The Auguste-Armand Institute is celebrating an anniversary. TF1 is broadcasting, this Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6:35 p.m., the thousandth episode of its daily soap opera, launched on its channel in November 2020. Almost four years ago now, the One had in fact taken the gamble of interweaving two daily fictions into its schedule – “Tomorrow Belongs to Us” had shown the way in July 2017 – in the access prime time slot, long devoted to the game. Before the broadcast of episode 1,000 – marked by the return of actors Mikaël Mittelstadt and Nicolas Anselmo – puremedias.com proposes to dissect the evolution of audiences for the first four seasons of this production by Églantine Sofianos (Newen, a subsidiary of the TF1 group).
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Up to 3.95 million viewers on November 11, 2020
Let’s start with the score of its pilot. On Monday, November 2, 2020, for the record, 3.75 million viewers followed the first steps of the students of the famous hotel school, which represented 19.7% of the audience at the time. “Ici tout commence” set its historic records in season 1 with up to 3.95 million viewers on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 and 25.9% audience share on Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
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More generally, this first season was the most unifying in the short history of the series with an average of 3.28 million viewers between November 2, 2020 and August 20, 2021, or 20.6% of 4+. From season 2, in standby audience, the average fell below 3 million viewers (2.75 million between August 23, 2021 and August 26, 2022) and 20 points of audience share (19.8% of the public).
“Here it all begins” lost nearly a million viewers between its seasons 1 and 4
The daily series lost new viewers during seasons 3 – 2.56 million between August 29, 2022 and August 18, 2023, or 19.2% of the audience – and 4. Between August 21, 2023 and August 23, 2024, 2.37 million viewers, or 17.9% of the audience, were there in linear. The soap opera thus lost nearly a million viewers (910,000) between its seasons 1 and 4.
It was in this last window that the series achieved its worst ever result. Faced with the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, “Here it all begins” had been able to count on barely 1.77 million diehards, the equivalent of 12.2% of the public.
Since the start of the school year, just under 2 million viewers (1,996,000) – including Zoï Sévérin, Loan Becmont, Vanessa Demouy, Stéphane Blancafort, Terence Telle, Frédéric Diefenthal Virginie Caliari, Catherine Marchal, Lucien Belves Marianiet, Julie Sassoust and Gabriel Réhsé – have been interested in the lives of their characters, or 17.1% of the audience.
The evolution of audiences for ‘Here it all begins’ on TF1
Season 1 (November 2, 2020 – August 20, 2021): 3.28 million (20.6%)
Season 2 (August 23, 2021 – August 26, 2022): 2.75 million (19.8%)
Season 3 (August 29, 2022 – August 18, 2023): 2.56 million (19.2%)
Season 4 (August 21, 2023 – August 23, 2024): 2.37 million (17.9% of 4+ and 29.0% of FRDA-50)
Season 5 (August 26, 2024 – September 10, 2024): 2.00 million (17.1%)
