The number of TV viewers is also declining significantly on the popular Sunday television evening. Since 2018, the average number of people in Germany watching TV on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. has fallen by five million, said the ARD in Munich – from 33.85 million in 2018 to 28.47 million in 2023. But the “crime scene” is making it Nevertheless, the ARD emphasized that it wanted to maintain its audience ratings.
The series’ market share in 2023 was 28.4 percent, the highest since 1993 (31.8 percent). In terms of the absolute number of viewers, there were slight losses on average from 2022 to 2023 (from 8.88 million to 8.53 million viewers per episode). At the same time, usage in the ARD media library is constantly growing. On average, new “Tatort” crime novels achieve more than a million views per episode (1.02 million) 14 days after publication.
