W6: Official Weekly Ratings Roundup (06 Feb 2023 - 12 Feb 2023)
Official Ratings: 6 Feb 2023 - 12 Feb 2023
This week, a new show took the top spot, but the top spot drops to lows that haven't been seen for a while. The Gold debuts on BBC One to some solid audiences, and Love Island is building.
DISCLAIMER: All sources used in this post are linked at the bottom. For any further information, most data will be found amidst these sources. Some topical jargon will also be found alongside these sources. The figures mentioned in this article include the usual platform data (those watching on tablets, phones & PC's) and pre-transmission data (those who watched the series or show before its first airing as part of the likes of a boxset) if it is applicable. Any data labelled with a * symbol means that this data is not included, and is just regular TV live viewing & catch-up alone.
With the loss of Happy Valley, a new show had to take first place, and this week it wound up being Death in Paradise with 6.89m viewers. This figure is a low for the series, and shows a drop-off on last week by 360k, but it is strong enough to keep it in first place. Having said that, second place show Call the Midwife was only 0.04m behind with 6.85m (down 140k). It was, once again, a BBC dominated top five. Do the BBC dramas just catch an audience like no other station can? The other top show, taking over the prestigious 9PM slot on a Sunday night was The Gold. The thriller pulled in 6.23m official data from BARB shows. It was the 2nd most-watched show of the night, just behind the aforementioned Sunday night staple, Call the Midwife. This 6.2M audience also shows some significant catch-up figures, rising over 2m on its overnight audience of 4.05m (data released by Digital I shows).
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| Promotional Image for 'The Gold'. SOURCE: BBC iPlayer |
ITV1's best offering this week was the usual suspect, Vera. The crime drama managed to reach 5.86m viewers this week, showing a gentle rise closer to the 5.9m the show has achieved a few times already. The nearest competitor was The Masked Singer which brought in 5.51m viewers (up 70k). The Saturday night competition continued well, but it was Michael McIntyre's Big Show which continued its winning streak, with 5.69m watching. The gap between the two has narrowed once again since the BBC show slipped slightly by 50k. With the final of the masked singing show being the next instalment, perhaps it can end on a win?!
Elsewhere on ITV1, Saturday night brought us The BRIT Awards. The spectacle entertained an official audience of 3.79m, and this puts it considerably ahead of last year where the show barely scraped 3m viewers. Dancing On Ice took another slight dip, pulling in 3.65m viewers, for a new series low (down 140k). ITV1's drama Maternal is struggling under the weight of such heavy alternative dramas. The series only managed 1.95m* this week, but it is still ahead of Ramsey's Next Level Chef which cooked up 1.45m* viewers according to data from Thinkbox. The former show is available as a boxset.
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| Logo for the 2023 BRIT Awards SOURCE: The O2 |
Moving away from the top two channels, brings us to Channel 4 & Channel 5. The usual top performer on C4, The Great Pottery Throwdown, took the top spot once again with 2.37m* viewers, slipping 190k on last week's inflated figure. SAS: Who Dares Wins is holding on to its audience well, sticking with 1.45m* viewers, which shows rarely manage to do, and it's only a drop-off of 3.3% from its opening figure. Elsewhere, daily editions of A New Life in the Sun are performing quite nicely, averaging around 720k* for its 4PM start-time. Another show that's holding on to viewers nicely is Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples, but likely not as solid as they'd hope with 637k*.
Channel 5 saw its newest drama The Catch make a run for it against all other offerings, pulling in 2.30m* viewers, marking a rise on episode 2's figures, and only 340k down on the show's opening rating. It marks a bigger lead on top-performer Madame Blanc which entertained a reduced audience of 1.92m*. Stephen Fry's newest series, Dinosaurs With Stephen Fry didn't quite obliterate the charts, managing only 1.24m* viewers, despite some heavy work to bring the show to life. The show which aired straight after the documentary series, 22 Kids & Counting, performed slightly better with 1.26m* watching the Radford's. Channel 5 also decided to air the first episode of Yellowstone prequel series, 1923 at 10PM on the 9th; it managed only 612k* despite plenty of advertisement. This made it the channel's 22nd most-watched show, and 4th for the day.
Love Island saw some improvement, with Monday 6th's episode pulling in 3.01m viewers, closing the gap between the series high that came from the opening episode. It continues to be ITV2's most-watched series by some distance. The channel's best-performer outside of the sun-kissed reality show being an airing of Back to the Future II which took 442k* of us on a journey through time.
And with that, we have seen ourselves through another week of data. Love Island is slowly picking up its audience once again, but are the highs of well-over 5m now firmly a thing of the past? The Gold made a very solid debut, but can it hold on to its audience? Another week next week, and new shows like Starstruck are wracking up viewers. With that, feel free to share your thoughts with me by commenting below or on Twitter/Instagram. If you want to work with me, or have specific requests, I am available for work at: ratingsuk@outlook.com or you can message me on Twitter/Instagram.
Thanks for reading.
TOPICAL JARGON:
Overnight Figure: This is those who watched live or on the same day before 2AM.
Audience Share: This is the percent of the overall audience a given show had at the time of airing. Sometimes, it may say commercial share which is the share it had across channels with advertisements only.
VOSDAL: This stands for 'Viewing On Same Day As Live' which makes up part of the overnight figure, but it is those who did not watch the programme live yet did watch within the same day or before 2AM.
Platform Data: This is those who caught up on alternative screens such as PC's, phones or tablets. This data is used for most shows in this report, unless highlighted with a * symbol.
Pre-Transmission Data: This figure is usually assigned to shows that drop a boxset before the initial airing of the episode in question, so will already have an audience before the first live airing of a given show. Few shows qualify for this data, however, but was available for figures applicable shows in this post unless labelled with a * symbol.
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