These are the primetime adult television viewing figures for March 2022.
If you can't see the listing below, then click this link to access them in a document instead:
Top Shows on TV: March 2022.
Special notes
Mzansi Magic paid the price for the uncreative, badly produced Sunday night Big Brother Mzansi 3 live shows.
Viewership was already much lower than Idols when it first started
with 529,041 viewers in January.
Ratings dropped to 487,770 viewers
in February and then plunged to 396,192 viewers in March, a loss of 25% between the start of the season and March.
It wasn't even available on Catch Up so there's no possible argument that viewers watched on Catch Up instead, they just stopped watching completely.
This is what happens when a production fails to deliver quality entertainment for audiences and doesn't even try to improve the show as the series progresses. It started with an undynamic show that lacked unique, entertaining content and this continued throughout.
The finale aired on 3 April so we'll see the ratings for that next month.
The timeslot overall: before Idols
crashed and burned last season, it was attracting over a million viewers, meaning the channel has now lost over 600,000 viewers in the early evenings on Sundays.
If you can't see the documents above, here's an overview of the Top 5 shows per channel/broadcaster:
SABC1
| Show |
Viewers |
| Uzalo |
7,020,908 |
| Generations: The Legacy |
5,697,238 |
| Skeem Saam |
4,040,188 |
| Xhosa News |
2,640,169 |
| Zulu News |
2,593,348 |
SABC2
| Show |
Viewers |
| Muvhango |
3,309,806 |
| Ses/Tsw/Sep News |
1,300,906 |
| Giyani |
1,026,424 |
| 7De Laan |
897,861 |
| Hlala Kwabafileyo |
873,471 |
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SABC3
| Show |
Viewers |
| The Hate U Give |
576,562 |
| Caf Champions League Mamelodi Sundowns V |
549,451 |
| Spider-Man |
500,127 |
| A Perfect Planet: Oceans |
475,695 |
| The Masked Singer |
468,033 |
e.tv
| Show |
Viewers |
| Scandal |
4,898,507 |
| House of Zwide |
4,363,470 |
| Imbewu |
3,442,796 |
| Mr Bones |
3,261,634 |
| Filler:the Black Door |
2,771,471 |
DStv
| Show |
Viewers |
| Gomora |
1,063,440 |
| The Queen |
814,637 |
| The River |
707,169 |
| DiepCity |
655,496 |
| Maskandi Queen |
612,026 |
Please note: these ratings don't include viewership from DStv Catch Up, YouTube, Viu or eVOD. They only reflect the viewership of people who watched on the day, at the time of broadcast.
For an explanation of the TAMS, please see:
The TAMS Ratings Explained.