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Top 10 Most Shared TV Shows on BitTorrent

TV-shows are some of the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people sharing?

heroesEvery week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. Heroes is leading the chart this week, followed by Lost. Both episodes were downloaded well over a million times.

The data for the most recent TV episodes listed below are collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. The data for the second list based on the total number of downloads (not only recent episodes) of all shows in the past week is provided by ShowInsider.

Most Downloads (recent episodes)

March 23 – March 29
ranking (last week) show est. downloads
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1 (…) Heroes 1,740,000
2 (1) Lost 1,610,000
3 (4) 24 670,000
4 (3) Desperate Housewives 640,000
5 (6) Family Guy 510,000
6 (9) How I Met Your mother 495,000
7 (…) Gossip Girl 490,000
8 (7) Smallville 470,000
9 (…) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 440,000
10 (…) Supernatural 420,000

Most Downloads (all episodes)

March 23 – March 29
Ranking (last week) TV-show
showinsider.com
1 (4) Heroes
2 (1) Lost
3 (6) 24
4 (2) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
5 (8) Smallville
6 (13) Desperate Housewives
7 (7) How I Met Your Mother
8 (3) House M.D.
9 (10) Grey’s Anatomy
10 (5) Battlestar Galactica

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  • Anonymous

    forst

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    2nd

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    2nd

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    fourth

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    Fifth

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    Fifth

  • Anonymous

    23rd, wow im cool,
    suprised people are still watchin housewives, thought that was canned

  • Pantman

    I am shocked at Heroes. It really dipped in season 2 and although it has picked up it cannot be compared to Lost which has not had a sub-standard episode for 2 seasons or so. 24 has been good this year as well. Heroes has been OK at best.

  • Genesis@#eztv

    +Genesis` torrentivo == torrents fulfill the empty promise of cable and satellite tv ¤Oct/18/05¤

  • Anonymous

    “I am shocked at Heroes. It really dipped in season 2 and although it has picked up it cannot be compared to Lost which has not had a sub-standard episode for 2 seasons or so. 24 has been good this year as well. Heroes has been OK at best.”

    Yeah, agreed: Heroes S1 was genuinely great TV … original, insightful and “believable” (as far as if people got superpowers goes, lol) but then S2/Vol2 was slowly went downhill until it was just tripe…

    …except I dont think it’s recovered all that much… the plot got a little better in vol3 but it’s still really unfocused and all over the place and not “beleivable” anymore (a senator talks down a suicide bomber … FFS). And the special effects budget appears to be extremely low: rewatch the plane crash scene from Vol.3 again, the aftermath is just weak looking.

    So it’s surprising to see it at No.1, however I guess many people are like me, once they start watching something they continue to the bitter end, LOL.

    Shows I’m enjoying ATM that aren’t on the Top.10:

    Breaking Bad S2 (watch it from the beginning of S1 if you watch, it’s highly serialised), highly recommended.

    American Dad

    The Simpsons (surprising not to see this in the list)

    Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities

    Skins (S3 finished last week, here’s hoping there’s more)

  • Feruken

    Oh cool, I like the word share much better. =D

  • Sinbad

    I’ve been one of the Family Guy downloads, the new episodes are good and bad here and there but still make me laugh like crazy.

    Reaper should be up there, but the story is going… off…

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  • Heroes lost me

    Can’t believe people still watch Heroes.

    This last season has no purpose, the writers ran out of ideas it seems.

  • http://www.tips-box.blogspot.com

    thanks foe the review
    of course heroes will lead the show coz a lot of minds still empty

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  • Izkata

    I can’t help but wonder HOW TF is keeping track of the “Most Downloads – All Episodes” table. Heroes skips 1 week and drops down to number 4? Looking at the table above it, Heroes and Lost both do consistently well enough that skipping a single week shouldn’t cause them to drop at all…

  • Big pimpin

    One word. DollHouse. Or two words if you put the space in between them.

  • DOLLHOUSE

    I agree, Eliza Dushku was right E06 was where it picked up for me. I was unsure the cuz I saw E01, and 3, but missed 2 so I waited until 6 came out then d/l them all and watched them all back to back.

    It’s going to be a good show to keep an eye on, especially with a lot of others wrapping up soon.

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  • paula

    This is really wonderful.But I have seen something more interesting on kissBBW.c o m. last week.

  • ossumguywill

    The DMCA tracked a heroes torrent, and someone downloaded it on my school’s IP address. Now their getting their panties in a knot and sending us loads of threatening letters and wanting to bill us. Its not even against the law.

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