[AaronTV]

I know that the TV landscape has changed significantly over the last 2 decades, but it comes to something when you're celebrating getting 4.56m viewers for one of your flagship Saturday night programmes.

Even The Apprentice manages around 6m on a Thursday night.

It certainly doesn’t reach that figure live, more like the 3.5 million range. 4.56 million is about where you would expect Takeaway based on how it’s performed this year, and it’s certainly at the higher end of viewing figures compared to most slots.

We see relatively few ‘live’ ratings now so it’s hard to really compare, but the number of programs and slots on BBC One and ITV which regularly fail to meet 2 million is pretty stark. It’s not uncommon now to see primetime slots around the million mark, especially if the program is already on iPlayer/ITV X.