TV Viewing Summary W/E 13/04/97

The listings asked: ‘Will Derek make it home in time for Mavis’s party?’, and this was enough to rocket The Street in to the number one spot, beginning the week with 16.37 million. The Street had a clear win over the Square, Eastenders peaked at 15.02 million.

Moving down to South London, Delboy’s popularity once again proved to be unbeaten when the several times repeated Cash and Curry episode from the first series attracted 7.62 million fans.

12.02 million people tuned into cheer on their nags as the Grand National finally got under way on Monday. The nation’s gamblers managed to take the race in to the top ten. It was a good week for sport all round, the Champions League Live match where Dortmund took on Man United had 10.29 million armchair supporters. Liverpool failed to attract this much support when they played Paris St Gemain, but just over 8 million people stayed in to watch the match.

Our new mainstream commercial Channel 5 was still struggling in its second week on air taking a 2.7% viewing share, well below the average share of the two minority terrestrial channels Channel 4 and BBC2. Still, it is early days, 5 still has time to establish itself in the nations TV habits.