Gladiators Series 3 Final Ratings report
Hello again. I've given it a few weeks, and we can now observe a comprehensive table of the FULL Series 3 Terrestrial Ratings report.
2025 Christmas Special (Aired Dec 25th):
4.29 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
11th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
17th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
5.48 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
8th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
13th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x01 'Heat 1' (Aired Jan 17th):
5.14 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
6th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
5.74 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
7th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
7th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x02 'Heat 2' (Aired Jan 24th):
4.74 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
9th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
9th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
5.23 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
9th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
9th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x03 'Heat 3' (Aired Jan 31st):
4.75 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
6th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
5.35 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
6th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x04 'Heat 4' (Aired Feb 7th):
4.74 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
6th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
5.13 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
7th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
7th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x05 'Heat 5' (Aired Feb 14th):
3.56 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
7th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
15th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
4.07 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
5th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
9th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x06 'Quarter-Final 1' (Aired Feb 21st):
3.16 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
21st Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
34th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
3.67 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
13th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
20th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x07 'Quarter-Final 2' (Aired Feb 28th):
4.14 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
8th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
9th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
4.49 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
8th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
13th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x08 'Quarter-Final 3' (Aired Mar 7th):
3.54 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
12th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
17th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
3.90 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
12th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
18th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x09 'Semi-Final 1' (Aired Mar 14th):
3.87 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
8th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
11th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
4.23 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
8th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
13th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x10 'Semi-Final 2' (Aired Mar 21st):
3.61 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
7th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
18th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
3.95 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
17th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
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3x11 'The Grand Final' (Aired Mar 28th):
4.18 Million Viewers (After 7 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 7 Days)
9th Place overall in the week. (After 7 Days)
4.53 Million Viewers (After 28 Days)
6th Place on BBC1 in the week. (After 28 Days)
11th Place overall in the week. (After 28 Days)
So, what can we gleam from the final full results? Mostly a lot of the same, in terms of abstract understanding. Gladiators is still very much fine, if not the juggernaut it was at launch 2 years ago.
In terms if averages:
7-Day:
Series 1 (2024): 6.17 Million.
Series 2 (2025): 4.73 Million.
Series 3 (2026): 4.13 Million.
28-day:
Series 1 (2024): 6.85 Million.
Series 2 (2025): 5.27 Million.
Series 3 (2026): 4.57 Million.
Which means Gladiators has a healthy, steady audience of roughly just over 4 Million. Not bad at all, especially for 2026.
You may also note, from the chart above, that more often than not 'Gladiators' was not only charting in the BBC's Top Ten broadcasts, but was also charting in the Total top 10 for over half of the Season. Which is the prime real estate of modern broadcastinf Telly here in the UK.
And while ratings have declined, the decline does appear to be softening, especially from 2 to 3. I would estimate we have found, roughly, the shows ratings floor for the time being.
I have almost no doubt that Series 4 will decline again somewhat. But I expect the fall to be significantly less of a gap. And if I am right, then Gladiators will stabalise in a comfy, healthy place.
And so long as the series retains its strong ROI (Return Of Investmnent), with things like merchandise and event sales, aswell as international versions of the brand like on Amazon, then I expect we have many more brawls in the Arena to look forwards to.
No idea when I'll make my next update. At the latest, it'll be after this years celebrity special. But I may have another Ratings related topic I want to bring up at a later time.
Until then, I hope this has been helpful. See you's then!