Viewing figures revealed: Patrick Kielty’s first Late Late Toy Show breaks RTÉ Player records

Viewers of the Elf-themed episode have also raised €3.6 million for the Toy Show Appeal

Patrick Kielty's first Toy Show had 200,000 more viewers than Ryan Tubridy's last Toy Show in November 2022. Picture: Andres Poveda / RTÉ̇

RTÉ has released the viewing figures for last week’s Toy Show and the broadcaster says it has broken previous records on the RTÉ player.

Last Friday’s Late Late Toy Show has been watched over 1.7 million times, including catch-up viewing over the weekend, making it the most-watched programme of the year so far. Viewers online were based in an unprecedented 147 countries worldwide including first-time streams from Cameroon, British Virgin Islands, Rwanda, Sierra Leon, Iraq, and Afghanistan.