As we all know the World Cup ended on Tuesday when, thanks to the actions of one silly little boy, England were knocked out in Round Two. The sad thing is that interest in the World Cup had steadily been growing during the opening matches, with games involving Scotland and Norway, Brazil and Morocco and Italy and Cameroon all getting audiences of over 9˝ million viewers.
The most watched match of the week was England’s opener against Tunisia, which had 11.43 million people crawling out of their sick beds or watching during their exceptionally long lunch breaks (it seems like such a long time ago now).
The World Cup has managed to decimate normal television viewing patterns with only a handful of non-sport or non-soap programmes managing to make the top thirty list. The highest-rated new(ish) programme is Judy Finnigan’s consumer show We Can Work It Out, which got 8.29 million people (eat your heart out Anne Robinson).
Elsewhere on the smaller terrestrial stations, fly-on-the-wall documentary Stags and Hens managed to pull in an impressive 2.16 million viewers for Channel 5, while the last episode of American comedy series Fraiser, on Channel 4, gained 3.06 million viewers.
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Reviewer: Simon Wright
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