Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 9-15, 2020
by SailorJumun
We have more dramas to talk about, and more ratings to compare. The newcomers this week were both tvN shows, fantasy crime drama Memorist and medical drama Hospital Playlist. The former premiered to 3.3 percent, a pretty nice chunk of viewers, and the latter premiered to 6.3 percent, which… wow, way to go. Not too surprised, though, this coming from the Answer Me and Smart Prison Living team.
Overall, it’s looking like cable dramas are really thriving lately. The Cursed reached an all-time high of 6.1 percent, and Itaewon Class and Hi Bye, Mama! continued to kick ass. Of course, the big broadcasters are raking in those numbers too, save for Wednesday-Thursday dramas Forest and The Game: Towards Zero. The Game actually came to an end this Thursday, garnering 2.9 percent and 3.5 percent.
The only show missing from the board is I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day, which was pre-empted due to the crew wanting to take precautions against the coronavirus. But not to worry; we’ll find the show on beautiful day next week.
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 9-15, 2020
| Ep. # | Station | Rating | |
| Monday, Mar. 9 | |||
| Nobody Knows | 3 | SBS | 9.3% |
| I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day | – | JTBC | – |
| The Cursed | 9 | tvN | 5.2% |
| Tuesday, Mar. 10 | |||
| Nobody Knows | 4 | SBS | 9.5% |
| I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day | – | JTBC | – |
| The Cursed | 10 | tvN | 6.1% |
| Wednesday, Mar. 11 | |||
| Forest | 25 | KBS | 4.2% |
| Forest | 26 | KBS | 4.7% |
| The Game: Towards Zero | 29 | MBC | 2.8% |
| The Game: Towards Zero | 30 | MBC | 3.9% |
| Memorist | 1 | tvN | 3.3% |
| Thursday, Mar. 12 | |||
| Forest | 27 | KBS | 2.6% |
| Forest | 28 | KBS | 3.1% |
| The Game: Towards Zero | 31 | MBC | 2.9% |
| The Game: Towards Zero | 32 | MBC | 3.5% |
| Memorist | 2 | tvN | 2.8% |
| Hospital Playlist | 1 | tvN | 6.3% |
| Friday, Mar. 13 | |||
| Hyena | 7 | SBS | 10.8% |
| Itaewon Class | 13 | JTBC | 13.1% |
| Saturday, Mar. 14 | |||
| Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life | 93 | KBS | 15.9% |
| Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life | 94 | KBS | 26.3% |
| Hyena | 8 | SBS | 12.5% |
| Itaewon Class | 14 | JTBC | 14.2% |
| Tell Me What You Saw | 13 | OCN | 2.4% |
| Hi Bye, Mama! | 7 | tvN | 6.1% |
| Sunday, Mar. 15 | |||
| Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life | 95 | KBS | 28.8% |
| Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life | 96 | KBS | 31.2% |
| Tell Me What You Saw | 14 | OCN | 3.8% |
| Hi Bye, Mama! | 8 | tvN | 5.4% |
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1 panshel
March 15, 2020 at 6:05 AM
Can Itaewon Class join the 18% Club in its final week?
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bong-soo
March 15, 2020 at 8:28 AM
IC fan here. An almost 4% jump might be a bit too much to ask.
Episode 14’s rating of 14.197% is the drama’s second highest rating (after episode 10’s 14.760%).
I haven’t seen episodes 13 and 14 so I don’t know the setup for the final 2 episodes.
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2 Kairoskat 💐
March 15, 2020 at 6:32 AM
Forest ratings fell......
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Into a hole. Pfft.
I haven't watched the new episodes yet. But as of ep 20, I'm not surprised the ratings are decreasing.
I hope everyone involved will move to better projects.
And congrats Hospital Playlist! 6.3% for a rebroadcast. That's great.
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panshel
March 15, 2020 at 7:05 AM
Hospital Playlist premiered on Thursday. @sailorjumun listed
on Wednesday by mistake.
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Kairoskat 💐
March 15, 2020 at 7:11 AM
Oh! So 6.3% for ep 1! The hype is real for Hospital Playlist 😆. I'm reading only praise for the drama so far
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SailorJumun
March 15, 2020 at 7:11 AM
Yup, according to Netflix, Hospital Playlist will only be airing once a week, every Thursday.
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windsun33
March 15, 2020 at 11:15 AM
But it seems like each episode is movie length.
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3 Selena
March 15, 2020 at 9:48 AM
Happy to see Nobody Knows and The Cursed are doing so well. These are my fav. drama on TV right now.
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4 candilane
March 15, 2020 at 2:08 PM
I am easing away from IC.. but its still a good drama but I really love Hi Bye Mama. I feel like this is a bit underrated and I am still hoping for a miracle with Cha Yu Ri coming back although I am not sure that will happen.
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5 alasecond
March 15, 2020 at 2:58 PM
how do you compare these ratings?
%s are normalized? or are these % over different bases?
In that case, if 3% on tvn used to be good 5 yrs ago, may not be good now (unless these are normalized statistical points)
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6 Yuyuu, The Drama Queen
March 16, 2020 at 3:00 AM
Happy that Nobody Knows is faring well, it's one of my fav in the currently airing shows.
Can't wait for WTWIN to come back, and to finally check out Hospital Playlist
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7 neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
March 18, 2020 at 5:53 AM
Haven't read the ratings for awhile and looks like the tables have turned for the weekday shows for cable and major stations. I'm sure it's been like that for awhile but still surprising to see.
Yay for Hospital Playlist!
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