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Media
Cowell tops telly chart of the year
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 17 December 2009
If Team Cowell do lose the race for Christmas number one, the Si-ster can nevertheless sleep at night knowing that he still leads the way when it comes to British television, with his two shows topping the telly ratings charts for 2009.
It seems unlikely that any of the big Christmas shows will beat the 15 million who tuned into the ‘X-Factor’ results show in the middle of November when Jedward-mania was at its height, and certainly not the 18 million rating scored by the final of this year’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ when we all tuned in to see whether Susan Boyle would have a nervous breakdown live on air. The only new show not to appear in this list likely to compete with either of them is last weekend’s ‘X-Factor’ final.
The list of the ten most watched TV shows of the year will make for pretty depressing reading if you hate soap operas and reality/talent shows. It seems that if you want to compete with that lot you either need a doctor or deprived children, and arguably the doctors should be looking after the kids rather than competing for TV viewers.
Anyway, here’s the most watched ten TV shows of the year, with channel, ratings and audience share. I should add the usual proviso that the margin of error in the way TV Ratings are calculated is significant, we never really know who watches what.
1. Britain’s Got Talent Final Result (ITV1) 18,294,000 (68.1%)
2. The X-Factor Results on 15 Nov (ITV1) 15,019,000 (48.4%)
3. EastEnders on 2 Apr (BBC1) 11,457000 (49.2%)
4. Coronation Street on 2 Feb (ITV1) 11,456,000 (41.0%)
5. Dancing On Ice Final (ITV1) 11,313,000 (43.8%)
6. I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! on 21 Nov (ITV1) 10,861,000 (41.7)
7. Doc Martin on 8 Nov (ITV1) 10,285,000 (33.6%)
8. Strictly Come Dancing on 14 Nov 10,101,000 (37.1%)
9. Children In Need (BBC1) 10,085,000 (38.8%)
10. Doctor Who ‘Waters Of Mars’ (BBC1) 9,942,000 ( 35.3%)
