Since its launch just a few weeks ago, Ann Droid has continued to go down a storm with viewers – and now, the official ratings confirm that it's a gem in the BBC's comedy crown.
As reported by Broadcast, the overnight ratings for the Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston series are incredibly positive, with the first episode pulling in 4 million viewers in its first seven days.
That figure includes the 1.9 million people that tuned in live when the episode aired on BBC One, with the rest made up of people watching across iPlayer and on other devices.
Whilst the ratings are already impressive at first glance, they become even more so when compared with some of the BBC's other recent comedy launches.
Ann Droid had a better ratings launch than Dawn French's Can You Keep a Secret? which premiered at the start of the year to an audience of 3.5 million.
The series has, of course, since been confirmed for season 2, with the audience number over the show's first 28 days reaching 5.3 million – more than half of that coming from BBC iPlayer.
But in news that may surprise many, Ann Droid's launch has actually surpassed that of Morgan's former Motherland co-star Lucy Punch in Amandaland season 2, which debuted at the beginning of May this year to an audience of 3.4 million.
Ann Droid isn't far behind Amandaland's first season either, which premiered in February 2025 to an audience of 4.4 million in its first seven days.
The series is set in 2029 and sees Morgan play Linda, an outdated model of robot who is bought by Paul Ready's Michael for his mum Sue, played by Johnston. It's a world where AI eldercare robots are the norm, but has been lauded for its more poignant and thought-provoking moments alongside the comedy.
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Previously speaking of her inspiration for the show, Morgan said: "I read a story in the paper which said that apparently they were rolling them [robots] out in Japan and I told Pippa [Brown] my producer and we started laughing about it.
"It was also inspired by the time in lockdown when I decided to send my mum a tablet so she could do online shopping - she reacted like I'd sent her a nail bomb."
Ann Droid is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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