TV stations' original series, miniseries as well as TV movie premieres entertained viewers most in front of their screens in the first half of 2022.
The most watched programmes in the first half of this year were mainly new series on Czech Television. The Devadesátky series had the highest viewership ever, with more than 2 million viewers watching each episode and an average viewership of 2.32 million. The most watched episode was the one broadcast on 13 February, which was watched by 2.4 million viewers. Overall, it was the most-watched series in 18 years.
Two other new series were also among the most-watched: Stíny v mlze, which averaged 1.6 million viewers 15+ (36.77% share) and then the comedy Špunti na cestě. The latter started with a high viewership of 1.9 million, but did not maintain it throughout the broadcast. Even so, the cumulative result was 1.43 million viewers (34.12% share) and ranked among the top shows of the first half of the year.
Among the most watched programmes were also the two-part series Vražedné stíny with Ondřej Vetchý and Podezření with Klara Melíšková (average 1.3 million for all three episodes), as well as films made with the support of Czech Television: the documentary Karel about the singer Karel Gott, the final episode of Marie Terezie, Šarlatán about the healer Jan Mikolášek, and Dům na samotě, based on the book by Michaela Klevisová.
Among the news programmes, Televizní noviny (TV Nova) was among the top programmes. Commercial television channels took the top spot in the list of most watched programmes with its original series. Among the most successful ones were this year's novelty ZOO (Prima), which followed Slunečná. On average, each episode was watched by an above-average 1.24 million viewers (15+, 31.13% share). Viewers also sought out Odznak Vysočina (Nova), the first episode of which was watched by 1.4 million viewers, with a total of 1.1 million viewers for all the episodes broadcast (25.37% share in 15+ and 26.59% in 15-54), and Specialisté (Nova) maintained a regularly above-average viewership throughout the spring broadcast. The premiere episodes broadcast on Mondays at 20:20 were watched by an average of 1.128 million (15+, 27.48% share).
Source: mediaguru.cz
