The first episode of the final series was watched by nearly half a million viewers on Channel 4
Derry Girls was the most-watched TV programme in Northern Ireland last year, with the first episode of the final series being watched by nearly half a million viewers on Channel 4, a new report from Ofcom has shown.
The media regulator also revealed that people in Northern Ireland spent less time watching TV than in the previous year, with an average of two hours 44 minutes spent per day watching broadcast TV on a TV set in 2022, a 9.5% decline compared with 2021. Those aged 16-24 watched the least, at an average of 31 minutes per day, down by more than 22% since 2021.
Just under half of TV users in Northern Ireland have a TV connected to the internet, which is lower than the average across the UK, where 65% of TV homes have a connected TV. Included in the data was an outline of the impact of broadcast and production in Irish and in Ulster Scots. The ILBF funded a wide range of Irish language content in 2022, for broadcast primarily on TG4, BBC Northern Ireland and RTE.