The dramatic episodes which brought about the death of Des Barnes have helped Coronation Street raise its viewing figures. When push came to shove – Des being the one who was shoved – over 18 and a half million people tuned in to both Monday’s and Wednesday’s episodes. The whole storyline enabled ITV’s number one soap to once again grab the first four programmes on the top thirty list.
ITV’s latest factual commission must have been made with the old proviso that sex sells. It was hardly surprising then to see that one of the few pre-10.40pm ITV documentaries, Vice: The Sex Trade, pulled in the viewers. Obviously, 10.58 million people tuned in to the programme to see an interesting and informative discussion on vice and how it affects those involved, rather than hope that there could be a chance of any gratuitous shots of naked flesh. If that’s what they were after then Channel 4’s The Anatomy of Desire was definitely the programme to watch, which started an hour later and attracted an audience of 3.1 million.
Channel 4’s new cookery programme Italian Kitchen Two has got off to a solid start, attracting 1.34 million viewers to its first edition. This is considerably less than the audience for Delia’s How to Boil Water, sorry Delia’s How to Cook, which had 4.32 million people having their intelligence insulted.
Reviewer: Simon Wright
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