The first season of Doctor Mateo’, which is made by Notro TV and broadcast by Antena 3 in the Sunday prime time slot, average an impressive 19.3% share with an average audience of 3,567,000 viewers. 9,218,000 viewers have contact with the series every week. Or, to put it another way, 65.3% of the Spanish population have had at least one minute of contact with ‘Doctor Mateo’, an excellent result bearing in mind that viewers have only been able to enjoy 11 episodes since the show’s launch in February.

Likewise, the series, which stars Gonzalo de Castro and Natalia Verbeke, achieved 20.2% of Antena 3’s overall audience ratings on the Sundays it was broadcast. In other words, a fifth of the channel’s total Sunday audience figures, on the days the series was broadcast, were due to the success of the series. Doctor Mateo is now one of the most succesful long running Dramedy series, with 42 x 70' episodes so far commissioned.