David Tennant’s return as host for the 2025 Bafta Movie Awards picked up the identical variety of UK viewers as his first stint final yr, with 3 million watching the 7-9pm broadcast on BBC One, for a 21.1% viewers share.
This yr’s version was additionally forward of 2023 and 2022’s ceremony, which gathered respective audiences of two.6 million (16.6%) and a pair of.5 million (16.2%), however traditionally nonetheless low for the occasion.
Whereas the ceremony peaked with 3.4 million (24.4%) in its closing minutes, the present was nonetheless considerably adrift of the 4.5 million (32.7%) slot common.
The Baftas was the most-watched programme throughout its run time, forward of ITV1’s Dancing On Ice adopted by Who Needs to Be A Millionaire? Superstar Particular.
As with earlier years, the BBC introduced the winners because the ‘delayed-live’ present was nonetheless occurring. The 2-hour TV broadcast condensed the roughly three-hour-long dwell present.
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