Friday night’s The Late Late Toy Show was the most watched programme on Irish television so far this year, with an average audience of 1.4 million viewers watching the entire show.
Four in five people watching television at the time tuned in to The Late Late Toy Show on Friday night with an average audience share of 77 per cent.
Based on overnight figures, Friday night’s broadcast of The Late Late Toy Show was even more popular than last year’s and had its highest TV audience since 2011.
The show had a one-minute reach of more than 2 million, while on RTÉ Player, this year’s Late Late Toy Show was watched in 102 countries outside of Ireland.
From the Cayman Islands to Lebanon, Jamaica, Qatar and Nepal, this year The Late Late Toy Show attracted the highest volume of international streams in recent years. The top five countries streaming internationally were the UK, US, Australia, Spain and Canada.
Late Late Toy Show host Ryan Tubridy said, “We had an absolute ball putting together this year’s Late Late Toy Show and I am really happy to see that people appreciated it in such tremendous numbers.
“I didn’t think it was possible to better last year’s show but it is a credit to producer Katherine Drohan, her team and, of course, the children who were the real stars of the show that we were able to pull it off. I want to send a big thank you to everyone who took part and all the people watching for making this one of the biggest and best Toy Shows ever”.
This year’s Jungle Book-themed show featured more than 320 young performers and toy demonstrators with surprise guest appearances from Dermot Bannon, Jamie Heaslip and Rory McIlroy.
To date, there have been a more than 2.1 million views of Late Late Toy Show content shared on the RTÉ One and Late Late Show Facebook pages.
All toys featured on the show on the night will be donated to charity.
