13-12-2022, 01:05 PM
(13-12-2022, 08:01 AM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote:(12-12-2022, 07:10 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: Christmas 2013 saw it gain a whopping 11.5 million viewers, so it deserved a Christmas night slot. Christmas 2021 it has plummeted to 4.6 million viewers. Yes, overnight audiences are decreasing, but that is a marked drop over the space of 8 years.
Not sure where that 4.6m figure comes from but there are a couple of bits of context - 2021 generally saw lower than normal figures for Christmas Day across the board, and Barb reissued a lot of the figures for that period in February after an error in how the data was collected was identified, so everything was under reported in the newspaper reports at the time.
Apparently last year's special did good business for RTE even if it wasn't appreciated in the UK.
4.6 million figure is from the BARB audience rating which all audience figures are derived from.