BBC Two’s Life in Squares wraps up -60% down from début
Monday evening witnessed ITV’s new holiday show Travel Guides (9pm) take a slight knock, week on week, as the sophomore episode saw the audience suffer despite featuring ‘real’ humans who the viewers can finally relate to.
Last week showed the opinionated households descending upon the Thai island of Koh Samui to dispense their cultivated and vocal judgements where they saw fit, with the second instalment seeing the same groups of TV-ready characters let loose in the unrepressed and ethical paradise of Dubai.
Last week saw 2.7 million viewers tune in out of morbid curiosity to watch ordinary everyday hairdressers Craig and Stewart (also of Coach Trip fame, for those with jobs) boisterously struggle their Thai experience.
Last night saw one of the other normal-everyday-relatable guides ™, Riah (a 21 year old model and actress, with a penchant for body augmentation), experience a spell of confusion over the different cultural boundaries enforced on women, helping to enlighten the show’s 12% audience share.
In total 2.4 million viewers tuned in for yesterday’s second effort at an open-minded foreign adventure, representing a small week on week -9% fall, indicating that the relatively cost effective format might yet prove to be an advisable venture for ITV.
Also caught up in the theme of the great outdoors was the latest manly slice of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (9pm) on Channel 5 as the former Make Me a New Face presenter visited a brave expat making a go of it in French Polynesia, and secured 1.5 million viewers and a 7% share.
Mostly focusing on life indoors was another fun trip to Luton’s most famous police cell in the latest 24 Hours in Police Custody (9pm). Channel 4’s biggest audience of the day – 1.6 million viewers – watched as the exhausted Bedfordshire coppers attempted to extract some information from two knife-wielding friends in cahoots, resulting in an 8% share.
Over on BBC Two, the third and final episode of the Bloomsbury Group-focused Life in Squares (9pm) ditched the dark and smoky rooms for picturesque East Sussex.
Two weeks ago, the self-involved tale of the darlings of WC1 netted 1.9 million, with last night’s finale seeing a staggering -60% fall in viewers.
Yesterday saw just 757,000 viewers watch as Vanessa Bell’s unorthodox early life decisions meant she had a lot of explaining to do, resulting in a 4% share.
BBC One dedicated its evening schedule to kicking off another play through of the divisive third series of Sherlock (8pm). The Empty Hearse originally aired on New Years Day 2014 and after an agonising two year wait finally explained how the sleuthing hero actually survived that fall.
[advert position=”left”]Last night’s repeat brought in 2.7 million viewers and a 13% share and successfully managed to secure the 9pm slot for BBC One.
Earlier in the day Emmerdale‘s (ITV, 7pm) disaster week clean-up was watched by 6.3 million viewers and a 35% share while BBC One’s EastEnders (8pm) brought in 6.2 million viewers and a 30% share and (presumably) featured more scenes of Jane Beale crying.
A double dollop of Coronation Street (ITV) scored the top two spots with the 7pm showing watched by 7 million viewers and a 37% share, falling to 6.8 million viewers and a 32% share at 8:30pm.
Vet School (8pm) was thrown in between for good measure and netted 2.4 million viewers and a 12% share for ITV.
Naturally BBC Two had something a little more highbrow on offer to compensate for the serialised teatime misery flooding the mainstream channels, with University Challenge (8pm) netting 2.8 million viewers, followed by Only Connect with 2 million viewers and a 10% share.
On Channel 4, Flying to the Ends of the Earth (8pm) attracted 1 million viewers, while not quite as far reaching was Channel 5’s concurrent effort Stop! Roadworks Ahead (8pm), which netted 813,000 viewers.
Elsewhere in the netherworld of multi-screening, as minuscule as the audience may have been for the début of Made in Chelsea LA (E4, 9pm), their constant digital chatter helped the show top the day’s Twitter chart.
375,000 viewers tuned in to see the moneyed empty vessels do their thing in an even more vacant climate, resulting in 17.7 thousand tweets.
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