Showing something of a return to past glories ITV’s The Bill, which had three feature-length episodes this week, increased its audiences by around three million. The Tuesday, Thursday and Friday episodes were watched by audiences of 9.09, 8.36 and 9.54 million respectively.
In the last week before the new television schedules were shown to the public, ITV seems to have taken the opportunity roll out the guaranteed rating winners. Missing its traditional bank holiday slot by a week, the James Bond film Licence To Kill pulled in 8.19 million viewers, the tenth Alright On The Night had 7.89 million viewers and Police, Camera, Action was watched by 8.25 million people.
Meanwhile the never ending trend in docu-soaps goes that one step too far (for me anyway) by showing the two vets featured in Vets In Practice getting married and another two on holiday. On Tuesday 9.02 million people watched the happy couple get hitched, while Thursday’s holiday excursion was watched by 6.37 million people.
On the anniversary weekend of Princess Diana’s death, there were, perhaps surprisingly, very few primetime programmes devoted to her memory. The Unseen Diana shown on Sunday was only watched by 6.86 million viewers, compared to the Micheal Douglas film The American President which started at the same time but had a bigger audience at 7.24 million.
Reviewer: Simon Wright
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