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TV ratings
July 2024
England’s Euro 2024 defeat to Spain watched by peak TV audience of 23.8m
England’s Euro 2024 semi-final win is most-watched programme this year
May 2024
Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023
Saturday night’s final was watched by average of 7.64m as Britain’s entry, Olly Alexander, finished in 18th place
April 2024
Women’s NCAA title game was most watched basketball broadcast since 2019
The South Carolina-Iowa title game averaged 18.7m viewers on ABC and ESPN, making it the most watched basketball game since 2019
March 2024
‘We dialled up the superhero’: how Gladiators became the BBC’s biggest entertainment hit in years
ITV Oscars coverage secures viewers – and criticism
December 2023
King Charles’s Christmas message rules TV ratings, with 5.9m viewers
BBC showed nine out of 10 most popular shows, according to overnight data, with Strictly and Doctor Who Christmas special coming third
May 2023
King Charles’s coronation watched by peak TV audience of 20m
Event was most watched broadcast of year but audience smaller than 29m who watched Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
March 2023
Oscars TV ratings improve – to third worst ever
This year’s Academy Awards with Jimmy Kimmel at the helm drew an average TV audience of 18.7m – and a bigger share of younger viewers
February 2023
Happy Valley finale is most-watched TV programme of year
Figures show BBC can still outdo streaming services, but search is now on for its next mega-hit
October 2022
Netflix to reveal for first time how many people watch its shows in the UK
Streaming service’s decision to sign up to independent ratings agency is world first and will give insight into its cultural power
September 2022
More than 29m people in UK watched Queen’s funeral, TV data shows
Figure is fewer than 31m who watched Euro 2020 final, and peaked at 19.5m viewers on BBC One
August 2022
England’s Euros triumph draws record TV audience of 17m
Audience peaked at 17.4 million viewers, making it the biggest UK television event of the year to date
June 2022
Jubilee TV viewing figures down on previous royal occasions
Peak audience of 7.5 million people watched the BBC’s trooping the colour broadcast on Thursday
October 2021
TechScape newsletter
TechScape: From Friends to Squid Game – why Netflix viewing figures matter
Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: the problem with the streaming company’s outlandish claims
July 2021
Tokyo Olympics: US TV audience for opening ceremony falls to 33-year low
Euro 2020 final attracts estimated 31 million TV audience in UK
June 2021
Love Island premiere watched by smallest audience since 2017
ITV2 show attracted average of 2.47m viewers on launch night, with competition from Euro 2020 and Wimbledon
April 2021
Lockdown culture
Oscars 2021: looming TV ratings disaster could be calamitous for Academy
The starry telecast keeps the Academy afloat – but plunging viewers suggest the institution is out of sync with the public
February 2021
More than 8m people tune in to final of ITV's The Masked Singer
Final of celebrity singing contest is most watched show of 2021 so far outside of news and sport
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