Room to Improve beats Late Late Show and Tommy Tiernan in RTÉ ratings war

Dermot Bannon’s Room To Improve was the most watched entertainment show on RTE over the weekend despite the appearance of Hollywood stars Jamie Dornan, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott failed on the Late Late Show.

"It was a bumper TV weekend for Irish audiences across RTÉ," a spokesperson for the RTÉ said. 

According to figures released by RTE, an average audience of 460,000 tuned into RTE One and RTE One +1 to Friday night’s Late Late Show – 19,000 less compared to the previous week, despite the appearance of the three movie stars. And not to forget the appearance of football legend, Paul McGrath.  

It was watched by 42% of the available audience on RTÉ One.

On RTÉ Player, Friday's episode has generated almost 30,000 streams so far and across The Late Late Show social accounts, there were over 200,000 total interactions, with clips from the show getting over three million views.

There was a jump of 75,000 people tuning into Tommy Tiernan’s Saturday night chat show which was watched by an average audience of 475,000 viewers - 42% of the available audience watching on RTÉ One. On RTÉ Player, this programme has generated 26,000 streams to date.

Sunday's Room to Improve was watched by an average audience of 549,000 viewers on RTÉ One and RTÉ One +1 with 47% of the available audience watching on RTÉ One. On RTÉ Player, this programme has generated 18,000 streams to date, according to figures from RTÉ s. 

Dancing With The Stars saw an impressive 543,000 people tuning in to see former Mrs Brown's Boys star Rory Cowan become the first celebrity evicted from the dance show.

Episode 3 of the seventh series of Dancing with the Stars was watched by an average audience of 543,000 viewers on RTÉ One and RTÉ One +1 with 41% of the available audience watching on RTÉ One. On RTÉ Player, this programme has generated 27,000 streams to date.