Viewing figures for TIE'86?

[peterb]

Anyone know these?

[stantheman]

Channel 4, so I'm guessing around the 4 million mark. That is purely guess work, I hasten to add.

Seems my guess was a tad generous. It kicked off with an audience of just over 2.5m. I think you can add at least another half million for the final episode(s)

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/08/tv-ratings-this-is-england

[PatrickCoyle]

From the Guardian...

Episode 1

Channel 4's new Shane Meadows drama, This is England '86, made a promising debut with just over 2.5 million viewers last night, Tuesday 7 September.

This is England '86 revisits the lives of the main characters from Meadows's Bafta-winning film This is England three years later and launched last night on the back of significant critical and promotional buzz.

The first instalment of the four-parter averaged 2.542 million viewers and a 14.6% audience share on Channel 4 from 10pm. A further 310,000 (3.5%) watched an hour later on Channel 4 +1.

Channel 4's new drama also encouraging built on the audience inherited from Ultimate Big Brother, which averaged 2.152 million (9.3%, C4+1 473,000/2.7%) from 9pm.

If the C4+1 figure is included, the launch of This is England '86 bettered the debut episodes of Queer As Folk (2.3 million), Teachers (2.5 million), No Angels (2.6 million) and Shameless (2.6 million). All these came before Channel 4 +1 launched.

The drama was 38% up on the average Channel 4 audience for the slot and drew a 31% share of viewing among 16-34 year olds.

Episode 2

Channel 4

10pm: This Is England '86 - 1.878 million/10.8%, C4+1 328,000/3.7%

Episode 3

Channel 4

10pm: This is England '86 - 2.061 million/11.9%, C4+1 406,000/4.6%

Episode 4

Channel 4's Shane Meadows drama This Is England '86 concluded with 2.112 million viewers (12.3%, C4 +1 317,000/3.6%) from 10pm.

[DeLarge]

So by the end they'd decreased? Ironic as the series got better.
Very, very good viewing figures by all accounts though.

[Dave]

Sept 30, 2010 21:42:39 GMT DeLarge said:

So by the end they'd decreased? Ironic as the series got better.
Very, very good viewing figures by all accounts though.

Am I looking at different figures to you? Surely they increased with every episode.

GCSE Maths paper is coming back to haunt me!

[DeLarge]

Maybe it's me then. Math's wasn't my strongest subject. But that's why they invented calculators. Sorry I'm reading that the first had the highest unique figures (ignore plus 1) and higher than the last episode - hence by the conclusion they'd decreased.
The second dropped then they went back up again is what I can see, but the last still had less people watching than the opening one, unless of course I've read it horribly wrong/being really thick.

I'd expect that anyway, thick divs watching it, blissfully unaware of what it is and what it followed and switching off because they didn't get it.

[kelpie]

C4 does not have the same viewing figures as BBC or ITV though. Was this not quite healthy for a C4 drama of this nature?

I don't really know much about this kind of thing.

[peterb]

That's great news. It should bode well for funding of further projects then. fingers crossed.

[lemonade]

"Viewing Figures" are only useful in their own individual context. I think the audience share is much more useful information.

"The first instalment of the four-parter averaged 2.542 million viewers and a 14.6% audience share on Channel 4 from 10pm"

So almost 15% of everyone watching TV in the United Kingdom were watching TIE86 (1st episode). That is fantastic, given in todays age we live in a multi-channel environment, where most homes have 200+ channels at their fingertips.

[Dave]

Sept 30, 2010 22:07:54 GMT DeLarge said:

Maybe it's me then. Math's wasn't my strongest subject. But that's why they invented calculators. Sorry I'm reading that the first had the highest unique figures (ignore plus 1) and higher than the last episode - hence by the conclusion they'd decreased.
The second dropped then they went back up again is what I can see, but the last still had less people watching than the opening one, unless of course I've read it horribly wrong/being really thick.

I'd expect that anyway, thick divs watching it, blissfully unaware of what it is and what it followed and switching off because they didn't get it.

Oh yeah, the first episode figures were higher. Where's my Texas Instrument when I need it??