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Primetime TV Viewing Figures
TVSA TAMS coverage - airing since 2006

Week 14: 1 - 7 April

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Primetime TV Viewing Figures on 19 Apr 2013
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These are the primetime adult television viewing figures for 1 - 7 April, 2013.

For an explanation of how the viewing figures are calculated, please read this article.

For previous weeks click here.

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Top Shows By Channel

 
 
# Show Viewers Show Viewers Show Viewers
1. Generations 7,193,000 Muvhango 3,949,000 Nim's Island 1,530,000
2. Intersexions 5,877,000 Speak Out 3,092,000 Days Of Our Lives 1,506,000
3. Zone 14 4,760,000 Ga Re Dumele 3,000,000 Isidingo 1,433,000
4. Skeem Saam 4,377,000 Mponeng 2,495,000 MacGyver 1,133,000
5. Tempy Pushas 4,316,000 7de Laan 2,247,000 The Secret Life of Primates 1,102,000
6. Zulu News 3,084,000 Bophele Ke Semphekgo 2,234,000 The Amazing Race 979,000
7. My Perfect Family 2,908,000 Tlharantlhope 1,959,000 Numb3rs 888,000
8. Xhosa News 2,887,000 Afrikaans News 1,819,000 3 Talk 869,000
9. Selimathunzi 2,755,000 Fokus 1,775,000 Who's Still Standing? 857,000
10. Tropika Island of Treasure 2,632,000 Gospel Time 1,775,000 The Client List 796,000
 
   
# Show Viewers Show Viewers    
1. Desperado 3,857,000 The Amazing Spider-Man 306,000    
2. Rhythm City 3,373,000 Carte Blanche 184,000    
3. Scandal! 3,199,000 Grey's Anatomy 184,000    
4. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist 2,847,000 Masterchef Australia 138,000    
5. e.tv News 2,545,000 Blue Bloods 122,000    
6. eKasi 2,388,000 Revenge 122,000    
7. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2,143,000 The Good Wife 122,000    
8. I Shouldn't Be Alive 1,867,000 Arrow 92,000    
9. Modern Family 1,683,000 Elementary 92,000    
10. Club 808 1,439,000 American Idol 77,000    


Top Shows By Genre

Top Dramas

1) Intersexions (SABC1) 5,877,000
2) Zone 14 (SABC1) 4,760,000
3) Skeem Saam (SABC1) 4,377,000
4) Tempy Pushas (SABC1) 4,316,000
5) eKasi (e.tv) 2,388,000

Top Reality Shows

1) Tropika Island of Treasure (SABC1) 2,632,000
2) Turn It Out (SABC1) 2,449,000
3) Khumbul'ekhaya (SABC1) 1,928,000
4) Nyan' Nyan (SABC1) 1,592,000
5) One Day Leader (SABC1) 1,286,000

Top Comedies

1) Ga Re Dumele (SABC2) 3,000,000
2) My Perfect Family (SABC1) 2,908,000
3) Mponeng (SABC2) 2,495,000
4) Mr Box Office (SABC1) 2,234,000
5) The First Family (SABC1) 1,959,000

Top News Bulletins

1) Zulu News (SABC1) 3,084,000
2) Xhosa News (SABC1) 2,887,000
3) e.tv News (e.tv) 2,545,000
4) Afrikaans News (SABC2) 1,819,000
5) Sesotho/Tswana/Sepedi News (SABC2) 1,386,000

Top Soap Operas

1) Generations (SABC1) 7,193,000
2) Muvhango (SABC2) 3,949,000
3) Rhythm City (e.tv) 3,373,000
4) Scandal! (e.tv) 3,199,000
5) 7de Laan (SABC2) 2,247,000

Top Talk Shows

1) Motswako: The Mix (SABC2) 1,255,000
2) 3 Talk (SABC3) 869,000
3) Screen Time (e.tv) 459,000
4) Alan Carr: Chatty Man (SABC3) 367,000

Top Actuality Shows

1) Speak Out (SABC2) 3,092,000
2) Fokus (SABC2) 1,775,000
3) Sunday Live (SABC1) 1,133,000
4) Cutting Edge (SABC1) 979,000
5) Leihlo La Sechaba (SABC2) 796,000

Top Magazine Shows

1) The Real Goboza (SABC1) 1,775,000
2) Club 808 (e.tv) 1,439,000
3) Pasella (SABC2) 1,194,000
4) iLifestyle (SABC1) 1,133,000
5) Nhlalala Ya Rixaka (SABC2) 1,010,000

Top Game Shows

1) Noot vir Noot (SABC2) 1,592,000
2) Who's Still Standing? (SABC3) 857,000
3) The Great Escape (M-Net) 31,000

Top Documentaries

1) I Shouldn't Be Alive (e.tv) 1,867,000
2) Vaya Mzansi (SABC1) 1,255,000
3) The Secret Life of Primates (SABC3) 1,102,000
4) Southern Rhythms (SABC2) 704,000
5) Iconoclasts (SABC3) 214,000

Top Primetime Movies

1) Desperado (e.tv) 3,857,000
2) Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (e.tv) 2,847,000
3) Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (e.tv) 2,143,000
4) De Javu (SABC1) 1,622,000
5) Nim's Island (SABC3) 1,530,000

Top 10 Regular Shows (excluding News bulletins)

1) Generations (SABC1) 7,193,000
2) Intersexions (SABC1) 5,877,000
3) Zone 14 (SABC1) 4,760,000
4) Skeem Saam (SABC1) 4,377,000
5) Tempy Pushas (SABC1) 4,316,000
6) Muvhango (SABC2) 3,949,000
7) Rhythm City (e.tv) 3,373,000
8) Scandal! (e.tv) 3,199,000
9) Speak Out (SABC2) 3,092,000
10) Ga Re Dumele (SABC2) 3,000,000



4 Comments

SiwaB
19 Apr 2013 13:49

The way people were complaining about Gen, u would think that the figures will go down, but instead they went up.  I f

05415
19 Apr 2013 15:00

It proves that Gen writers know what gets people in front of TV. Remember YizoYizo, when it came back then people said it was influencing people with bad things, they were horrified. But they watched. They were doign controversial stories... Today I laugh when people praise YizoYizo, which are the same people who were up in arms.

I'm getting to a point that - watching what makes you happy happy is not going to keep you tuned to TV, when writers get you talking and angry, and sad or whatever emotion, that's when you watch. It's the thing that takes us to cinemas to watch Tarantino movies and others, if they were writing happy happy, we wouldn't be buying those tickets. Why do we watch people bombing each other on TV? It's a human need to see others suffer even if it gets you emotional. Even hundreds of years ago, aboShakespeare they wrote about suicide, murder, betrayal - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet etc. That's why he is still famous today, we even allow our children to study these books in high school.

Generations writers are true writers I tell you and the numbers prove it.

shanydoodle
19 Apr 2013 20:11

Dear etv soapies, you make me extremely proud. Now we just need growth in the numberz. #TeamEtv

Kem Moc
19 Apr 2013 22:43

The most fucked up show has the biggest viewership... We live in a weird country indeed!!! Since Mpiyake Zungu's death Scandal has gone back to being my number 1 show in the land.


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