Top Drama Viewership Ratings for Oct. 16-22, 2017

I wouldn’t have initially pegged Witch’s Court to be such a hit right out of the starting gate (but I’m happy for Yoon Hyun-min—give this man more roles!), but the trend it started with last week continued upward this week, netting the show a super impressive 12.3% in its fourth episode. Granted, the competition isn’t much, with 20th Century Boy and Girl continuing to pull in low numbers, and Temperature of Love was also taken out of the running on Tuesday.

Over in the middle of the week, While You Were Sleeping finally broke double digits, but it sank back down into the (high) singles with its second set of episodes. Mad Dog saw a bit of a rise with its third episode only to drop down in its fourth, and Hospital Ship continues to coast on its decent numbers. How much hospital shipping can they possibly do in forty (40!) episodes?

This was a week of pre-emptions for certain shows, mostly affecting the weekend circuit—Thief-nom, Thief-nim was pre-empted for the entire weekend, while Man Who Sets the Table circumvented a Sunday pre-emption by airing both episodes on Saturday. SBS, meanwhile, is continuing their weird streak of airing four episodes on Saturday, and premiered its new show, Bravo My Life, to replace Sister is Alive. So far it’s not a runaway hit even when it has no competition in the later time slots—guess we’ll have to see how it fares once they up the makjang quotient.

 
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Oct. 16-22, 2017