
16 The Repair Shop 4.819m
17 The Graham Norton Show 4.795m
18 Celebrity Mastermind 4.765m
19 The Voice 4.706m
20 EastEnders 4.661m
 
After a slow start The Masked Singer figures keep getting better and better. :disco:
 
Was Happy New Year Live! the English version of bringing the bells in on BBC Scotland or was it that programme with Paddy McGuinness on beforehand?
 
Was Happy New Year Live! the English version of bringing the bells in on BBC Scotland or was it that programme with Paddy McGuinness on beforehand?
I think that was the show covering midnight - presumably the Paddy McGuinness show failed to chart.
 
Just noticed the Great British Sewing Bee show from NYE didn't chart as well. That's a surprise, given how well the one the previous week did.
 
We had Susan Calman, Deacon Blue, and Amy Macdonald to welcome in the bells on BBC this year.
 
Any bets on when EastEnders will drop out the chart? Surely it's only a matter of time...
 
You would have thought figures would be up across the board considering everyone was staying in their own house alone this year. :eyes:
 
The soaps are all down year on year (as was the NYE spectacular :eyes:), but EastEnders again suffered most of the big three. I'll do a comparison post later, if I can be arsed.
 
The Serpent is another drama that had all episodes put up on iPlayer straight away so it will presumably be well down next week.

I've watched it all and enjoyed it, even if I thought that they could have cut some of the fat and reduced the episode count from eight.
 
Change from 2020 to 2021 (week on week)

Happy New Year show down 7.2%
Coronation Street down 3.6%
Doctor Who down 1%
Emmerdale down 7%
The Masked Singer up 8.7%
EastEnders down 15.2%
The Voice down 11.6%
Countryfile up 7.2%
The Graham Norton Show up 20.9%
 
Change from 2020 to 2021 (week on week)

Happy New Year show down 7.2%
Coronation Street down 3.6%
Doctor Who down 1%
Emmerdale down 7%
The Masked Singer up 8.7%
EastEnders down 15.2%
The Voice down 11.6%
Countryfile up 7.2%
The Graham Norton Show up 20.9%

I'm sure that was everyone tuning in for SEB's turn on Graham Norton this year.
 
When do we get the new season of Call The Midwife? Is it not usually on about now? I have not heard a PEEP.
 
Series 10 of Call the Midwife is expected to air later this year after production faced COVID-related delays last year.
 
January 4 - 10

01 The Prime Minister's Statement 14.329m
02 BBC News Special 11.052m
03 Death In Paradise 8.319m
04 The Masked Singer 7.270m
05 BBC News at Six 6.480m
06 Coronation Street 6.458m
07 Countryfile 6.324m
08 A Perfect Planet 6.175m
09 The FA Cup 5.687m
10 Emmerdale 5.661m
11 The Prime Minister's Statement: ITV News Special 5.450m
12 BBC News Special 5.212m
13 Celebrity Catchphrase 5.179m
14 Gogglebox 5.138m
15 The Chase 5.055m
16 The FA Cup 4.997m
17 The Voice 4.952m
18 EastEnders 4.913m*
19 Beat The Chasers 4.766m
20 BBC Weekend News 4.758m


* For the first time since doing this chart, an episode of EastEnders has dropped out of the Top 50 shows, so I don't know the figure for the lowest rated episode. Therefore I can't calculate an exact average. I've given the lowest episode the same figure as the lowest rated show in the top fifty and used this when calculating the average. So the figure above will be higher than the actual figure - but as it's an average I suspect it won't be so far from the correct one.
 
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BBC iPLAYER REVEAL BIGGEST BOXSETS OF 2020 AS IT ACHIEVES RECORD-BREAKING START TO 2021
The start of 2021 has seen viewing surge on BBC iPlayer, with the first full week (4 January - 10 January) breaking records as viewers streamed 162 million programmes.

Dan McGolpin, controller of BBC iPlayer, says: “More people than ever are using BBC iPlayer and they are using it more often, with a staggering 5.8 billion streams in 2020. They are finding more boxsets to choose from, a growing Ultra HD offer and a brand-new kids experience for our youngest viewers. The BBC iPlayer experience will keep getting better whatever your age and wherever you’re based, and we are already seeing 2021 breaking new records with viewers flocking to The Serpent, A Perfect Planet, the FA Cup and many more.”

The most popular boxsets in 2020 on BBC iPlayer:

  1. Normal People - 63,715,000 streams

  2. Killing Eve (Series 3) - 39,655,000 streams

  3. Masterchef (Series 16) - 22,206,000 streams

  4. Strictly Come Dancing (Series 18) - 20,769,000 streams

  5. The Split (Series 2) _ 19,058,000 streams

  6. Silent Witness (Series 23) - 17,252,000 streams

  7. The Secret She Keeps - 17,037,000 streams

  8. Life - 16,131,000 streams

  9. I May Destroy You - 16,127,000 streams

  10. This Country (Series 3) - 15,788,000 streams

  11. Masterchef: The Professionals (Series 13) - 15,290,000 streams

  12. The Nest - 14,684,000 streams

  13. Doctor Who (Series 12) - 13,422,000 streams

  14. Killing Eve (Series 1) - 13,348,000 streams

  15. Call The Midwife (Series 9) - 13,227,000 streams

  16. Killing Eve (Series 2) - 13,040,000 streams

  17. This Country (Series 1) - 12,397,000 streams

  18. Gavin And Stacey (Series 1) - 12,254,000 streams

  19. Gavin & Stacey (Series 2) - 11,937,000 streams

  20. Celebrity Masterchef (Series 15) - 11,241,000 streams
[Data: BBC Press]
 
@lolly does Casualty not make the chart at all these days or was it on a sabbatical?
It narrowly missed it with 4.483m this week.

It was off for a while (I assume covid related), but didn't it return not so long before Christmas? @Star will know.
 
It narrowly missed it with 4.483m this week.

It was off for a while (I assume covid related), but didn't it return not so long before Christmas? @Star will know.

It returned 3 weeks ago, that was the first episode post covid.
 
It narrowly missed it with 4.483m this week.

It was off for a while (I assume covid related), but didn't it return not so long before Christmas? @Star will know.

You wonder how long the BBC will carry on with it. I have always dipped in to Casualty now and again but haven’t watched for a while.
 
You wonder how long the BBC will carry on with it. I have always dipped in to Casualty now and again but haven’t watched for a while.

You should watch the first episode of this season from 3 weeks ago. It breaks your heart to know what it's like inside hospitals dealing with covid.
 
You wonder how long the BBC will carry on with it. I have always dipped in to Casualty now and again but haven’t watched for a while.

If Casualty is in question, surely so is EastEnders. It's not getting much of a higher figure now. And Casualty is pretty stable, whereas EastEnders is still falling.
 
You should watch the first episode of this season from 3 weeks ago. It breaks your heart to know what it's like inside hospitals dealing with covid.

I have it on series link, so will catch up on that one.
 
It is REALLY good.

I caught up with Des this week as well as The Pembrokeshire Murders and must say I didn’t see what all the fuss surrounding Des was. The Pembrokeshire Murders is so much better.
 
I thought it was okay, but nothing special. It's going to end up with fantastic figures after 28 days. Possibly the highest since Gavin and Stacey last year, excluding covid related news.
 
I did wonder if some viewers would jump ship as I thought the first episode of The Pembrokeshire Murders was really quite dull but the following two definitely picked up. Very impressive numbers though.
 
January 11 - 17

01 The Pembrokeshire Murders 9.314m
02 Death In Paradise 7.619m
03 Finding Alice 7.579m
04 The Masked Singer 7.288m
05 Coronation Street 6.486m
06 BBC News at Six 6.085m
07 Antiques Roadshow 6.042m
08 Dancing On Ice 6.010m
09 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 5.726m
10 The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching The Gameshow Killer 5.666m
11 A Perfect Planet 5.618m
12 Emmerdale 5.550m
13 Countryfile 5.334m
14 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.949m
15 The Voice 4.810m
16 Would I Lie To You? 4.614m
17 The Repair Shop 4.613m
18 The Chase 4.585m
19 EastEnders 4.582m
20 Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 4.510m
 
Not sure where that 11m viewers for Pembrokeshire Murders came from, unless the difference is explained by the couple of days after the 7 day period but before that tweet.
 
Despite the fall in viewers from last week, all four episodes of EastEnders were at least back in the top 50 programmes.
 
I know this isn't a general TV news thread, but I'll leave this here considering we don't seem to have started threads for it for the last few years

 

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