Ratings
From Lostpedia
Lost has become a hit show all over the world, attracting an average of 16 million viewers each episode during the first season. It has also won several awards, including an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Drama Series", and "Best American Import" at the British Academy Television Awards. In fact, Lost is the second most watched show in the world.
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United States Of America
By Season
- Premiere: 18.6 million viewers
- Average per episode: 16 million viewers
- Premiere: Over 23 million viewers
- Average per episode: 15.5 million viewers
- Premiere: 18.8 million viewers
- Mini Season: Around 12 million viewers per episode (approx. 11,917,000)
- Total Mini Season: Around 18 million (approx. 17,837,000)
- After hiatus premiere: 14.5 million
- Average per episode: 14.6 million [1]
- Premiere: 16.1 million viewers
- Average per episode: TBA
By Episode
Season 1 ...(TBA)
Season 2
...(TBA)
Season 3
...(TBA)
| Ep # | Ep name | Viewers 18-49 (millions) | Rating/Share 18-49 | Ranking for night 18-49 | Ranking for night | Ranking for week | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Beginning of the End" | 16.137 | 6.7/17 | 8 | [2] | ||
| 2 | "Confirmed Dead" | 15.292 | 6.5/16 | 7 | 2 | ||
| 3 | "The Economist" | 13.76 | 5.8/15 | 4 | 3 | ||
| 4 | "Eggtown" | 13.647 | 5.7/13 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 5 | "The Constant" | 12.893 | 5.4/13 | 8 | 5 | ||
| 6 | "The Other Woman" | 13.008 | 5.4/13 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 7 | "Ji Yeon" | 11.981 | |||||
| 8 | "Meet Kevin Johnson" | 11.281 | |||||
| 9 | "The Shape of Things to Come" | 12.075 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | "Something Nice Back Home" | 10.726 | 4.7/13 | 21 | 10 | ||
| 11 | "Cabin Fever" | 10.780 | 4.7/13 | 19 | 11 | ||
| 12 | "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" | 10.962 | 4.9/13 | 19 | |||
| 13 | "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3" | 12.2 | 4.9/13 | 13 |
Australia
Season 1 premiere: Around 2.22 million (most watched program that week)
Season 1 average: Around 1.93 million (ranked 3rd in "Top Rating Regular Programmes")
Season 1 finale: Around 2.08 million (most watched program that week)
Season 2 average: Around 1.48 million
Season 4
Note: "Something Nice Back Home", "Cabin Fever" and "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" aired at 10:30 p.m. while the other episodes aired at 9:30 p.m.
| Episode 01 | Episode 02 | Episode 03 | Episode 04 | Episode 05 | Episode 06 | Episode 07 | Episode 08 | Episode 09 | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Episode 13 | |
| "The Beginning of the End" | "Confirmed Dead" | "The Economist" | "Eggtown" | "The Constant" | "The Other Woman" | "Ji Yeon" | "Meet Kevin Johnson" | "The Shape of Things to Come" | "Something Nice Back Home" | "Cabin Fever" | "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" | "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3" | |
| Viewers | 912,000 | 869,000 | 867,000 | 780,000 | 770,000 | 691,000 | 689,000 | 618,000 | 683,000 | 505,000 | 392,000 | 464,000 | 603,000 |
| Ranking for night | 15 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 20 | Unknown | 33 | 30 | 18 |
| Ranking for week | Unknown | 71 | 65 | 75 | 76 | 92 | >100 | >100 | 97 | >100 | >100 | >100 | 101 |
United Kingdom
Season 1 - Channel 4
- Premiere: Around 6.75 Million - average of the two episodes shown
- Finale: Around 5.345 Million - average of the two final episodes shown
Season 2 - Channel 4
- Premiere: Around 4.51 Million - average of the two episodes shown
- Finale: Around 3.365 Million - average of the two final episodes shown
- Note: At the end of Season 2, Sky One bought the rights to air Lost. The quite significant decrease in ratings shown below is due to Sky One being a digital, non-terrestrial channel.
Season 3 - Sky One
- Premiere: Around 1.5 million viewers (approx. 1,516,9000) -average of the two episodes shown.
- After hiatus premiere: Around 1.5 million (approx. 1,550,000)
- Finale: Around 1.2 million (approx. 1,214,000)
- Note: In between the the after hiatus premiere and the finale, Virgin Media cut Sky One from it's service, resulting in the further loss of viewers.
All United Kingdom rating figures come from BARB.
Worldwide
A survey of twenty countries by "Informa Telecoms" and Media in 2006 concluded that Lost was the second most watched TV show in the world. [3]
DVR Controversy
In its post hiatus episodes, Lost, on an average got between an 18%-24% bump in the ratings after including the DVR numbers. [source needed]
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