Generations bombs, viewers walk out

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Primetime TV Viewing Figures on 11 Dec 2014
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Talk about bombing!

The legacy of Generations is fading fast as viewers tune out by their millions. Literally.

Viewership has plunged to crazy lows following its non-eventful return on Monday, 1 December. After its first week on air - from Monday, 1 December to Monday, 8 December - it lost a whopping 2.5 million viewers. It recovered somewhat the Tuesday after but not in any meaningful way.

The viewership figures for the week:

Date	Average viewership
Monday, 1 December 2014	7 527 850
Tuesday, 2 December 2014	6 522 833
Wednesday, 3 December 2014	6 142 287
Thursday, 4 December 2014	5 372 319
Friday, 5 December 2014	4 096 382
Monday, 8 December 2014	5 015 207
Tuesday, 9 December 2014	5 810 499

This explosive dive in audience is unprecedented and is clearly a sign of the unhappiness and anger that many viewers are feeling towards the show.

There's been an extensively negative response to the show on social media too and the noise is converting to numbers. People are speaking with their phones, computers and remote controls and the message is very clear.

Millions of Generations fans don't like The Legacy.

Some soundbytes on the matter from viewers on TVSA, Facebook and Twitter:

Looks like SABC1's going to have to do that!

For more about how the viewership figures are calculated, please see this article: The Primetime TV Viewing Figures Explained.

Shows in this post: Generations

Channels in this post: SABC1

9 Comments

gkma
11 Dec 2014 17:23

I hope etv will come to the party soon with old generation actors. And the new actors have no pr with their fans how can I waste my time watching a person who says we should go to hell. I watched the first episode and have NO plans of watching it again.

nthabisheng
11 Dec 2014 17:48

Its soo boring I watched it for two minutes

kgabohumphrey
11 Dec 2014 18:16

they should bring back skeem saam and take that bull sh*t off our screens.

belindah
13 Dec 2014 07:20

I like the new Generation

Danick
13 Dec 2014 14:08

Are those rating for real really?. The new Generations has just started people am sure it will come around soon enough for all to appreciate the story lines. They only need to work on the picture quality(picture seems old) and yes!!! there is too much anger. Manaka's character in this one is rather too extreme, even the meanst of parents dont behave like that.