Series 10 Ratings

[A Cousin]

(02-11-2011 03:29 PM)loladom Wrote:  If we take our minds off the controversy of the series finale, we may recall the furry over the S9 ending and the farce of the Lucas is John storyline. I do believe this lost Spooks a few hundred thousand fans at least going into s10 who had lost faith in the show/the new writing team and weren't prepared to give s10 a chance. Which is a shame but clearly shows an audience will vote with their feet. (Or remote control, in this case.)

This thought occurred to me as well. I am pretty sure that Spooks lost a lot of viewership after S9 for the reasons you mention above. I was curious to see how much that seemed to affect overall ratings for S10.

Looking at a slightly bigger picture, while the numbers were down 1M compared to S9, S10 had an overall average viewership better than both S8 and S7, and missed S6 by only 160,000 viewers.

S10: 5.41M
S9: 6.33M
S8: 5.36M
S7: 4.77M (Shame b/c, IMO, that was a fantastic series!)
S6: 5.57M
S5: 5.97m
S4: 6.05m
S3: 5.77m
S2: 7.19m
S1: 7.49m

All things considered, I still think it held it's own and was not nearly as affected by DA as I thought it would be.