This screen shot is of viewing ratings for Friends on the channel Comedy Central week ending 16th February 2014. From the data I can see that Friends is the fourth most viewed program on the list with 135,000 viewers. This is quite high rating as its on a Sunday night, at 17:30. 17:30 not being peak time. As well as this, Friends is 20 years old, so a program that is quite old is still getting quite a big audience on a satellite TV channel. This proves that Friends still has a large population of viewers in the UK. In addition, Friends is also in this top ten for this specific week, four other times. Figures ranging from 107,000-123,000. This is very significant as this also proves just how popular Friends is nowadays.
This screen shot is of the viewing ratings for Friends on channel E4 weekending 7th December 2003. From the data I can see that Friends is the most popular show on E4 as it fills the top 10. Every single place is taken by Friends. This is showing that this was the most popular show on E4 that specific week. This could be down to Friends having just been released in the UK at this point, which supports the viewing ratings. The most watched show was 0.34 million, which is hugely popular at this point.
After looking at both pieces of data, the data from 2003 is significantly higher than the data from this year. This is because Friends is aired on smaller TV channel, Comedy Central, which is considered a smaller channel as its on satellite television. Compared to E4 in 2003, viewing figures are immensely higher because E4 is considered a bigger channel than Comedy Central as it pulls in more viewers because its on terrestrial television. Another reason for the high viewing figures in 2003, is because Friends just began in the UK.
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