#4

You still here?

#5

hey theo to the nearest 10k how many of the 8.11m people who watched mothers mercy do you thikn watched none of the other 9 epsidoes?

#6

not really. bunch of normies who just watch stuff if it’s on. maybe there was a pop idol final or something on the same night. they’ll just watch the recap next time.

#7

But I don’t really get how you could just dip into this show and find it remotely compelling if you didn’t want to watch the rest?

The BBC figures used to have some way to include people who watched at a later date so they were compiled later in the week. I mean maybe it’s literally that they stop checking after a week so 2 million people just record all 10 episodes and watch them in a big block?

#8

Okay, I’ll bite. Is it not that the “big” episodes are the ones which people want to see immediately instead of waiting for reruns/torrents/whatever?

Just had a thought, do they make any attempt to account for when groups of people are watching the telly, instead of one? Those numbers are surely all out of place. Maybe “bigger” episodes are more likely to be watched in groups, making those viewing figures lower?

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#9

Keep this bullying up and I’ll consider revoking your JDon btw.

#10

Depends how people watch things too - like they might watch some of the episodes via a torrent or at a later date, but want to watch the ‘big’ episodes as they’re screened to be part of the event and the next day’s water cooler talk.

What’s also noticeable is that the average rating for episodes tends to go up as a series progresses and viewers are shed:

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0944947

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#11

But wait, what I’ve said makes no sense. If that was the case then “bigger” episodes would have lower viewing figures? Oh Theo I don’t know I’m not a tellyman.

#12

from what i understand about homeland, it’s a terrible show and people probably don’t watch when it gets especially bad

#13

So the people who aren’t bothered stop watching and the average rises? Although the drop in viewers seems disproportionate. I guess these people were rating very low and later episode get even higher ratings from fans?

#14

Homeland is a great ‘hatewatch’. I have Agents of SHIELD as a solo hatewatch. The TV has Walking Dead.

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#16

I have Noah idea what you are getting at.

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#17

That’s what largely drives it, although some series (eg Mad Men) build to a more obvious peak plotting-wise every season:

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0804503

#18

cool little tool that

#19

arc-based

#20

Yeah. I think it would really benefit from being able to plot the number of viewers and/or the number of reviewers in there too - to test the theories.

#21

yeah i’ve never really paid attention to IMDB episode ratings before - just looking at Lost for example and only like 2500 people review most episodes. kind of meaningless but still fun to look at in graph form.

#22

Think you’re probably just underestimating the amount of “casuals” there are out there - people who buy two albums a year (Adele and something else) and just watch whatever’s on if they’ve seen something about it in the telly guide.

#23

an ex has one of the ratings counting things attached to the telly in her flat

You are supposed to tell it how many people are watching - but she never bothered.