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IMMEDIATE: Monday 30th March, 2015
Keith Barry’s ‘You’re Back In the Room’ is a big hit with viewers.
Since its premiere on 14th March, ‘You’re Back In The Room’ hosted by Phillip Schofield and Keith Barry has gone down a storm with viewers and reached over 793,600 viewers.
Exclusive to TV3, ‘You’re Back In The Room’ sees a team of five strangers take on apparently simple challenges to win money, but there’s a catch – they are all under Keith’s hypnotic spell.
TV ratings for the series have been steadily climbing. The first episode on 14th March pulled in an average of 133,000 viewers, the second episode on the 21st March pulled in an average of 166,000 while last Saturday night’s episode saw an average of 203,000 viewers tune in to the hilarious primetime show!
‘You’re Back In The Room’ concludes this Saturday at 9pm on TV3.
Keith Barry’s new hypnotic show You’re Back In The Room has transfixed viewers over the last three weeks. Since premiering on TV3 on 14th March, the three episodes of You’re Back In The Room have reached a total of 793,600 viewers. Last Saturday’s show was the most popular yet reaching 413,000 viewers and attracting an average of 203,000 viewers (14% share of the available audience).
Speaking about the success of his latest venture, Keith Barry said: “I’m delighted with the success of my new show on TV3. It’s really brilliant to see the audience is enjoying it as much as I enjoyed working on it.”
And Keith, who is currently on holidays, has a lot to look forward to: “’You’re Back In The Room’ is doing well in both the UK and Ireland and there are already other countries interested in the format so I’m really excited about that. I’m also looking forward to touring Ireland with my ‘Out Of Control’ tour later this year.”
And it looks like the belly-aching Saturday night show, which is enjoying impressive ratings in the UK, is to head down under soon after the format was sold to an Australian broadcaster.
Referring to the success of the show on ITV1 in the UK, BBC Worldwide's Kate Phillips said: “These sort of ratings/share are unheard of for any new Entertainment show that's launched in the last 5 years. And I'm including the US in that.”
TV3 plans to capitalise on Keith’s popularity following the success of You’re Back In The Room by re-running the hugely successful Brain Hacker series which aired last year.
Keith Barry: Brain Hacker reached over 1.6 million viewers over its six week run in 2014. The six episodes of Brain Hacker, which was filmed in TV3’s state of the art Sony HD studio, averaged 168,600 viewers with a 9.91% market share for Individuals. The first episode which aired on 12th January 2014 and centered on ‘Intuition’ was the most popular of the entire series averaging 250,200 viewers with a 14.12% share.
The final episode of You’re Back In The Room airs this Saturday at 9pm on TV3, and Keith Barry: Brain Hacker airs from Saturday 11th April, straight after Britain’s Got Talent which airs EXCLSUIVELY on TV3.
*See Notes to Editor for broken down ratings figures
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NOTES TO EDITORS
You’re Back In the Room – SAT 14TH MARCH
132.8K – AVERAGE VIEWERS (9.56 % share)
365.4K – REACH
You’re Back In the Room – SAT 21ST MARCH
166.2K – AVERAGE VIEWERS (11.01 % share)
353.4K – REACH
You’re Back In the Room – SAT 28TH MARCH
203.7K – AVERAGE VIEWERS (14.31 % share)
412.9K – REACH
TOTAL AVERAGE ACROSS ALL 3 SHOWS - 377,400 (Individuals Live + Vosdal)
TOTAL CUMULATIVE REACH ACROSS ALL 3 SHOWS - 793,600 (Individuals, Live + vosdal)
*TAM Nielsen
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