Ratings For The Romans

[Peri-Peri]

Here are the viewers in millions who tuned in to each episode.

The Romans: The Slave Traders - 13.0
The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome - 11.5
The Romans: Conspiracy - 10.0
The Romans: Inferno - 12.0

And here are their weekly chart positions.

The Romans: The Slave Traders - 7th for the week
The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome - 15th for the week
The Romans: Conspiracy 10.0 - 28th for the week
The Romans: Inferno 12.0 - 13th for the week

And here are the AI scores for each episode

The Romans: The Slave Traders - 53
The Romans: All Roads Lead to Rome - 51
The Romans: Conspiracy - 50
The Romans: Inferno - 50

[Aneurin]

It's so hard sometimes to look at these ratings and not think 'wow' compared to today's ratings, but I suppose in context this would probably be about the same, if not worse than todays performance. It's a shame we can't see what the share was.

How many channels were there in 1965? Was it just BBC1 and ITV?

[Nyki]

BBC2 started that year, but this was right at the beginning of 1965, so there probably would have been just the two.

[Aneurin]

So 10-12 million out of what? About 40 million with a TV? I don't suppose that's too bad for the time.

[Peri-Peri]

So 10-12 million out of what? About 40 million with a TV? I don't suppose that's too bad for the time.

Well I don't know figures for those types of things, but I think that in 1965 the amount of homes with a TV in the UK would probably have been lower than that. I had a look online and found an article which said less than half the households in the UK had a TV in 1961, but most had one by 1969, so that's quite a growth and this was aired in the middle. Coronation Street on December 2nd 1964 had its largest audience of the 60s with 21.36m which had an 80% share, which would mean the total audience would have been about 25-27m (off the top of my head), so a DW audience a few weeks later of 10-12 million would have a share of about 40-45%, (again, this is a rough calculation in my head), which is roughly in line with what it averages at today.

I realise that was probably all very boring, but still...

[Aneurin]

No, that's not boring at all. Its always good to know whats what and how the show is standing

[Saber]

Definately not boring. I love facts and figures like this and you put it into context really well

[Peri-Peri]

Well ratings are cool

[Tardis-Console]

Well these ratings must have been pretty impressive because wasn't it getting about 2-3million when they finally cancelled it? That's quite a drop