Top programmes report

week 4, January 25 - 31

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The top 50 programmes on TV based on the size of their total viewing audience over the week (including live, VOSDAL, time-shifted and total audience viewing figures).

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Here’ some more information for you about the data you can see on this page: from key terms to how the data was run.

  • Channel: ‘stagger’ includes viewing data for the parent channel, its +1 channel and its HD equivalent if it has one.
  • Audience / Live: the audience who watched the programme at the time of transmission
  • Audience / VOSDAL: this is Viewing-On-Same-Day-As-Live.  A recorded programme that has been viewed on the same day as the original broadcast
  • Audience / Time-Shifted: the playback audience to a video or DTR recording (e.g. Sky+) of a programme.  Playback occurs within 2 to 7 days of the original broadcast to be counted.
  • Total Audience: the consolidated viewing audience for the programme. This is the sum of the live, VOSDAL and time-shifted audiences.
  • Share: the percentage of the total available viewing audience who were watching the programme over a given time period.

All numbers are expressed as a share of all commercial TV viewing apart from the ALL TV Volume table which is a share of total TV viewing.

Rank Programme Channel Live
('000)		 VOSDAL
('000)		 Time-Shifted
('000)		 Total Audience
('000)		 Share
1 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-26 19:29:20-20:59:06 E4 594 433 430 1,458 9.9%
2 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-28 19:30:31-20:58:42 E4 541 396 489 1,426 9.4%
3 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-29 19:29:14-20:59:33 E4 510 296 572 1,378 8.9%
4 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-25 19:29:33-20:58:23 E4 514 341 478 1,333 8.0%
5 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-27 19:30:16-20:59:24 E4 393 345 516 1,255 7.9%
6 Hollyoaks2021-01-29 18:59:12-19:28:02 E4 206 146 446 798 5.8%
7 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-25 21:00:00-22:03:58 E4 340 102 350 793 5.1%
8 Hollyoaks2021-01-28 19:00:04-19:29:19 E4 223 149 397 769 5.5%
9 Hollyoaks2021-01-25 18:59:29-19:28:41 E4 238 220 295 753 5.5%
10 Hollyoaks2021-01-27 19:00:08-19:29:24 E4 216 215 290 720 5.1%
11 Hollyoaks2021-01-26 18:59:24-19:28:28 E4 148 233 297 678 4.7%
12 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-26 21:00:29-22:01:18 E4 238 63 308 609 3.6%
13 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-27 21:00:41-22:02:20 E4 220 25 327 572 3.2%
14 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-28 21:00:25-22:02:06 E4 216 46 267 529 3.6%
15 Gogglebox2021-01-30 23:04:27-24:05:11 E4 406 40 33 479 8.1%
16 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-29 21:01:04-22:03:02 E4 181 49 240 470 3.3%
17 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-28 18:29:43-18:54:38 E4 389 37 4 431 4.5%
18 Gogglebox2021-01-30 22:01:54-23:03:10 E4 351 60 12 423 3.8%
19 Celebs Go Dating: The Mansion2021-01-31 21:00:20-22:00:54 E4 124 57 232 413 2.6%
20 Gogglebox2021-01-27 22:03:37-23:04:00 E4 347 5 27 378 4.3%
21 Gogglebox2021-01-29 22:08:29-24:03:42 E4 317 15 23 355 4.5%
22 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-29 18:29:18-18:54:26 E4 332 5 0 336 3.6%
23 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-27 18:30:37-18:54:42 E4 307 0 3 310 3.2%
24 Dead Pixels2021-01-26 22:37:11-23:04:14 E4 101 23 174 298 3.0%
25 Dead Pixels2021-01-26 22:02:35-22:31:30 E4 88 49 154 292 2.5%
26 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-28 18:00:12-18:25:37 E4 247 35 3 285 3.0%
27 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-31 17:39:52-18:04:40 E4 278 2 0 279 2.3%
28 Gogglebox2021-01-30 24:06:48-25:07:19 E4 248 7 18 273 7.5%
29 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-30 17:56:05-18:19:43 E4 255 9 0 264 1.9%
30 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-25 18:29:17-18:54:43 E4 260 0 3 263 2.7%
31 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-31 18:09:37-18:36:33 E4 252 9 0 260 2.0%
32 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-26 18:29:07-18:54:18 E4 225 9 24 258 2.5%
33 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-29 18:00:35-18:25:12 E4 248 0 4 252 2.7%
34 Married At First Sight Australia2021-01-30 11:29:17-12:58:57 E4 166 15 71 252 4.2%
35 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-30 18:24:20-18:48:11 E4 211 38 0 250 1.7%
36 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-27 18:01:31-18:26:51 E4 220 0 28 248 2.6%
37 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-25 17:59:57-18:24:51 E4 244 0 3 247 2.5%
38 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-31 17:13:15-17:36:59 E4 229 2 0 230 2.0%
39 Temptation Island2021-01-31 22:01:24-22:57:10 E4 175 14 41 230 2.2%
40 FILM: Shrek The Third (2007)2021-01-31 19:11:32-20:55:18 E4 187 1 38 226 1.5%
41 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-30 17:27:15-17:51:29 E4 209 7 0 216 1.8%
42 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA2021-01-30 14:01:25-14:57:51 E4 181 4 19 203 2.4%
43 Young Sheldon2021-01-28 16:01:07-16:26:07 E4 198 4 0 202 2.8%
44 Celebrity Gogglebox USA2021-01-29 24:05:59-25:00:00 E4 182 5 15 202 5.8%
45 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-26 18:00:23-18:25:21 E4 173 0 27 200 2.0%
46 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA2021-01-31 16:11:59-17:11:23 E4 168 10 18 196 1.8%
47 Naked Attraction2021-01-25 22:05:00-23:06:19 E4 181 11 2 193 2.3%
48 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-30 16:56:53-17:22:38 E4 186 4 0 190 2.0%
49 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-30 16:27:47-16:51:57 E4 189 0 0 189 2.1%
50 The Big Bang Theory2021-01-28 12:59:51-13:26:02 E4 161 26 0 187 4.1%
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